Drag and Drop Functionality
Once you have defined a study, you can use drag and drop to help you define subsequent studies quickly and efficiently. Drag and drop are similar to copy and paste. In the Simulation study tree, select the items you want to copy and drag them to the desired Simulation study tab.
Drag and Drop Rules
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You can drag and drop (or copy and paste) materials, loads, fixtures, connections, mesh control, and results. You can drag and drop folders (including all items inside), a single item, or a group of items.
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To avoid invalid input, you can drop items and folders to valid destinations only. While dragging an item, a group of items or folder, only the valid destinations in the Simulation study tree will highlight. For example you can drag and drop material folders and items from any study to any other study, but you cannot drag and drop External Loads or Fixtures folders or items from a thermal study to a structural study (static, frequency, or buckling) or vice versa.
NOTES
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Although temperatures are valid for both thermal and structural, the program will not let you drag and drop temperatures from a thermal study to a structural study or vice versa.
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You can only drag and drop result folders and items from one study to another study of the same type. For example, when you drag a Stress Plot icon from a static study and move it over the Simulation study tabs, only static studies will allow dropping. This table
summarizes these rules.