Brand new to 2015 AutoCAD Mechanical and lost

[YARGNAIRB]

Not new to AutoCAD Mechanical, but brand new to 2015 Mechanical and lost. Why am I only able to copy one entity at a time? Also, I can't get my quickcalc to expand height-wise. It's collapsed to the point that I can't read parts of it and I've tried everything I know to pull it down. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[acwtzwegers]

On average: The autoCAD Mechanical "Power" tools will only work on 1 object at a time, and will not (truely) accept pre-selection.

This means that if you use the "powercopy" (ampowercopy), it will only work on 1 object at a time (or will use the last object of a pre-selected group).

The same applies to the power explode, delete etc.

The "power" bit on the name is however not fully ironic: these functions are meant to deal with the particular Mechanical objects and situations (like hidden parts of lines behind a mechanical content object)

When you are working with non-mechanical objects (like regular lines etc), use the regular autocad fuctions, like "copy" (the icons in the ribbon without a lightning bolt) to get the behaviour that you are used to.

[YARGNAIRB]

Thank You So Much ACWT, your explanation helped me figure things out that weren't making sense to me. Your help is greatly appreciated!