If I make a window, how can I select all entities inside this window and copy and paste them?
This is actually all my question, because i work with maps and need to fit in parts of hight curves from another file
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If your window is created by making your 2nd click to the right of your 1st click, it will be the type that only selects items fully inside your window (if you first click to right, and the 2nd click is t the left, it will be a "crossing window".
Then there are two ways to copy them. If you use the native BricsCAD copy command (which behaves like AutoCAD.. which proceeded the invention of the Windows software that uses Cntl-C) then you type "copy" and you will be prompted to select the starting point, and then the final location. Note that this must be withing the same drawing and same drawing tab.
The alternative is to use the Windows based copy system. You can simply use Cntl-C. Though, there is a variation in the Edit menu, which permits you to select a base point first. Otherwise the base point is the lower left extreme of the objects. Then you can paste, Cntl-V anywhere that will accept it. This may be another BricsCAD file, or on another tab. Many programs will not recognize the BricsCAD objects in the clipboard, but programs such as MS Word does.
-Joe
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Thank you 😀
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Oo, I never knew Word would acept Brics items - will try that, interesting.
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When you copy things into the Windows clipboard, the actual data put there will vary with the application. Sometimes, in graphics programs, you can get both the line objects, and a pixel image of the area you copied. Then, the application where you are pasting the data may just choose one version of that data, or offer you the choice of the data type.
-Joe
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I should add that there are two general types of pasting an object. One is where the data is truly copied into the application. The other is called OLE… Object Linking and Embedding. For example, you may past from an Excel document, and a raster image of the cells come in. But, if it is done via OLE, you can double-click the image, and it will open the original Excel file, where you can edit it. After editing it, the image in the other application is updated.
In my v14 of Bricscad, pasting from Excel provides a pixel image of the spreadsheet that is so highly pixelated in BricsCAD that it is not really usable.
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I used to write building Spec/Schedule of (i.e. description of) Work in Excel, OLEing into the drawing often multiple instances of the Excel cell containing the code of each work item description, so viewers could either click on an instance to go straight to the Excel entry, or could look it up in a paper copy of the Spec.
Trouble was, as I built up the spec, re-numbering work items as extra Excel line/items got inserted, the OLE link didn't track the line/item's new position in the spreadsheet, but just continued to display in the drawing whatever was now in cell J1 or whatever. So I went back to 'all notes on the drawing', repetitious work.
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