Copying Plates

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Copying Plates

Once you have successfully nested a plate it is possible that you will want more than one example to be cut, or reuse a nest that took careful planning in a different context.  
You also may want to reuse a past example of a nest to use.

1Use an enclosing rectangle over the whole plate or use CTRL + A to select all the nested parts.

2Press CTRL + C to copy the nest to the clipboard.

3Double-click on the empty plate in the plates explorer to open it in the nesting editor.

4Press CTRL + V to paste to the empty plate.  

5Press the clear plate button (the one in the main window toolbar, not on the left [which clears all selected plates]) 2943. Click Yes to the confirmation.

We want to now upload the nest we have just made from the list of past nests. We first have to make sure the plate we want to use is not locked because we have it loaded already.  

6right-click on the empty plate in the plates explorer. Click Remove Plate from the popup menu. Click Yes when it asks if you're sure.

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7Click the Save All button to ensure that our nest is in the list of nests.

8Click the Nest Re-use 2839 button.

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9Select our nest from the list of nests with parts in common with our current workspace.

10Click Next.

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11Scroll down to the plate the same size as the one you just used and select it. (Note more than 1 plate can be used as this stage).

12Click Copy to 1 plate.

13Click OK.