Clipboard
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Hi,
I had a problem with general frustration that the Woodworker folks helped me out with. I found a book "The Missing Manual" to be very helpful in walking me through.
Now, I can't find the "clipboard" that things are copied to. I have a computer guy with me today, and he can't find it either. Please-what simple thing are we overlooking on SketchUp 8 Pro?
Thanks, ocd
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Look for
Menu > Edit >
Cut
Copy
Paste
PasteInPlacewhich all use the 'Clipboard'
These are often set to shortcut key combos as
Ctrl+X
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
Ctrl+Shift+V
and
Ctrl+Z = Undo -
FWIW, the 'clipboard' is the same sort of thing used by other programs for Cut, Copy and Paste.
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What's confusing is that we are looking for a physical icon and window that "is" the clipboard. But, from what I gather, the clipboard is out there in the ether somewhere and doesn't actually come up on the screen, but remembers when we cut, copy, etc. Is that right?
Thanks, ocd
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That's pretty much it. Seems to me that in old versions of windows you could see the clipboard--open it from Accessories or something--and see what had been copied to it. There may be some way to do that now but it isn't readily accessible.
Why are you trying to find it?
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Why am I trying to find it-good question. I can't help myself sometimes, that's why I'm ocd.
I take it from the reply I got on another topic that I will be able to create "blueprint"-like drawings eventually. I haven't seen this addressed in my books and that's why I'm going through all this....I just packed up all my drafting equipment, and started doing Sketchup. Fortunately a friend gave me the Pro version for my birthday
My wife says I'm obssesed about\by it. I say-so what?ocd
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You can't 'find' the 'clipboard' any more that you can 'find' SketchUp.
Sketchup.exe isn't it as that is the thing that opens a SKP file.
An open SKP file isn't it either, because it's just a file opened by a process.
If you open Task Manager you will 'see' SketchUp.exe listed as a running process.
You can't do much with it except 'stop' it...
So - the 'clipboard' itself is a similar 'abstract concept'.
IF it exists anywhere it's a system file in the bowels of Windows that even if you opened it would be 'gobbledygook' binary code.
It is the place that files are copied/cut to, and then pasted from, in most windows applications.
When someone says 'put it on the clipboard' or 'paste it from the clipboard' they are referring to the Edit tools I listed earlier that let you Cut/Copy/Paste data between contexts in a file or similar file types/
There are some clever behind the scenes tricks - if you copy some text from a Word document [.doc] and paste it into another similar file it keeps the formatting, but if you were to paste the same thing into a .txt file or a piece of SKP-text it only uses the 'text-string' and ignores its height, Font etc. Similarly if you copy a group in a SKP it will paste into the same SKP [or even another SKP], BUT it won't paste [usefully] into any other type of file at all.
There are some third-party tools that let you see what is on the clipboard, and even have multiple clipboards, however, I can't see how these might help you use SketchUp -
You CAN view the contents of the clipboard. It most certainly exists as a default tool in an OS. At least in windows XP, possibly earlier.
@unknownuser said:
To display the clipboard content, user can do it by running clipbrd.exe and it will show you the clipboard content once it is launched. Clipbrd.exe comes together with Windows XP and it is located under C:\WINDOWS\system32. In order to access this utility in faster way, you can create a shortcut and put it in your desktop. Follow below steps to create the shortcut for this utility:
- Right click on the empty area on desktop, then select New->Shortcut.
- The ‘Create Shortcut window’ will pop up, type: %windir%\System32\clipbrd.exe and click Next button.
- Type a name for this shortcut as you like, for example: Clipbrd.exe then click Finish button to create the shortcut on your desktop.
Of course often this stuff is gibberish. But if you are copying text or entire files it will show the text/name of the file/whatever.
There are also 3rd party apps that will show it, as the poster above me stated.
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Because your are not on XP clipbrd.exe won't work.
See http://www.winvistaclub.com/t72.html which covers some third-party clipboard viewers, but what use they might be within Sketchup is questionable? -
According to that article that will work if you can copy over the actual .exe file. However I have not tested it myself.
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Copying a system exe from one OS to another is not advisable.
Also how many people will have XP and Vista/7 readily available to them at the same time?
IF he wants to view the clipboard there are several free apps that will work on his OS...
BUT as I said what use they might be in Sketchup is debatable...
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