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.
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.
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…
Just use “make unique” script, what’s the problem?.
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?
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.
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.
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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Nope. Yes it makes a free copy unrelated to the original floating in space. Just want a copy command that works EXACTLY the same as the move command minus needing a modifier. Minus the bad habit of using move to get a copy.
What baffles me is the fact it does not exist after all these years…..And the push back from people not wanting a simple copy command minus having to use move and then a modifier….I do not understand. The extra functionality that a copy command would add to with a new set of modifiers…..Should have been in there from the beginning of Sketchup..
What would some of that functionality be?
I made a suggestion of making a unique component from the copy. Also, it could be maybe the move command as a modifier lol. It just simplifies one of the most used commands for me and adds some hair back into my scalp for the times where I didnt realize I moved something instead of copied it like 20+ commands ago and have a hole…. Also, it would stop me from starting the move command in other software to get a copy…
OK, nobody is trying to shut your down, at least I’m not. I don’t really agree with your request, it sounds a bit like you keep making a simple mistake, and you would like the program to prevent you from making the mistake, I guess I get that, but for the rest of us who have learned not to make that mistake (forgetting to press the modifier key) the simplest answer feels like learning not to make that mistake. Please don’t be offended, I’m not perfect at SketchUp and I mess up all the time, but I happen to feel that the move tool modifier works well and is the fastest way to get a copy.
It’s not that I want to deny your feature request, and if you could find an extension that serves your needs (which perhaps you can, have you looked?) that would be fine as it would customize your version of SketchUp. But resources and time are finite and this “copy” tool would not be a good return on investment for me because the functionality already exists in a couple ways, so I respectfully disagree. Let’s assume Trimble has the resources to add three new tool to the next SketchUp, this one would not be on my list, that’s all. Like I say, perhaps there is an extension that can help you to have the custom functionality that you are looking for. I am trying to understand your need, I don’t quite get what the “related to original” and “unrelated to original” difference in making a copy is for you? It would be satisfying to help you find a tool or method that does just what you want.
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Its copy…what is there to agree with…It is the most standard command locked behind move….Yea been using Sketchup for like 15+ years and still making the “mistake” of not using a modifier to unlock copy out of move … And will make it for years to come
Is that AI written? The command would take less time to make than that two paragraphs…I have tried to learn Ruby but I just can’t get a hang of it. I wouldn’t call a copy command a feature request more like having a calculator on an iPad…more like a why has it taken this long to type a couple lines of code to make a move command that starts after the copy modifier….THE COPY command… Don’t remove or even touch the move command. Nobody will be upset in any way.
I don’t think this feature you’re requesting will be added on the near or far future, it probably makes sense to you but for most of the users this seems a bit ridiculous, you say you don’t want to use a modifier key because you forget to do it and you will keep forgetting on purpose until your whim is fulfilled.
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The only thing I can imagine is toggle for the default behavior of the move tool. Toggled one way the default would be move and with modifier would be move a copy, while toggled the other way would be reversed. I can’t imagine adding yet another tool icon to the tool palette for these separate functions.
This thread seems to be typical in that the old lags whose muscle memory allows them to use Move with a modifier without thinking wonder why anyone would want a dedicated tool. I guess I am an old lag too but I have never entirely got used to the SU MO and still hanker for a proper Copy command (NOT Ctrl-C). So I vote with the OP on this one. But, being an old lag that has asked for this feature many times before and seen others do so as well, my advice is: don’t hold your breath!