topic Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

gen_bobondeez — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:54:09 GMT

Does anyone know if you can copy and paste text when making a drawing? I'm working on a drawing and I have a bunch of holes to label. It would make my life a lot easier if I could copy and paste the text so I don't have to make a new text box for each hole as a lot of them are the same.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

TimeraAutodesk — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:28:29 GMT

Hi @gen_bobondeez, thanks for posting your question here. Unfortunately, we don't support copy / paste of objects in the Drawings workspace yet. You can, however, copy and paste text from within a text box to another. We have copy / paste of objects (text boxes, leader notes, etc.) on the roadmap for later this year. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes in the meantime.

Best,

Timera

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

gen_bobondeez — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:22:22 GMT

Well I look forward to seeing those features implemented.

Thanks for the reply.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 May 2018 15:45:08 GMT

Really looking forward to seeing some basic nice-to-haves like this, little things that can save a ton of time

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

colinNJB25 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:23:19 GMT

Copying and pasting commonly used tables would be amazing!

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:19:51 GMT

Almost two years later... Well seeing that this feature is not here yet. It is the small things like this that will keep fusion as a great tool, It would not be hard to understand the foundation dimension and labeling of traditional drawings and make a good annotation interface to Fusion.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:14:33 GMT

Hi Timera,

Any progress on this function?

We're just getting into Fusion from SW and noticing a few workflow shortcomings in an otherwise great product, hope they will be available soon!

thanks!

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

gobluejd — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:33:24 GMT

2 years later and you still can not copy and paste. Fusion 360 is so advanced, yet so behind. I cringe when someone asks me for an actual drawing. Drawings in F360 is so painful I typically will export and dimension in Inventor or AutoCad. I tell my boss all the time how wonderful this, yet feel like a total failure when I have to dimension a drawing for him. Sad.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

cycodre — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:33:24 GMT

More development work on the drawing side of things Autodesk! Please! It's so painful to make even a simple drawing to send to manufacturers. The lack of the ability to copy and paste notes that are used throughout my designs is frustrating! SolidWorks is light years ahead of Fusion 360 in this aspect making it a tough sell for anyone to change over.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

marc5KGCS — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:22:18 GMT

Hi there.

I just read this reply that was written in 2017, and as we all know its 2019 already! So i figure that its possible to copy and paste text in a drawing by now? I cant figure out how! Could you please tell me how to get that done?

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

marc5KGCS — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:32:36 GMT

Is there a way to at least make the text size bigger then 0.24in, and so that it stays bigger for the drawing i'm working on? I have to edit it for every text i type and it SUCKS a big bunch!

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

stephenbrucewong — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:26:58 GMT

@marc5KGCS Totes!

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

Careless_ — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 06:36:27 GMT

Can we get copy & paste in F360 drawing module already, please?

This is a total nuisance when copying additional text and information from one drawing to a new updated drawing...

please fix the basics before adding new stuff.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

clkeck — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:11:40 GMT

February of 2020 and still no copy/paste. Come on Autodesk! Fusion seems to update at least once a week. It's time that update had something useful! If it was in your 2017 roadmap then it should have happened by now! Disappointing...

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

Careless_ — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:23:47 GMT

Well they got a whole PCB Design Suite integrated now before a basic Copy & Paste feature, so that's nice.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

g.dlapietra — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:56:53 GMT

It's 2023, and we can't copy and paste? Is this feature difficult to add or no one cares?

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

colinNJB25 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:09:19 GMT

I would really like more copy and paste features. I often am making new revisions of products and need to copy things. Always try ctrl-c and ctrl-v. They work sometimes when there is no right click menu.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

petkusj — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:36:28 GMT

Just to confirm, at least on the Mac version, CMD-C and CMD-V does work to copy and paste text. It's a little tricky to get to work because after pasting, you're immediately in move mode and you'll need to remember to click OK before attempting anything else.

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

jerryNYCB8 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:17:30 GMT

2025 AND STILL NO COPY PASTE FEATURE, LIKE WTF! FUSION HAS BECOME MORE EXPENSIVE, MORE BUGGY AND CANT EVEN GIVE US BASIC OPTIONS IT SHOULD HAVE HAD BACK IN 2017! HURRY UP AND PROVIDE THIS OPTION AUTODESK!!!!

Re: Copy and Paste Text in a Drawing?

jhackney1972 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:41:11 GMT

I am using Windows as my operating system and I can Copy and Paste into many Fusion Drawing functions like Leader Text, Text Boxes and Custom Tables. Please give an example of your needs.

(view in My Videos)