copy/paste within drawings

Unknown said:

I cant copy items between Microstation drawings, only pic I can paste, please advice how to fix issue.

Your thinking like your in acad stop it!

open the destination drawing  

open the reference manager  ( quick keyin from the command line  RF=  <then hit enter>  

now browse to the source file and ref attach it  select the items you want to copy  in the view , choose  copy and drop it ontop or where ever you want .. detach ref .. 

Easy peasy  especially if you want it in same coordinates ...

Microstation works in the same universe as ACAD. Once pasting in coordinates makes sense, it makes sense in ACAD and MSTN as well. The fact that it is not possible in MSTN is its failure, not that user should stop thinking like in ACAD. Your procedure takes minutes, pasting to coordinates takes second. Why should it take minutes when it can take a second (if MSTN added one icon to do so)....

yes but the situation is that you can now use ctrlcctrlv but there is missing option/icon/shortcut to place it in orig coordinates. this is just matter of missing functionality, not debate about different approaches. solution to this is to implement this simple thing. thats it

Hi Ivan,

Ivan Galik said:

this is just matter of missing functionality, not debate about different approaches.

maybe, instead of reopening 4 years old discussion (the best practices is clear in this case: do not do it, ask again, in context of the current version), and trying to convince users to use MicroStation as AutoCAD (because it automatically leads to unproductive opinion-based discussions), I recommend to search existing forums for discussions, where this functionality was discussed in the past. It will give you a good insight what both users and Bentley thing about it ;-)

And, when it's so important for you (it's low priority nice-to-have feature for me, and my customers do not ask for it at all, so it really depends on user and situation), use Ideas section to add your request to this pool. I did not find this topic in existing ideas, so there is a chance to add new idea. At least, it will be recorded and other users can comment and vote for/against it.

Regards,

  Jan

That would be a new topic. The OP asked only about CTRL+C/CTRL+V, not an enhancement.

If it's not recommended then why was it added to the ribbon in connect?

It's not something that I do often, but if you have to make a small identical change to lots of drawings (ie adding the same revision note to multiple sheets), copy paste is far quicker than attaching a reference and copying from file

Anyway.....

Select your elements, Place a tentative point on File Origin, or on common insertion point > Ctrl+C to copy elements. 

open next file, Ctrl+V to place using the insertion point you created in step 1(if this doesn't work as for some reason odd elements do not like it then use paste elements to file command from ribbon). not quite paste in place but just as handy if you have common elements like a grid in every file you want to paste to. If you really need to copy in place to same coordinates have have no reference point, then place your tentative point at 0,0. 

You could record a macro of yourself pasting into the new file at 0,0, and you can then batch the macro. 

I am doing it that way as well. I had issues though with colours often being changed when pasting. (We have different color tables on files of different sources...)

I am also alternatively creating intermediate cell libraries to place stuff to other files (seems to be not too much effort especially if you want to use the stuff a bit later as well. That has the benefit that you have a precise insertion point defined ...
/As said before you have to always count for the time that you need to open the file to copy from.

I am doing it that way as well. I had issues though with colours often being changed when pasting. (We have different color tables on files of different sources...)

I am also alternatively creating intermediate cell libraries to place stuff to other files (seems to be not too much effort especially if you want to use the stuff a bit later as well. That has the benefit that you have a precise insertion point defined ...
/As said before you have to always count for the time that you need to open the file to copy from.