Copy Multi-Layered Drawing-Object and keep the same Layers

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schittli
Aug 20, 2008
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Good evening

We often have to clone a Drawing-Object and the clone should use the same Layers. We expected that we can just select the Objects on the related Layers, Drag and keep a key (e.g. Ctrl) and Drop the copy…

An example:
The original Object has an rectangle and a text on two layers: Layer 1: Rectangle (Original)
Layer 2: Text (Original)

After cloning, we should have:
Layer 1: Rectangle (Original) Rectangle (Copy)
Layer 2: Text (Original) Text (Copy)

Thanks a lot for all ideas in advance,
kind regards,
Thomas

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Curvemeister
Aug 22, 2008
Copying layers works about as you describe. It is not necessary to hold down the ctrl key. Instead you drag the layers to a new image. Since the bottom layer exists already, the first cloned layer will start be layer 2. If this is a problem, another way to clone is by using the Duplicate Image command.
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schittli
Aug 23, 2008
Thank you for your fast answer!, unfortunately it does not work as expected: after the Copy-Operation I always have more Layers than before. To use my example again:

The original Object has an rectangle and a text on two layers: Layer 1: Rectangle (Original)
Layer 2: Text (Original)

Then I select the Rectangle and the Text an copy these Objects. I always get:
Layer 1: Rectangle (Original)
Layer 2: Text (Original)
Layer 3: Rectangle (Copy)
Layer 4: Text (Copy)

What I expect after copy is:
Layer 1: Rectangle (Original) Rectangle (Copy)
Layer 2: Text (Original) Text (Copy)

Kind regards,
Thomas

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