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Paste elements at same graphical location
Original Tip Date:
Oct. 31, 2002
Paste elements at same graphical location
If you like to copy/paste elements from one file to another, here's a cool tip to control the placement location:
By default MicroStation uses the center of the selected elements range when pasting elements via the system clipboard. To change this, select the element(s) you want to copy and snap, but don't accept the location you want to use as the insertion point. This point is known as the
Ninja Point
. No joke. :-)
Then select
Edit > Copy
or keyin
CTRL+C
.
Pop over to the over file and select
Edit > Paste
or keyin
CTRL+V
. The snap point from above is now the insertion point for your paste operation. As you can see in the clip below, using a common location such as the corner of a border, makes pasting elements at the same coordinates a simple task.
Thanks to
Sean Forward
for this tip.
AskInga Tip #230
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Created by
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Tue, Jun 17 2008 12:40 PM
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