COPY — Copy

Copies objects from a base point to another point.

Command: COPY · Global name: _COPY · Alias: CO, CP
Ribbon: Home › Modify
Menu: Modify
Toolbar: Modify

Copies the selected objects from a base point to one or more destination points. Each point you specify creates a new copy; the originals do not change.

Usage

Enter COPY (or CO, CP) or click Copy on the ribbon.
Select the objects and press Enter. If they were already selected before starting the command, they are used without asking.

Select objects:

Specify the base point.

Specify base point or [Displacement/mOde] <Displacement>:

Specify the destination point. A copy is created and the prompt repeats to make another one from the same base point.

Specify second point or [Array] <use first point as displacement>:

Press Enter, Space or Esc to finish.

Notes

As in AutoCAD, copying is multiple: the command keeps asking for destinations until you finish it.
Destinations can be typed as relative or polar coordinates from the base point, or as a distance in the direction of the cursor.
In 3D points accept Z (x,y,z, @dx,dy,dz), as in MOVE: the copy is raised or lowered.
Grips copy too: in any mode (stretch, move, rotate, scale, mirror) choose Copy (C) and each point leaves a copy.
There is no Array option as in AutoCAD; for copies in rows, columns or around a circle use ARRAY.
To copy between drawings use COPYCLIP and PASTECLIP.
AutoCAD's Displacement, mOde and Undo options are not available.

Options: Displacement (a vector, a single copy), mOde (Single or Multiple, variable COPYMODE), Array (number of items and second point; with Fit the point is the last item), Exit and Undo (removes the last copy or array). Enter at the first second point uses the base point as displacement.

COPY — Copy

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