continuous copy

[stacey.90448]

Does anyone know if the "continuous copy" (keyboard short cc) command is still available in 2009?

[lpseifert]

AFAIK (using 2008) copy is continuous unless Copymode=1. If you want the alias for copy to be CC, invoke Aliasedit.

[ccowgill]

CC is not a standard AutoCAD keyboard shortcut. if you are refering to being able to copy an object multiple times within one issuance of the copy command, lpseifert is correct and I believe it has been that way since AutoCAD 2005, or 07, or somewhere in between

[stacey.90448]

The command is a carry over from older versions. It is a separate command from the copy command. The command works like this. Type in CC, it will prompt you to select an object, then you select an angle for copy, then a distance. You just keep hitting enter as things get copied. It works similar to the array command. It was real slick and I used it a lot. The last version that I was working in was 2006 and it work in that version.

[ccowgill]

is it possible that it was a custom lisp routine? I have never had this command in AutoCAD before. Are you using a vertical? I checked my pgp file from 05 and there was no cc command alias listed.

*edit* I think, you are referring to the COPYM command from express tools. cc must have been a custom alias added to the pgp file to call the command. because the default call is COPYM, based on your post, this one sounds like what you are asking for:
from the Express Tools Help:


Copies multiple objects with Repeat, Array, Divide and Measure options.

Command: COPYM
Select objects: Select the objects to be copied
Base point: Specify a base point
Second point or [Repeat (last)/Divide/Measure/Array (dynamic)/Undo] <exit>:

COPYM Options
Repeat Repeats the last copy using the same offset distance.
Divide Linear divide option. Prompts for an additional point and the number of copies to make. Makes evenly spaced copies of the selected objects between the base point and the second selected point.
Measure Linear measure option. Prompts for an additional point and the distance between copies. Makes evenly spaced copies at the specified distance between the base point and the second selected point.
Array Displays the Array Options prompt:

Pick (dynamic)/Measure/Divide <Pick>:


Array Options
Pick Allows you to interactively specify array elements. Prompts for an angle and then prompts for a point to establish row and column offset distances. The cursor snaps to regular intervals at the specified row and column offsets so that you can select one array element location one at a time.
Measure Allows you to specify a box to fill with copies of the selected object(s). Prompts for an angle, a point to establish row or column offsets and an additional box corner point. The base point is used as the first corner of the box.
Divide Allows you specify a box to fill with copies of the selected objects. Prompts for an angle, and a point to establish the second box corner point. The base point is used as the first corner of the box. Then prompts for the number of rows and the number of columns.

[stacey.90448]

ccowgill,

It is not a lisp or COPYM. I remember reading somewhere that it was an old command that was carried over from older versions somewhere before 2000. That is when I first started using that command. I read somewhere that cad programmers do not always delete old commands but you can only access them through keyboard shortcuts. Try typing cc in your 05 version and see what you get.

[jaberwok]

Sorry, CC (continuous copy) was never an in-built acad command but it was a simple routine that many beginners to lisp wrote (just like what is now MoCoRo).