Mastering Revit Architecture 2010 - Ch. 3 Know Your Editing Tools - Copying and Pasting

Mastering Revit Architecture 2010 - Ch. 3 Know Your Editing Tools - Copying and Pasting

"...copy and paste interaction (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V)."

"To copy any element to the clipboard, select it and press Ctrl+C."

"To paste, press Ctrl+V. ...majority of cases, Revit pastes the elements with a dashed bounding box around them. You then determine where to place the elements by clicking a point to define its position of placement. In the Options bar you will find an option called Constrain that when checked will only let you define the location of the copied element relative to the main constrain directions of the original element."

"Paste Aligned - ...you can paste... into other views with a variety of options. This allows you to quickly duplicate elements from one view to another...while maintaining a consistent location in the X–Y coordinate plane. After selecting elements and copying them to the clipboard using either Ctrl+C or the Copy button in the Clipboard Panel of the Modify tab, choose Edit  Paste Aligned from the main menu..."

"Five options are available. Depending on the view from which you copy and what elements

you copy, the availability of these options will change."

1. "Select Levels - This is a mode you can use to copy and paste elements between different levels. ...select the elements and choose this option, you choose levels from a list in a dialog box, and you can paste to multiple levels at once. ...X–Y position of the selected elements is maintained..."

2. "Select Views - ...allows you to copy elements to other views by selecting views from a list of views in a dialog box. In the list available for selection, you don’t see levels listed but rather a list of parallel views. For example, if elements are copied from a plan view, all other plan views are listed. Likewise, if you copy from an elevation view, only elevation views appear as possible views to paste into."

3. "Current View - ...pastes the elements from the clipboard into the currently active view, in the same relative spatial location. For example, if you copy a series of walls in one view, switch to another view in the Project Browser, and choose Current View, Revit pastes the walls into exactly the same X–Y locations in the new view you switched to."

4. "Same Place - ...places an element from the clipboard in the exact same place from which it was copied or cut. One use for this tool is copying elements into a design option"

5. "Pick Level Graphics - ...use to copy and paste elements between different floors. Once you select the elements and choose this option, you’re placed into a pick mode where you can select a level in section or elevation. You must be in an elevation or section view to have this option available. The level you select determines the Z location of the paste and preserves the X–Y location."

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