Copy, Delete, Cut and Paste Actions

copy of selected system

cut selected system

paste of copied system

copy Cut and Paste actions

Before doing any of these operations, it is necessary to select the objects you wish to operate on. Normally, you do these actions in Sketch mode but selecting and copying can be done in any mode. Note that Cut creates a copy of the items removed whereas Delete does not. You can always recover an item removed by Cut or Delete using the Undo command .

To cut, copy, paste and delete, you have three alternatives:

	Cut	Copy	Paste	Delete
Edit menu	Edit > Cut	Edit > Copy	Edit > Paste	Edit > Delete
Button
Shortcut	Ctrl+X	Ctrl+C	Ctrl+V	Delete

For the tutorial example

Step 1: Paste the system to a different window/system

Procedure

1. Select the complete Quarter car system.

2. Copy the selected objects, e.g. Ctrl+C.

3. Click in the new system to make it active.

4. Paste the objects in the new system, e.g. Ctrl+V.

The mouse pointer takes on the appearance of the objects copied in the active window/system. Mirror and Rotate actions can be performed if necessary by clicking the mouse left button. Figure 44: Paste in the new system

5. Left click to add the objects to the sketch.

6. Close the Quarter car model in order to work only on the new model.

7. Save the new system as skyhook for example.

Step 2: Complete the sketch as shown in the figure below

Procedure

1. Remove the line from the road profile.

2. Select all the mechanical components.

3. Paste them twice as shown below. Fortunately, the submodel parameters are preserved in the pasting process.

Figure 45: Paste the system twice

Note

Remember that you can use the alignment and distribution tools to obtain a tidy layout.

Alignment tool	Distribution tool

Remember we are using a single duty cycle component to define the road profile. Three copies of this signal must be produced to be fed into the three sub-systems.

There are two ways of doing this:

• Using simple signal duplication blocks. Figure 46: Signal duplication blocks

• Using a general dynamic duplicator block.Figure 47: Dynamic duplicator block

See Dynamic blocks for more information on using dynamic blocks.

In the current example

dynamic blocks

Procedure

1. Add a dynamic duplicator block (DYNDUP2) to the system specifying 3 ports on the right.

2. Next, complete the system as in Figure 41.

3. Construct the lines to connect the components.

4. Edit some parts of the system.