Mirror a copy and Duplicate one

[Anonymous]

Will be these commands from 7 available in 8?
I cannot switch to 8 without then

[Aussie John]

yes but needs a preference change. Alternately use the command key as you drag or copy to create dup. (opt/command makes multiple copies)

[David Larrew]

AA,

The setting that you are looking for is located under "Options/Preferences/Miscellaneous" in the pull-down menu... Check the "Show Element Copy Transformation Commands in Edit Menu". This also should restore the hot-key functions ("Ctrl+D", "Ctrl+Shift+D", etc.).

But I recommend you learn and embrace the new "on-the-fly" "Ctrl"/"Cmd" key functionalities as well as the pet palettes. I have to admit that I fought changing from my familiar keystrokes - but once I did, I never looked back.

[Ben Odonnell]

I agree with David. The new method of dragging, rotating and mirroring copies is much better and much faster, once you get to know them of course

[James Murray]

'Cmd+D Cmd' (for drag a copy, for example) is the way to go. I thought the decision to make the copy transformations a pref was high-handed, but I get it now.

Typing Cmd turns any drag into drag-a-copy, whether it was started as a Cmd+D or with the arrow tool.

The new way has the added benefit of acting as a toggle; type Cmd again to switch back to a plain drag.

It also gets you away from entanglement in showing/hiding the Dock, which uses Cmd+Opt+D, and has been an intermittent problem for me. (In panther you can turn this off.)

[Anonymous]

I like the new methods of dragging a copy, but not mirror. I cannot find a way to define a mirror point off of the object when mirroring using the pet pallet. If this is available, please let me know. Using the pallet is definitely faster than the key commands.

[__archiben]

ALL BEWARE!

graphisoft have changed the 'Cmd-D Cmd' to 'Cmd-D Alt' in 8.1 - presumably because it toggled itself on and off too many times whilst panning around: 'Cmd-,'. (ie clicking the Cmd button again to invoke another function turns off the "a-copy" bit of the "drag-a-copy").

this is probably more the case for mac users with a single button mouse - no scroll-zoom or click-pan.

what happens now of course is that placing the user origin on the fly: 'Alt-Shift', (which i tend to do a lot), toggles the "a-copy" off again!

it's not as sensitive as using the 'Cmd' buttom, so it is an improvement, and the order in which you 'Alt'+'Shift' seems to play a part in whether or not the "a-copy" gets turned off.

LOOK OUT!
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or there is a bug in 8.1, but I can't drag a copy (+). I can drag multiple copies (++) but not a single copy.

This is what I do: I select the item I want to move, press command D and then option click on the item. I see the + symbol but the item itself is dragged, not a copy. If I press command and option instead of just option, click, then I see ++ and can drag multiple copies.

Any ideal why I can't drag just a single copy (+)?

I'm using 8.1 on a Mac.

Thanks,

Stephen

[Aussie John]

Stephen
after you have issued your command (eg command-d to move command -m to mirror)
- press the command key for a single copy
opt command for multiple copy-

no additional click with mouse until you want to place it

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
Stephen
after you have issued your command (eg command-d to move command -m to mirror)
- press the command key for a single copy
opt command for multiple copy-

no additional click with mouse until you want to place it

This is now changed in AC8.1 to: press option/alt for a copy and add command/control for multiple copies.