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Offline RedLionTopic starter

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How to copy and paste repeatedly?
« on: May 03, 2023, 11:55:25 am »
Apologies for what is probably a really dumb question.

I haven't used Altium in a while, but I remember I had it set such that if you copied a part or piece of a schematic, pressing ctrl+V once allowed you to paste repeatedly until you press ESC or right click.
I remember this being really convenient if you need more than one of a specific part. I have searched for quite a while now but I can't for the life of me figure out how to turn that back on.
Am I having a false memory or am I thinking of a different software? Using Altium 17 btw.
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Offline Pseudobyte

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Re: How to copy and paste repeatedly?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2023, 02:21:34 pm »
If you just don't let go of ctrl+v you can keep pasting the same content.

or

Selecting some content and then holding shift while dragging it will duplicate the content.
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Re: How to copy and paste repeatedly?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2023, 06:38:12 pm »
Hm, not quite what I meant, it flooded the schematic with the selected part.

This would be: ctrl+V; "click" place one, "click" place one more, etc... until you hit ESC or right click.
As if you were placing a component, but it's the clipboard content.

Although I may misattribute it, because we've been using Mentor at work which does this by default.
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Re: How to copy and paste repeatedly?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2023, 03:31:05 pm »
I found what I was looking for! It's "rubber stamp", and I remapped it to Ctrl+V rightaway
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