copy/paste protocol, dragging

[Krischu]

Qcad 3.32.3.0 macOS 15.7.3 Sequoia OCLP Intel

What are exactly the steps to select, copy, drag and drop a drawing object?

In the following screenshot I have doen the following steps:

1. Selected the two lines.
2. typed ⌘c
3. typed ⌘v

as a result I'm getting this yellow square at 0;0.
But I want to have it hanging at the cursor to place it somewhere in the drawing.

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[CVH]

Hi,

⌘c .. ⌘v analog to Ctrl+C .. Ctrl+V analog to CP .. PS

Is essentially 'Copy selected entities to clipboard' .. 'Paste clipboard content'.

To paste something somewhere you must provide a target coordinate.
By cursor or by coordinate input.
Typically the new content is previewed at the cursor position ... If that changes after keystroke entries.
It also displays a bounding box around the new content.
Because you used 'Copy' without reference the new target position is the geometrical center of the clipboard content.

The other option is 'Copy with reference' or ⇧⌘C.
Instead of Copying we can use Cut .. Paste or Cut with reference .. Paste.
Another method is MV.

No visible content can be the result of pasting to a currently hidden, frozen or locked layer.
Also see the Options Toolbar of the Paste method for using the current active layer or not.

Not sticking to the cursor is probably related to Snap options and/or restrictions.
Although, we see the large cross-hairs but there is no cursor displayed.
Last coordinate input (Relative zero) seems to be exactly the intersection of the selected lines.

A yellow bounding box is a customized color, typically #7976c5 by default or a pale lavender.
The dash-dot pattern is default.

Regards,
CVH

[Krischu]

Hi,

⌘c .. ⌘v analog to Ctrl+C .. Ctrl+V analog to CP .. PS

Is essentially 'Copy selected entities to clipboard' .. 'Paste clipboard content'.

To paste something somewhere you must provide a target coordinate.
By cursor or by coordinate input.
Typically the new content is previewed at the cursor position ... If that changes after keystroke entries.
It also displays a bounding box around the new content.
Because you used 'Copy' without reference the new target position is the geometrical center of the clipboard content.

The "geometrical center of the clipboard content" is 0,0. But why is the yellow square placed in the drawings origin then?
Why is it not shown hanging at the cursor?

The other option is 'Copy with reference' or ⇧⌘C.
Instead of Copying we can use Cut .. Paste or Cut with reference .. Paste.
Another method is MV.


No visible content can be the result of pasting to a currently hidden, frozen or locked layer.
Also see the Options Toolbar of the Paste method for using the current active layer or not.

I don't want to cut. I wantt to leave the two lines there for picking them when I want to place a center cross of a drilling hole.
None of the layers are hidden or frozen, as far as I can tell.

Not sticking to the cursor is probably related to Snap options and/or restrictions.
Although, we see the large cross-hairs but there is no cursor displayed.
Last coordinate input (Relative zero) seems to be exactly the intersection of the selected lines.

A yellow bounding box is a customized color, typically #7976c5 by default or a pale lavender.
The dash-dot pattern is default.

Regards,
CVH

Actually, I can make nothing of what you are saying. WIth all respect, but please tell me, how to drag drop a selection in QCAD. I remember this being working a couple of years ago in earlier versions.

[CVH]

From your screen capture it is not clear where the cursor is.
The large cross-hairs are shown but no cursor.

From your screen capture we can't tell if any Snapping is active.
For some reason the Paste preview bounding box is centered on the origin and nowhere near the cross-hairs intersection.
Remarkably the preview bounding box is yellow and not pale lavender as default.

From your screen capture we can't tell if you entered a coordinate via the Command Line.
But then the cross-hairs would point there too.

We see 4 selection markers, 2 red = start, 2 blue = end.
Selected is dark red, obscured and the relative zero happens to be on the intersection of those line segments.

as a result I'm getting this yellow square at 0;0.
But I want to have it hanging at the cursor to place it somewhere in the drawing.

Nothing more than the expected behaviour.
Perhaps you can attach the file so that we can emulate your problem.

As last resort ... Resetting the QCAD configuration is known to fix weird problems.

Regards,
CVH

[Krischu]

Here is the drawing.

[CVH]

Works as expected.
Have you tried to reset your configuration?

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Regards,
CVH

[Krischu]

Good news to read that it „works as expected“.
Resetted and it works with me here, too. A lavendel colored square hangs at the cursor and I can place the objects as expected. Thanks!