Shift to Copy in Grips gone ?

[eamon.fleming]

Is the Shift to Copy shortcut in grips gone in 2006? I have looked in help & didn't see anything that would toggle this?

I use this a bazillion tines a day, can anyone help me before my shift key freezes up :screwy:

thx in advance

UPDATE...I have discovered Shift has been replaced with Ctrl in the Grips shortcut.

This works the same as Shift did previously.


Eamon

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Check out this (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?p=102963#post102963) post and link "AutoCAD Tips for Speedy Move or Copy by Lynn Allen" within.

Have a good one, Mike

[eamon.fleming]

Thanks for the link Mike, I had seen this before.

I guess I'll have to retrain my self to the new way.:Oops:

I wonder why they dropped the Shift thing in grips? it has been there since the begining of grips

Eamon

[RobertB]

Thanks for the link Mike, I had seen this before.

I guess I'll have to retrain my self to the new way.:Oops:

I wonder why they dropped the Shift thing in grips? it has been there since the begining of gripsLikely to make room for the temporary overrides feature.

[eamon.fleming]

Ok after trying the new way I remembered why I didn't use it in 2005, you can't enter a distance. It's only good for a "quick copy" that you have to move after to make it presice.

With the old Shift feature I could pick entities for my distance & hold down the shift after the inital copy to array the same distance.

Robert what is this temporary overrides you speak of?

Eamon

[RobertB]

Robert what is this temporary overrides you speak of?
As a sample:
Turn on OrthoMode.
Start the Line command.
While you are dragging the crosshairs around note how you are constrained to ortho directions.
Now hold the <Shift> key down while dragging. Note how ortho has been temporarily overridden.
Release <Shift> to return Ortho back to its initial state.

There are many other temporary overrides. Read up on them in the New Features Workshop (Manage/Customization and Migration) and in the help files.

[eamon.fleming]

thanks Robert I had forgotten about this new feature

Eamon