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Undo, copy and paste
| Ctrl/Cmd + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z | Redo |
| Ctrl/Cmd + C | Copy |
| Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C | Copy with constraints |
| Ctrl/Cmd + V | Paste, 10 mm up and right |
| Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + V | Paste with constraints |
| Ctrl/Cmd + D | Duplicate, 10 mm up and right |
| Delete or Backspace | Delete the selection |
All of these work anywhere in the app, except while you are typing in a field, where the field keeps them for its own text.
They are also in the context menu, on a right click or a half-second press.
Where undo does not reach
Worth reading before you rely on it.
Undo covers the sketch. Geometry, constraints, dimension values, drags, and document loads.
Undo does not cover:
- Creating or removing an extrude
- Creating or removing a blend
- Part colours
- Where you dragged a dimension annotation
- The feature-list and blend wipe that Clear performs
Deleting a feature or a blend is permanent. There is no getting it back except by making it again.
Undo resets when you switch sketches. Clicking another timeline row, pressing New body, pressing Sketch on face, or importing all clear both undo and redo. Finish what you are doing first.
The history holds a hundred steps.
Copy and paste
Copying takes the selected curves and the points they need, endpoints and centres, plus every constraint that lives entirely inside the selection. A constraint tying your selection to something outside it is not copied, because there would be nothing for it to tie to.
Repeated pastes stair-step, each 10 mm further up and right, so a row of features is a matter of pressing Ctrl+V a few times.
With or without the constraints
The copied constraints are only applied if you ask for it, which gives you two outcomes from the same selection.
| Result | |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V | Loose geometry. Shared endpoints survive; the constraints do not |
| Ctrl+Shift+C then Ctrl+V | A constrained copy |
| Either copy, then Ctrl+Shift+V | A constrained copy |
A plain paste honours how the copy was taken. Copy with constraints once and every subsequent plain paste stays constrained, which suits placing the same feature repeatedly. Ctrl+Shift+V asks for them outright, whatever the copy was.
A fully dimensioned bolt hole pasted with constraints arrives fully dimensioned. The same hole pasted loose gives you the shape and nothing holding it, which is the better starting point when the copy is going to change.
Both variants are in the context menu as Copy with constraints and Paste with constraints.
Duplicate with constraints
Duplicate is copy and paste in one step. Its constrained variant is in the context menu only, with no shortcut of its own.
Use it when the copy should keep its shape, and plain Ctrl+D when you want the geometry as a loose starting point.
The context menu
Right click, or press for half a second. It carries: select mode, undo, redo, select all, delete, copy, copy with constraints, paste, paste with constraints, duplicate, duplicate with constraints, add midpoint, the centring commands, the grid snap toggle, and every constraint available for the current selection.
Esc or a click outside closes it.