Control how attributes are copied between objects

Via Settings > Preferences > Other, you can configure which attributes are copied when using Copy/Paste Attributes:

• Choose which properties to include: color, layer, comment, level, arrow orientation, pattern, text orientation, annotation content, etc.
  
  

• Choose to apply attributes to all objects (General) or only matching object types (Object) (since Pythagoras 2021).
  
  

This ensures flexibility when pasting attributes between objects in mixed drawings.

The attributes that can be selected are:

• Color
• Layer
• Comment
• Display level
• Point Number
• Line Arrows
• Pattern orientation 
• Text orientation
• Annotation content

Choose whether the copied or pasted attributes only affects the same type of objects or affects all objects that have these attributes.

Read more about copy/pasting attributes in: Working with Attributes (2): Copy/Paste methods

Example 1 - Default attributes:

Setting the preference to Apply to General means that when the default attributes of a red line are copied, the default color attribute of all objects will change to red.

Setting the preference to Apply to Object means that when the default attributes of a red line are copied, only the default color attribute of object type line will change to red.

Example 2 - Attributes:

Setting the preference to Apply to General means that when the attributes of a red line are copied and pasted to a group of different objects types (points, lines, polygons), the color attribute of all objects will change to red.

Setting the preference to Apply to Object means that when the attributes of a red line are copied and pasted to a group of different objects types (points, lines, polygons), only the default color attribute of object type line will change to red.

Example of Copy to Default Attributes

- Apply to General

- Apply to Object