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Keyboard: COPYCLIP

Shortcut: Ctrl+C

Copies the selection to the Windows Clipboard. You can paste the selection into another drawing or into another program.

For more copy settings, including which versions of .dwg files are used for copying, use the Tools > Options > Clipboard tab.

To paste the drawing in a specific format, use the Edit > Paste Special commands. For example, you can paste the drawing in picture (WMF or EMF) format to create a two-dimensional version of a three-dimensional drawing. Or you can select Bitmap format to paste the drawing into a raster editing program.

FILter/<Select entities to copy to the clipboard>: Select the entities you want to copy. Choose FILter to filter the selection by properties.

The entities are copied to the Clipboard in the following formats:

Format	Description
Picture	WMF (Windows metafile), a vector format.
Bitmap	BMP, a raster format.
Enhanced metafile	EMF (enhanced metafile), a vector format.
progeCAD Entities	The native vector format of the program.
progeCAD Block	The native vector format of the program inserted as a block definition.
Object Descriptor	Used by ActiveX v2.
DIB	Device-independent bitmap, a raster format.

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