Copy, paste & duplicate

Copy part of your truss and paste it back, or paste it anywhere as text

Shortcuts

On a Mac, use ⌘ instead of Ctrl.

Placing a paste

After Ctrl+V, press Enter to put the pasted part back where it was copied from. To put it somewhere else, click a point on the preview, then click where that point should go. Each further click places another copy, until you press Esc.

Pasting always adds to your truss, it never replaces anything:

• A node that lands on an existing node is merged with it, so the pasted part connects to your truss.
• Materials and sections are reused when your model already has one with the same values. Otherwise they're added to your library.

Each placement is one step you can undo with Ctrl+Z.

Pro tip: a copy only takes the materials and sections that the copied members use. To copy your whole library, including materials and sections no member uses yet, copy from the Project code panel instead.

Duplicate to the right

Ctrl+D copies the selection and puts the copy right next to it, on the right. The two share the nodes where they meet, so one panel of a truss becomes two. The copy becomes the new selection, so pressing Ctrl+D again keeps extending the truss.

If the selection has no width (a single node, or a vertical member), Ctrl+D works like pasting: click a point, then click where it should go.

A copy is text

What you copy is Project code: your truss written as text. So you can paste it outside Truzme too:

• into an AI chat, to have the AI change it — see Working with AI
• into a message or an email, to send it to someone — see Sharing a truss

It works the other way too: copy Project code from anywhere, click the canvas, and press Ctrl+V. If it has a mistake, Truzme tells you what's wrong and pastes nothing.