Default location when pasting into a view

[iru69]

There are times when pasting into a view that "Paste Aligned" is NOT available as an option.

So, when using a simple "Paste from Clipboard" into a view, Revit seems to offer a "default" location for what I'm pasting (marked by green crosshairs).

Intuitively, I hit enter, hoping to select the default location for my paste, but it doesn't do anything.

I end up zooming in and trying to line up what I'm pasting with the "default" location and then click the mouse, but it never lines up exactly.

Is there a way to get it to paste in that "default" location?

[comhasse]

There are times when pasting into a view that "Paste Aligned" is NOT available as an option.

So, when using a simple "Paste from Clipboard" into a view, Revit seems to offer a "default" location for what I'm pasting (marked by green crosshairs).

Intuitively, I hit enter, hoping to select the default location for my paste, but it doesn't do anything.

I end up zooming in and trying to line up what I'm pasting with the "default" location and then click the mouse, but it never lines up exactly.

Is there a way to get it to paste in that "default" location?
From what i remember you can enter "0", then hit enter and then click anywhere (not quite sure about that anymore) and it will paste in that default location. I think if you move the object away from the initial location horizontally or vertically revit displays a temporary dimension so by entering zero, you are overwriting that dimension.

[iru69]

Thanks, but unfortunately that doesn't appear to work.

No temporary dimensions appear.

[dbaldacchino]

There are cases where the temp dims appear, in wich case you can enter 0 and you're good. But in other cases, there seems to be no way of just pasting in the default; eyeballing seems to be the only way.

[iru69]

Thanks.

Just one of those little things that bugs me every time (e.g. I try to paste notes from one legend to another legend), and I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something really simple.

[ws]

How about using 'mousekeys' ?

Sounds like what you need is a left click without moving the mouse pointer - or have I picked this up wrong (I can't quite replicate copy and pasting with a default location at the moment).

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/access_mousekeys_howtoclick.mspx?mfr=true
It uses the numpad instead of a mouse and can be turned off and on.

Just a thought ;)

[iru69]

Nice try; the mousekeys is interesting (didn't even know about that), but doesn't solve the issue.

If you want to try an extremely simple example, create a legend view, draw a square box using some detail lines, then copy and paste the box into a different legend view.

Thanks for all the suggestions, but obviously it can't be done. I think that's all she wrote.

[dick.dudley]

Yeah, I was having the same problem with pasting from one legend to another.

It's disappointing there is still no solution to this... :cry: