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How to

This section describes how to perform some tasks which are not covered by the User Manual nor by the User Guides.

How to copy entities from drawing A to drawing B?

Quite often we need to copy some part of a drawing A and paste it in a drawing B. It is not difficult provided the user knows that both drawings must be opened in the same LibreCAD session.

In the example below, each layer has a specified color in order to better visualize what happens. In drawing A, there are 3 layers (layer1, layer2, layer3) showing rectangles and in drawing B there are also 3 layers (layer1, layer2, layer4) showing circles. Each layer has its own color for the sake of clarity. Let us say that we want to copy the green and red rectangles from drawing A to drawing B. The steps are :

  1. Launch LibreCAD.
  2. Open drawing A.Drawing A
  3. Open drawing B without launching a second time LibreCAD.Drawing B
  4. Go to drawing A window, select the green and red rectangles, click on Copy icon or press CTRL+C and define a reference point.
  5. Go to drawing B window, click on Paste icon or press CTRL+V and define a reference point. That's it !Drawing B after pasting the rectangles

Note that LibreCAD moved the green rectangles of layer 2 in drawing A to the same layer2 in drawing B : so the green rectangles and circles now have the same layer.

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