Please add a Copy Command

SketchUp Feature Requests
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Please please please add a copy command which works like move but without the modifier. You can add new options to the modifier in copy like create unique component. I have moved so many things that I meant to copy over the years. You don’t need to change move but just a dedicated copy. Pretty please.

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I do that as well, but I just hit Ctrl-Z and do it again correctly.

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You are sayin you want a dedicated copy / move tool that does only that. To avoid accidentally moving something you intended to copy but forgot to push the modifier? Just trying to understand the request.

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I want copy pulled out of move and given its own command (leave the move command unchanged). I would like it to work the same way Move does but not require hitting a modifier to get a Copy of an object. Modifier options can be added to the new Copy command. Create unique component maybe or other options. It should be a simple thing to add and man would it make my life easier…Sometimes I don’t realize I moved the thing I wanted to copy until like 20 commands later…

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Just use “make unique” script, what’s the problem?.

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Do you realize that on Mac cmd-C makes a copy, and cmd-V attaches it to a cursor that you can move to where you want the copy to land?

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Not even close to the same thing. Yes it makes a copy but it makes a copy disconnected from the original object. The way move works is the way I want copy to work …without a modifier key as I have been saying. Starts life from the original object. Like how move works…cmd-x will cut an object and cmd-v will paste it. Would you prefer that over the move command?

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Just adding a suggestion to what a modifier key on a fictitious copy command could be if you read my post. No problems with making unique and I did not post any problems with making unique.

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When this happens to me, I do one step ahead of what @kevin58 does, this is cmd+C on the moved object, then cmd+Z and Option+V (my shortcut x paste in place), ending with the moved object and the copied one in its right place (on Mac)

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I just want to use the C key ( I dont draw that many circles). If I have to do cmd C/V I might as well use the modifier. Move just puts me in the move mode in my head and having copy tied to it messes me up in other programs. And I forget that I am moving when I really want to copy the object. Not sure what the big deal is to add this to Sketchup. Seems great and no need to touch the move command for all the people that are ok with the modifier thing.

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In the overhead menu:

Sketchup > Settings > shortcuts > Search “copy”

select Edit / Copy, change to “c”

Now the “c” key does what you want.

For me the modifier key on the move tool could not be any faster, can’t see a need to change.

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