Pasting objects

Chapter 8 Managing Objects

Pasting objects

When you paste an object in PowerDesigner, you transfer all of its properties from the Clipboard and create a new object, and not a graphical synonym or a new instance of the copied object.

You can paste objects into the following locations:

A container node (folder, model or package) in the Model Explorer
A diagram
A list of objects
An external application

To paste an object from the Clipboard inside PowerDesigner:

Select Edit→Paste from the PowerDesigner menu bar.

or

Press ctrl + V on the keyboard.

or

Right-click and select Edit→Paste from the contextual menu of an object.

or

Open a list of objects, select a line in the list and Press ctrl + V on the keyboard.

Drag and drop + ctrl
When you hold down the ctrl key during a drag and drop operation, you obtain the same result as a copy/paste operation.

If you paste the selected object into an external application, the following will occur::

Copied item	Paste result
Diagram symbol	Image of the symbol (MS Word, PaintBrush)
List item from an object list	List in CSV format (MS Word, Excel)
Item from the Check Modeling Result List	List in CSV format (Excel)
Item from the Find Modeling Result List	List in CSV format (Excel)