<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div class="table sectionedit737"><table class="inline"> <tr class="row0"> <td class="col0 leftalign"> « <a href="geda-gschem_ug-grids.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-grids.html">Grids</a> </td><td class="col1 centeralign"> <strong><a href="geda-gschem_ug.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug.html">gEDA gschem User Guide</a></strong> </td><td class="col2 rightalign"> <a href="geda-gschem_ug-components.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-components.html">Components</a> » </td> </tr> </table></div> <!-- EDIT737 TABLE [1-106] --> <h2 class="sectionedit738"><a name="moving_and_copying" id="moving_and_copying">Moving and copying</a></h2> <div class="level2"> </div> <!-- EDIT738 SECTION "Moving and copying" [108-139] --> <h3 class="sectionedit739"><a name="moving_objects" id="moving_objects">Moving objects</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> There are three main ways to move an object: </p> <ol> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Left-click on an object and drag it. If it is <a href="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-selecting.html">selected</a>, everything else that is currently selected will be moved with it.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects and press <strong><M></strong> to begin moving, and then left-click to place them in their new position.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Select one or more objects, and then use <strong>Edit→Move Mode</strong>. Left click once to begin moving the objects, and again to finish.</div> </li> </ol> <p> Any nets connected to objects that you are moving will stretch (or “rubberband”) so that they stay connected. You can turn this behaviour on and off using <strong>Options→Toggle net rubberband</strong>. </p> <p> If you hold <strong><Ctrl></strong> while moving, the movement will be constrained to be only horizontal or vertical. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT739 SECTION "Moving objects" [140-910] --> <h3 class="sectionedit740"><a name="rotating_and_mirroring_objects" id="rotating_and_mirroring_objects">Rotating and mirroring objects</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can also rotate and mirror objects or groups of objects. </p> <p> To rotate the selection 90° anticlockwise around the current position of the mouse pointer, press <strong><E R></strong>. If you are in the process of placing an object on the page (for example, while moving it), you can also rotate by middle-clicking. </p> <p> To flip the selection left-to-right around the mouse pointer, press <strong><E I></strong>. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT740 SECTION "Rotating and mirroring objects" [911-1337] --> <h3 class="sectionedit741"><a name="copying_objects_on_the_page" id="copying_objects_on_the_page">Copying objects on the page</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> When you have objects selected, you can make a quick copy by pressing <strong><E C></strong>, and then left-clicking to place the copied objects. You can right-click while placing to cancel the copy. You can also make a quick copy by selecting <strong>Edit→Copy mode</strong> from the menu, in which case you must then left-click to begin copying and again to finish. </p> <p> If you need to make more than one copy, you can use <strong>Edit→Multiple Copy Mode</strong>, or press <strong><E Y></strong>. This is like a normal quick copy, except you can left-click multiple times to make several copies of the selection, and right-click to finish copying. </p> <p> If you hold <strong><Ctrl></strong> while making quick copies, the copy will be constrained to be in line with the original either horizontally or vertically. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT741 SECTION "Copying objects on the page" [1338-2125] --> <h3 class="sectionedit742"><a name="copying_and_pasting_the_clipboard" id="copying_and_pasting_the_clipboard">Copying and pasting the clipboard</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can copy and paste selected objects using the <em>system clipboard</em>. To copy the selection to the system clipboard, select <strong>Edit→Copy</strong>, or to remove it from the page and put it in the clipboard, <strong>Edit→Cut</strong>. </p> <p> If the clipboard contains gEDA schematic or symbol data, you can place it on the page with <strong>Edit→Paste</strong>. While placing the clipboard data, you can right-click to cancel. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT742 SECTION "Copying and pasting the clipboard" [2126-2566] --> <h3 class="sectionedit743"><a name="using_buffers" id="using_buffers">Using buffers</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> gschem supports several <em>buffers</em>, which work just like the system clipboard, except they are not accessible to other applications. You can access them through the <strong>Buffer</strong> menu. </p> <p> Buffers can be useful when you have a set of objects that you wish to paste multiple times during an editing session, but not all at once. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT743 SECTION "Using buffers" [2567-] --></body> </html>