topic Re: Drawing custom symbols won't copy/paste between drawings in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Drawing custom symbols won't copy/paste between drawings

aleksei_ovsienko — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:52:47 GMT

So Fusion has introduced creating and importing custom symbols. However!
I can't see a way to save the symbols I created for one drawing anywhere outside of that drawing. I'd like to have a library of those symbols that I could share with colleagues and use across my drawings.
Right now an attempt to copy and paste a symbol from one drawing to another results in something very weird.
Instead of a symbol being pasted, an annotation saying "Qty" appears.

What is the point of having custom symbols if they are enrirely not shareable? I could ofcourse use an external svg library of symbols but that would require me to use a different piece of software to create them.

Can we please be able to save symbols to a library/favourites and re-use them?

Re: Drawing custom symbols won't copy/paste between drawings

bwalker145 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:04:18 GMT

I ended up creating a separate drawing specifically for storing custom symbols, and just import the symbols from that file into our drawing templates when changes are made.

Definitely not ideal, but it's the only way I've found to have a pseudo "central library" of symbols that can be shared.

Re: Drawing custom symbols won't copy/paste between drawings

aleksei_ovsienko — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:32:45 GMT

Oh! I found a way to import them. It's pretty confusing really. I thought "Import" button is to import from outside Fusion and was trying to just copy paste. And Fusion Drawing doesn't like Copy/Pasting.

Re: Drawing custom symbols won't copy/paste between drawings

anirudha_kulkarniHVD7C — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:06:57 GMT

Hello @aleksei_ovsienko Yes, you can use the Import option to bring custom symbols into a drawing. This allows you to insert externally created symbols into the current drawing.However, at this time, directly copying and pasting a custom symbol from one drawing to another is not supported. Your feedback has been noted and shared with the team for consideration in future enhancements.Thank you for taking the time to highlight this.