Copy and Paste Part Items

Learn how to copy and paste part items with Beacon

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Written by Neil Spackman
Updated over a week ago

There may be times when you want to reuse sections of one part in other parts. This guide will walk you through copying and pasting those sections.

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Copying Items

Select the part that contains the items you want to copy.

Tap Edit this Part.

Selecting One or More Items

Select the item or items you want to copy by clicking on the items one-by-one.

To select multiple items, pull down the panel to towards the bottom of the screen to park it at the bottom of the screen. You'll notice that the already selected item remains selected.

Select additional items to automatically move into multi-edit.

When multiple items are selected, you will see the options available to edit or copy those items. Select the Copy action from the multi-edit panel to copy the selected items to the clipboard.

You can also select all items or all items of a particular type with the Select action.

Pasting Items

Pasting to Existing Parts

Click the magic wand to add items to your part.

Click the plus icon where you want to insert the items.

In the panel, on the left hand side, select the paste icon (the last icon).

You should see the text "Paste Items..." with the number of items you copied in parenthesis. Tap Paste.

Pasting to New Parts

Create a new part from the parts list screen. (See this article for creating parts)

Tap the magic wand to add to your part.

Tap the plus icon.

In the panel, on the left hand side, select the paste icon (the last icon).

You should see the text "Paste Items..." with the number of items you copied in parenthesis. Tap Paste.

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