### Paste with Pattern

The Edit | Paste With Pattern option takes any feature (or group of features) stored on the clipboard and pastes it to the Edit window at the current cursor location. When you do this, new features are created based on those copied to the clipboard. However, the newly created features will have the previously defined pattern offsets applied to them. See "Pattern" for more information.

To paste features using a pattern:

1. Make sure the proper offsets have been defined using the Pattern Offsets dialog box (select the Pattern menu option).

2. If you will be copying and pasting one or more Auto Features and want to use a predefined clearance plane, make sure you have CLEARPLANE=ON inside the Auto Feature or Features you will be copying.

3. Make sure the feature (or set of features) you want to offset has been highlighted and copied to the clipboard.

4. Position the cursor at the location in the part program where the new features are to be inserted.

5. Select the Edit | Paste With Pattern menu command.

PC-DMIS will paste the contents of the clipboard as many times as indicated by the value in the Number of Times to Offset of the Pattern Offsets dialog box. Each time the clipboard contents are pasted, the newly created feature(s) will be offset with respect to the previously inserted feature(s) by the defined pattern offsets. PC-DMIS will draw the newly created features in the Graphics Display window. Feature IDs will be generated based on the Use Default Prefix check box in the Pattern Offsets dialog box.