Copy selected Morph/Properties

peteanderson1212

I have two figures A and B. I have applied a couple morphs to A and some others to B. I have two questions here.

How can I copy the morphs from A to B? All morphs are present in B, I am not cloning morphs, I just need to copy the morphs values from fig A to B, without overwriting the morphs from B. One particular way is to lock the currently used morphs in B and then copy the entire fig A to B. It's unnecessary but works. That arises another question.

I simply want to copy selected morphs values from fig A and not all, to B. Unfortunately I haven't seen a way to do that yet. Why doesn't Copy selected Items work as intended? Unless it seems to be very misguided on how it works and why it is there?

In the screenshot I have applied a couple morphs to a figure. I go to the shaping/parameters tab, Currently Used, and highlight the morphs I want to be copied. From here, pressing Right Click produces this menu.

Some of the options like favourites, lock, hidden etc etc work for the selected morphs but some of the others are more universal instead. Like Edit Mode. Collapse/Expand which is more for the left hand side pane than morphs pane. And one of those options is Copy/Paste. Now Copy produces another sub menu, Copy Figure or rather, Copy selected Items. 

What is that meant to do? One might think, at least that was to my understanding that it is supposed to copy those selected/highlighted properties but unfortunately it does not work as I had thought.

Spacious

As far as I can tell only highlighting the ALL, FAVORITES, and CURRENTLY USED tabs serve to "select" evrything in their respective tabs.  Otherwise you need to select each individual item to get COPY SELECTED to work like it seems like it should.  If whichever items you want selected are next to each other on the list, you can select the first item and use the SHIFT key to select additional items.  It's tricky if there are other items you don't want selected in between them.

I usually select the CURRENTLY USED tab of the figure I want to copy from, and use CNTRL+C to copy, that's the keyboard shortcut for copy selected in this case, and it will copy the values for all currently used properties.  Then I select the main node of the figure I want to paste to, so highlight the name of the figure, and use CNTRL+V to paste.  This will paste all of the values that sre used on the figure you copied from.  Then I clean up anything that may have copied over that I don't want.  Not elegant, I know.  It's often easier to copy each property individually, but when it's a bunch of properties that gets tedious.

Hope this helps.

Richard Haseltine

Rather than copy/pasting you could save a Shaping preset - the options menu in the dialogue would then let you select only the non-zero properties, which would give a preset you could apply without disturbing other values.

Spacious

That sounds more elegant than the way I've been doing it.  LOL.