Product Documentation
OrCAD Capture User Guide
Product Version 17.4-2020, June 2020

Copying objects

Capture uses the Windows Clipboard to support the standard Cut, Copy, and Paste functions. You can cut, copy and paste information across schematic pages. You can copy text from other Windows applications and paste it into Capture text boxes using the Clipboard. You can also copy a section of your schematic page to another Windows application.

In the part editor, you can copy objects and paste them in the part editor only. Similarly, you can copy objects and paste them in the symbol editor only. 

To copy and paste objects using the mouse

  1. Select the object or objects.
  2. Press and hold both Ctrl and the left mouse button while you drag the object to its second location.
  3. Release the left mouse button to place the copied object.
  • If you are dragging a part or wire to another location and that change will affect connectivity, Capture warns you with a changed cursor and temporary markers on your schematic. Visible and off-screen connectivity changes will be saved in the session log if you complete the operation.
  • Copying projects using Ctrl+drag causes duplicate instances, which creates problems for EDIF netlisting. If you run an EDIF netlist on a design in which you have used this method of copying objects, be sure to use instances when you annotate the design.

To copy objects using the Copy command on the Edit menu

  1. Select the required object.
  2. From the Edit menu, choose the Copy command. The object is placed on the Clipboard.
  3. If the object is to be copied to another window, open that window.

  4. From the Edit menu, choose the Paste command. The object is attached to the pointer.

  5. Move the pointer to the location where you wish to place the object and click the left mouse button. The object appears in the selection color.
  6. Click an area where there are no parts or objects to deselect the object.
  7. If you want to place another copy of the object, repeat steps 4, 5, and 6 above.

To copy text or graphics into other Windows applications

  1. Select the text or graphic.
  2. From the Edit menu, choose Copy. The selected objects are copied to the clipboard
  3. Open the other Windows application and use that application's Paste command to place the clipboard contents.

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