T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Moving and Copying Drawing Elements. Arrays. Use of Clipboard
The associative copies created using the copying commands are edited by the command “EY: Edit Copy
Operations”. The command can be called by one of the following means:
Keyboard Textual Menu Icon
“Edit|Draw|Copy”
Upon calling the command, select the copies to be edited. To select one copy, you can use . Multiple
selection can be done by box selection or selection by + , + or by the automenu
option:
Select All Elements
When the copies are selected, both the selected and the original elements are highlighted, as well is the
transformation vector (or the attachment point in the cases of scaling, rotating or creating a circular array).
Upon multiple selection of copies or arrays, the option is available in the automenu:
Delete selected Element(s)
Selection of a single copy or array makes the following options available in the automenu:
Finish Editing
Set selected Element(s) Parameters
Explode Copy
Explode Copy keeping relations
Select Clipping Hatch (available only for translated,
rotated and scaled copies)
Cancel selection of clipping Hatch (available only for
copies clipped by a hatch)
Edit copied elements list
Select Other Element
Delete selected Element(s)
When selecting a copy (an array), the property window displays the dialog for editing the copy parameters,
similar to that used at the time of the copy creation. It allows modifying the copy parameters. You can use
the parameters dialog box for this purpose as well, called using the option .
The two options - and - are provided for breaking up copies, that is, for converting those into a set
of independent elements. The copy (array) itself as a T-FLEX CAD element is deleted at this moment. The
result of applying these options corresponds with the respective modes of the copy (array) creation. To delete
a copy altogether, you can use the option .
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