[ghemical-devel] Copy and Paste

[Tommi Hassinen]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Joseph Doolittle wrote:

> I have some crystals that I want to expand without spending a lot of time
> drawing each atom.
> Is there any way to copy and paste existing stuff?

Hello Joseph!

There is no copy/paste functionality yet, but I know a useful trick that 
could help you. Please try the following:

1) draw the structure that you want to replicate.
2) save it into a file ; for example into a file temporary.gpr
3) then, without discarding the structure you have on screen, translate or 
rotate the structure a bit (select all atoms and use the translate- or 
rotate-mouse tool with SHIFT held down).
4) un-select all atoms (the popup-menu item Select/Select None)
5) finally, use the popup-menu item File / Open to re-open temporary.gpr 
you saved earlier ; this will *append* the file to the current stucture so 
that the appended atoms appear automatically selected. So this file trick 
actually works the same way as copy/paste!

I hope this trick helps (until real copy/paste is added :)

 	Tommi