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3.6 Moving and Copying

All objects can be moved including element-names, by <Btn2Down>, dragging the pointer while holding the button down and releasing it at the new location of the object. If you use Mod1<Btn2Down> instead, the object is copied. Copying does not work for element-names of course. You can move all selected objects with Shift <Btn1>. This uses the Pastebuffer, so it will remove whatever was previously in the Pastebuffer. Please refer to Pastebuffer. If you want to give a small nudge to an object, but you don't think that the mouse will give you the fine level of control that you want, you can position the cursor over the object, press <Key>[, move it with the arrow keys, then press <Key>] when it's at the desired position. Remember that all movements are forced onto grid coordinates, so you may want to change the grid spacing first.

To move a trace or group of traces to a different layer, first select the tracks to be moved. It's easiest to do this if you shut off everything but that layer first (i.e. silk, pins, other layers, etc). Now set the current layer to be the new layer. Press Shift-M to move all the selected tracks to the current layer. See the MoveToCurrentLayer action for more details.