Using the clipboard

In Allplan you can copy elements to the clipboard and insert them in any drawing file or application. The input options provide numerous tools that help you place elements.

Note: You cannot use the clipboard when you define patterns and fonts.

Allplan features

You can use the clipboard in Allplan just as you would in any other Windows application. Note, however, that there are some special elements and properties:

• Layer: Elements retain their layers. Elements on frozen layers (visible and hidden) will not be copied.
• Default planes: You must use Ctrl+A to select default planes. See also "Behavior of default planes when copying or moving elements between documents" in the Allplan Help.
• Group number: Elements get new group numbers when you place them. Elements that had the same group numbers still have the same group numbers.
• Document size: The program displays an error message if the file size is too large after you have inserted elements.
• Texts: If the application from which you have copied texts to the clipboard is an OLE server (such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel), the contents of the clipboard will be pasted as an OLE object into Allplan. To paste the contents of the clipboard as normal text, use Paste Contents – Unformatted (Unicode) Text. Text of this kind gets the current text parameters.
• FEA and Allfa elements: FEA and Allfa elements cannot be copied to the clipboard.

Copy

Use this tool to copy selected elements to the clipboard. You can then paste these elements from the clipboard as often as you need. To do this, use Paste and Paste to Original Position. The elements can also be pasted into other applications. This command is not available when no element is selected.

Cut

Use this tool to delete selected elements and move them to the clipboard. You can then paste these elements from the clipboard as often as you need. To do this, use Paste and Paste to Original Position. The elements can also be pasted into other applications. This command is not available when no element is selected.

Paste

You can paste Allplan elements, text (for example, from a word-processing program) and bitmaps from the clipboard into Allplan. This tool is only available in plan view. This command is not available if the clipboard is empty or contains elements that cannot be pasted into Allplan.

If the application from which you have copied text to the clipboard is an OLE server (such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel), the contents of the clipboard will be pasted as an OLE object into Allplan. Use Paste Contents to paste the contents of the clipboard as normal text.

Note: Allplan elements can only be pasted from the clipboard into the same type of document from which they were copied to the clipboard. The contents of the clipboard will always be pasted into the active document even if the data was copied from a file open in edit mode.

Je nachdem, mit welchem Modul Daten erzeugt wurden, erhält jedes Dokument einen Typ. Dieser Typ wird in der Statusleiste und im Dialogfeld Teilbild- und Zeichnungsanwahl angezeigt. Es können die Dokumenttypen 2D/3D Konstruktion, Plan, Ansichten und Schnitte, Rundstahlbewehrung, Mattenbewehrung, Rundstahlbauteile, BAMTEC, Allfem Platten und Allfem Scheiben vorkommen.

Pasting elements from the clipboard into Allplan

The input options provide a number of tools that help you place elements.

Allplan elements are inserted as original data (in other words, with attributes and properties). In the case of text, the current text parameters apply. You can also use the clipboard to insert bitmaps. The following settings are used:

• Color depth: several colors
• Transparency: off; color: black.
• Width: 100 pixels = 1000mm

The clipboard supports the following bitmap formats: DIB (or BMP) and WMF.

Note: When the clipboard contains several formats supported by Allplan, you can use the Paste Contents tool to select a format.

Pasting Allplan elements into other applications

When you paste Allplan elements into another application by using Ctrl+V, the elements are inserted as Windows Enhanced Metafile. But when the clipboard contains text elements (for example, normal text lines, paragraph text, component numbers, labels), these elements will always be pasted as ”pure” text into other applications.

Paste to Original Position

You can use Paste to Original Position to insert Allplan elements in their original position. This command is not available if the clipboard is empty or does not contain any Allplan elements.

Note: If you insert these elements in the same document, they exist twice in the same position.

Paste Contents

You can use this tool to specify the contents of the clipboard you want to insert into Allplan. You can use this tool when the clipboard contains several formats supported by Allplan (for example, bitmap and pure text).