Moving and Copying Groups of Items
EasyPower has the ability to move and copy large groups of items on the one-line by dragging that group.
Group Move
Move groups of items by dragging them with the left mouse button.
- Select items to move. You can select groups of individual items by holding the CTRL key and left-clicking, or by dragging a rectangle around the items you want to move.
- When you bring the Select pointer close to the selected items, a four-headed arrow appears. When the four-headed arrow is visible, you can left-click and drag to move the items.
- After you move the items to the desired location, click anywhere in the one-line where the four-headed arrow does not appear. The items are no longer selected.
All connectivity is retained during a move. The results are identical to what you would see if you manually moved each of the buses and items the exact same direction and distance.
Group Copy
You can perform a group copy while in the Database Edit focus.
- Select items to copy. You can select groups of individual items by holding the CTRL key and left-clicking, or by dragging a rectangle around the items you want to move.
- Click
Copy. Alternatively, you can press CTRL+C. - Click
Paste. Alternatively, you can press CTRL+V. - Drag the copy to the location where you want it to appear on the one-line.
- Set the copy's position by clicking anywhere outside the group's bounding rectangle or by pressing ENTER.
Any connections to other items in the same selection group are retained in the copied items. Connections to items outside the group are not connected.
You can copy and paste items from one one-line to another using the method described above. When you paste the items into a new one-line, EasyPower displays the symbols based on the one-line settings.
Copying Subsystems
Group copying is used to create new subsystems in your one-line by starting with a system that already exists. You might want the names of the new subsystems to mirror the names in the original system, with some minor changes.
For example, suppose you have the system names T5/9927, T5/9928, and T5/9929, and you want the resulting names in the copies to be:
- T6/9927, T6/9928, T6/9929 (first copy)
- T7/9927, T7/9928, T7/9929 (second copy)
To do this:
- Open the clipboard by clicking Tools > Options > Options Dialog > Clipboard.
- Under ID Name Assignment for Copies, ensure Append variable text to original's name is selected.
- Under Variable Text, select Alphabetic (A,B,C...).
- In Prefix, type a unique character such as #, and then click OK.
- Select the system you want, and use the methods described in Group Copy to create two copies of the subsystem. After the copying is done, you will have the names:
- T5/9927#A, T5/9928#A, T5/9929#A (first group)
- T5/9927#B, T5/9928#B ,T5/9929#B (second group)
- Select the items in the first subsystem, click
Change and then click ID Name. - In Replace these characters, type T5/.
- In With these characters, type T6/.
- Repeat step 3 for the second subsystem, except in With these characters, type T7/.
- Select all of the subsystems together. The easiest way to do this is to use the
Select pointer and drag a rectangle around the subsystems. - Click Change and then click ID Name.
- Under Replacement Type, ensure Character replacement is selected.
- In Replace these characters, type #*>, and leave With these characters blank. Click OK.
Note: The characters ?!\"%&,^ cannot be used here.
Note: You must first make a selection of items for the Change ID Name command to be available.
This deletes the "#A" and "#B" characters from the names, leaving only the names:
- T5/9927, T5/9928, T5/9929 (original)
- T6/9927, T6/9928, T6/9929 (first group)
- T7/9927, T7/9928, T7/9929 (second group)
More Information
| Making One-line Diagrams | Selecting Items |
| Moving Items Using Cut and Paste | Grouping One-line Items |
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