I need to be able to copy a drawing sheet into the same drawing

[Anonymous]

I have a sheet in a .idw that i want to copy into the same .idw.  That way I don't have to readd all the notes and symbols i have placed on the sheet. 

[dan_szymanski]

Accepted idea [438]. Thanks!

[laptop_geek]

How was this accepted 4 minutes after it was posted with no votes and ideas that have 30-50 votes have not gone anywhere?

[karthur1]

The copy sheet function is already in Inventor. Was new in version 2013 (i think). Dan may not have the way to label a suggestion "Already Exists".

[Anonymous]

The ability to copy is there, but you are not able to paste back into the same .IDW.

[rjay75]

Until it is added here's a blog post of mine that has an iLogic rule to do this. (It also asks to select a file to replace part references as well, but you can just select the same part if it doesn't need to be replaced.

http://www.jaytekdev.com/ilogic-tools/blog/copy-and-replace-drawing-sheet-reference

[barry.ashcroft]

just copy and paste the sheet into new drawing and change the model reference if necessary

[kmeldfreyssinet]

Hi,

It is possible to copy / past sheet from one idw to another one. But it is not possible to do this operation in a single idw. I would very much use this function.

Make it possible to copy / past sheet within single .idw file.

Cris.

[stuartmp]

I completely agree, I need this all the time and have written some VBA to do it for now.

Before that I just copied the sheet to another drawing then copied it back again.

Great Idea

[DRoam]

Duplicate: allow to coppy sheet in single idw

[ronald_plesh]

This is crazy.  How can this not be an option?  I have to copy the sheet into some new drawing and then copy it back?  Come on AutoDesk, do better.  We all know you can.  Its almost as bad as not have spell check.  Almost.

[dan_szymanski]

We are refining procedures around idea status.  Changing this to Future Consideration.

[bcrowell]

This is absolutely necessary.  I was really hoping to find out that 2019 was the version we got this feature, and am more than a bit disheartened to see that this was posted in 2014, accepted in minutes and four years later is still not done.

The workaround steps are somewhat ridiculous: Copy Sheet. Create New File. New Drawing. Paste Sheet in New Drawing. Copy Sheet in New Drawing. Go back to original drawing. Paste.

All instead of Copy, Paste.

[stuartmp]

I can write a macro for you no problem.

[bcrowell]

I definitely need to get back to macros because we have several repetitive tasks for our drawings and parts.

[david.keating]

It would be good to be able to duplicate existing sheets in an Inventor drawing.  Currently, this can only be accomplished by copying sheet to a new drawing and then copying it back to the drawing of interest. should be able to duplicate sheet in right-click drop-down menu.

[carl.hirst]

I Suggested this myself a while back, but didn't receive a great deal of support for it, would be covenant but there are work arounds for this.

Got my vote though would like this little extra convenience

[Anonymous]

Inventor should provide a check in option during change of units permiting the drawing to scale automatically with dimentions. i.e, if a line of 10mm is drawn, when units are changed to inches the drawing should get a check in permisivity to change its scale to 10inches 

[leowarren34]

I will always vote for convience and why waste my time and effort?

[jtylerbc]

This isn't something I've needed to do that often.  But when I have needed it, the necessary workaround was really annoying.  Voted because this is a seemingly unnecessary, silly limitation.

[leowarren34]

Inventor is full of workarounds because if everything worked as we wanted we wanted, I wouldnt hold my breath but hopefully Aaron/whoever makes a trip about the ideas soon.