I’m finding that frequently lines created in layout are duplicating on top of themselves sometime 4 to 5 high causing me to delete them to get back to the single line. Is there some copy function I’m inadvertently initiating without knowing it?
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Maybe. Paste is always a paste in place thing. If you are copying and pasting it could be you’ve pasted a bunch of times. Maybe a key is stuck? Hard to say without more information.
This is in LayOut 2019?
I’ve found that when holding the CTRL key to select multiple entities (text, dimensions, viewports, etc.), inadvertently clicking on the same entity again will place a copy in the same place.
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Hi Dave, I have SU and Layout 2023. Maybe it’s because my mouse function is touchy, I’ve noticed my click and drag for copying is sensitive and will either be stodgy or drop a copy before I’ve released the button on my mouse. Maybe I should get a new mouse. The lines in question or the ones I did an initial copy of; but of course, I was surprised to discover multiple stacked copies.
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Maybe that’s it. As @racanf noted, If you were trying to select multiple objects with Ctrl active and your left mouse button is flaky, you could certainly get what you are seeing.
Not terribly expensive and defintely worth a try.
I noticed the same Ctrl key selection issue. If you use the Shift key selection it helps.
You can also try initiating the move before clicking the Ctrl button (click on geometry, drag geometry to new location, then press Ctrl at the end of the move, then release mouse).
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I’ve been having the same issue in LO over the last few years, where I accidentally create multiply copies of an entity on top of itself.
I believe my fault was that I like to use “ctrl” to add to a selection and sometimes accidentally click on an entity that is already selected. I finally realized after reading the posts above, that action creates a copy on top of itself. Using “shift” as an alternate is OK, but will remove items already selected so not always ideal depending on the situation.
Now that I am aware of this quirk in LO, I should be able to avoid doing that as often.
Thinking about it for a bit, I know “ctrl” during the move command has been used for a long time in both SU and LO to make a copy… I guess the problem is that LO automatically evokes the move, rotate, scale commands simply by hovering over the already selected entities. I’ve gotten used to this and is usually advantageous, but its interesting to note that in SU, you have the ability to pre-select objects using the selection tool where “ctrl” adds, “shift” adds/subtracts and “ctrl”+“shift” subtracts from a selection like in most windows based programs and than you evoke the transform you’d like to do after you have finished selecting everything you want. In SU, while using the selection tool with the “ctrl” down, you do not make a copy by clicking on an already selected object. This behavioral difference between the two programs is what is causing me to make my unintended duplicates in LO.
I guess in the end, it would be nice if both programs behaved and had user interfaces as similar as possible in regards to basic entities and transforms with the exception that one is 2D paper space and the other is 3D model.
A question remains though, for all my duplicating sins of the past, is there a Layout tool/plugin to help scan for duplicate entities (lines, text, dims…) and erase them leaving only one? I noticed that LO does add a little bit of emphasis on entities that are on top of one another, but a scanning tool would be great to clean up my drawings.
Thanks
I don’t think there’s a tool to do that but you can leverage your observation. Zoom out a bit and look at the heavier content. Select with a single click and delete. Repeat until the last one disappears and then immediately undo the last deletion.