How to use Move and Copy tools in Autocad
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the most frequently used couple of commands. Move and Copy is the easiest commands that every user using in every second step. Here you’ll learn how to use them and what additional useful things you can do with them.
Ok let’s begin with Move command
How to use Move command in AutoCAD
As you can understand from this command name Move is a command that you can use to move every object in Autocad.
You can find it on Home tab.
Just click on it with your mouse left button. AutoCAD will ask you Select objects.
After you will select any object you’ll need to confirm that selection is ok by clicking mouse right button or press enter keyboard.
Then it will ask Specify base point or Displacement. It means you must show point from where you want to move an object. You can select any point of object or just click on any point of the workspace. After selecting base point you can move your object.
If you will choose Displacement by hitting D from the keyboard then the base point will be 0,0 coordinates of your workspace.
After you will move your object to the place where it should be, just click with mouse button to place object and finish the Move command.
How to use Copy command in AutoCAD
How to use Copy command in AutoCAD
Copy command can be found under Move command in Home tab.
After you will activate Copy command AutoCAD will ask you Select objects.
Click on an object that you want to copy by mouse button and click mouse right button or press Enter to confirm the selection.
You will see that AutoCAD offering you 2 additional commands.
Displacement you already know how this command work.
The second command is MODE as you can see O letter in the word is a different color. Press on O on your keyboard to activate command.
Autocad will offer you 2 options
Single
Multiply
By default with Copy command, you can choose any objects once and copy it countless time until you will cancel copy command. That calls Multiply.
But if you want copy once then you can switch to Single and copy the object only once. When you’ll need copy objects second time you’ll need to call command again and copy the second object.
As you can see it is very easy to use these basic commands. Use these command to learn how you can use them in a fast way.
