Quick Tip: How to Paste to Original Coordinates
If you’ve ever had to lay out phased space plans or have multiple drawings that are just marginally different, the ‘Paste to Original Coordinates’ feature is quite the helper. I covered this years ago in Michael’s Corner, but a few weeks ago one of my students in Manila asked a question where I knew this could be applied, and she was quite pleased!
Setup
The optimum application is for floor plans that are duplicates, or that have a common footprint between drawings. After opening the drawings you want to copy objects between, it would be optimal if you tiled the drawings. On the View tab >Interface panel is the Tile Vertically button that I’ll use in the following exercise.
Memo: When you look at your View tab, the Interface tab is at the end … and probably not near the View tab as you see in the figure. I repositioned the tab by clicking on the panel title and dragging it to a position closer to the View tab to economize my screen capture size.
Key Feature
Most of the time you highlight, left-click, then drag. The Paste to Orig Coords option is only available on the shortcut menu when you use a right-click/drag/release action.
How to Drag ‘n Paste to Original Coordinates
1. Open the drawings you want to copy and paste between, then tile them.
2. With no command active, select the objects to be copied and they will highlight. [See tip below for the highlight options.]
3. Now right-click on the selected objects and drag them anywhere into the other drawing and release your mouse to display the shortcut menu.
4. Click Paste to Orig Coords and you’re finished!
Gold Star Tip: SELECTIONEFFECT. The variable that allows you to switch between the new A2015 ‘Neon’ highlight <1> versus the old dotted object highlight <0>. You’re welcome.
Thank you!
As I sign off on my last AUGIWORLD article, I want to thank Curt Moreno for inviting me to contribute to this timely and broadly informative publication a couple years ago. I also want to thank those of you who have reached out to me with encouraging words and kudos. It has been a privilege to have this forum to pass along a few things that I hope you have found to be helpful.
