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About the Paste User Interface for Features
The Paste and Paste Special commands are available only if there are features available for pasting in the clipboard. Using the Model > Paste command after copying a feature invokes the creation tool of the feature-type that you are trying to paste. For example, if you are trying to paste an extrusion, the extrusion-creation tool opens. If you are pasting a datum feature, the appropriate datum-creation dialog box opens. The tab of each feature-creation tool contains a tab highlighted in red. You must modify the settings of the highlighted tab to place the pasted feature. You can use the object-action or the action-object method for the paste.
Pasting Multiple Features
When copying multiple features, the first feature in the group determines the user interface that opens:
If the first feature is a tab feature, then the feature tool opens for each feature in the group sequentially, so that you can paste the copied feature.
If the first feature is a non-tab, old style feature, then the Group Elements dialog box opens and you can define all placement references of the copied features on the WHICH REF menu selecting Alternate or Same references.
The copied instances, by default, retain the references, settings, and dimensions of the original feature. While pasting, you can change the references, settings, and dimensions of any one of the copied features or all the copied features in the corresponding feature-creation tool.