You can't paste a copied item when a view is selected or if the cursor in off the sheet.
This is annoying, and it should matter where your cursor is or what you have selected, a CTRL+C operation should initiate a paste.
Hi Andrew,
Indeed, the behavior is not reasonable. Ctrl+V should always be pasting if there is something to paste. I guess the clipboard was cleared after something is selected. I cannot explain the behavior. I will work with project team to understand the behavior better.
Many thanks!
The drawing view is an entity in Inventor. If you hover over it and right click you will only receive view sensitive commands. You can easily paste your weld symbol anywhere on the drawing sheet, except the view, and then place it on the view with an automatic snap. As far as pasting anything outside the paper, this is not allowed by design. Since everything outside of the paper border does not plot, there is little reason to paste anything there so it is not allowed. You can drag entities outside the paper if you want if you want to keep it with the drawing but not be available to plot.
John Hackney, Retired
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@jhackney1972 wrote:
Since everything outside of the paper border does not plot, there is little reason to paste anything there so it is not allowed.
I disagree.
I know that it won't show up in a plot, but if i'm hammering out a drawing set I should be able to set up the views wherever I want and then worry about their position on the paper space afterwards.
Welding symbols are only going to be placed on lines inside a view, so it makes sense that as soon as you hit CTRL+V everything becomes un-selected and the item in your clipboard is ready to be placed.
This is about efficiency and consistency when making drawings. Making drawings as fast as possible is the name of the game.
@andrewdroth wrote:
This is about efficiency and consistency when making drawings. Making drawings as fast as possible is the name of the game.
And on the 8th day, God created programming languages.
But seriously.... If you want efficiency and speed, customizing the tools using a programming language OR developing workflows and techniques that are compatible with EXISTING functionality will probably get you further than being at the mercy of another organization's schedule.
MechMachineMan wrote:
But seriously.... If you want efficiency and speed, customizing the tools using a programming language OR developing workflows and techniques that are compatible with EXISTING functionality will probably get you further than being at the mercy of another organization's schedule.
Word!
