Copy Element within Diagram

[gcoleman0828]

Hello,

This has to be an easy answer, but I have been looking through the documentation and videos and cannot find anywhere where I can copy and paste an element into the same Diagram.

I tried Ctrl + Shift + C listed here: https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/copy_elements_between_packages.html

It does not seem to want to do the copy and when I try a regular Copy it says that the application does not support the same element in the same diagram.

All I want to accomplish is copy the element (Activity in this case) so I don't have to resize it 10 times. I don't need it to be the same text or any linking between them.

Anyone have the keyboard shortcut to do this? Seems really basic, but I'm not finding it anywhere.

Thanks,
Gregg

[Geert Bellekens]

Ctrl-C and then Ctrl-shift-V, or select and Ctrl-Drag a bit to the side.

Geert

[wivel]

The short answer is :
Ctrl-C copies the selected element(s) to th clipboard.
Ctrl-V creates a link to the original element, which is not allowed, if the element is on the same diagram.
Ctrl-Shift-V creates a new copy of the element.

Which brings up a question: Do you really want to copy the element or do you want to place the same element on several places on the diagram?

Im asking because I have seen the same question from people used to working with Visio, that does not have an underly model to keep track of references, as EA has.

Henrik

[gcoleman0828]

Thank you wivel and Geert Bellekens.

wivel, to answer your question, you are spot on with Visio. I recently went from Visio to this for obvious reasons and was just looking to make a copy of the "shape". I don't want any linking or same ID, so it isn't something I want to reference to the origional. I just want to have the same font ,color, size. I get a little crazy about various shapes looking weird .

Please let me know which shortcut is best for that or the click drag.

Thanks again everyone!

[Geert Bellekens]

Thank you wivel and Geert Bellekens.

wivel, to answer your question, you are spot on with Visio. I recently went from Visio to this for obvious reasons and was just looking to make a copy of the "shape". I don't want any linking or same ID, so it isn't something I want to reference to the origional. I just want to have the same font ,color, size. I get a little crazy about various shapes looking weird .

Please let me know which shortcut is best for that or the click drag.

Thanks again everyone!

Ctrl-shift-V will create a duplicate copy element and put it on the diagram.

Geert

[gcoleman0828]

Awesome. Thank you!!