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Copying And Pasting Tools
Copying Tools
To copy a tool on the flow to the clipboard, right-click on the tool and select Copy from the context menu or select the tool and choose Copy from the edit menu at the top of the screen.
The keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C will also work.
Cutting Tools
To cut a tool on the flow and place it in the clipboard, right-click on the tool and select Cut from the context menu or select the tool and choose Cut from the edit menu at the top of the screen.
If the flow view is active (with a highlighted boundary), the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-X will also perform a cut, as will the View menu's Cut option and the Cut toolbar icon.
Note: This will remove the selected tool from the flow.
Pasting Tools
To paste a tool or tools back into the flow from the clipboard, right-click in the flow and select Paste from the context menu. The tools will be inserted at the location clicked to bring up the menu.
To replace a tool already in the flow with the contents of the clipboard, right-click on the tool to be replaced and select Paste from the tool's context menu instead.
To insert a tool from the clipboard between two other tools, right-click directly on a pipe between two tools and select Paste from the context menu.
The standard keyboard shortcut Ctrl-V can be used to perform a paste, as can the View menu's Paste option, and the Paste toolbar icon. In these cases, the tool will be placed immediately after the currently active tool, and will be automatically connected to it. If the active tool is in the middle of a chain, the new tool will be inserted, with connections being made and other tools being moved as necessary.
If the pasted tool is a source tool with no primary image input, a Merge tool will be inserted instead, the new source tool will be placed at the bottom left corner of your tools and connected to the Merge's foreground input. This auto-merge behaviour can be changed with the Defaults page in Preferences.
If no tool is currently active, or if multiple tools are on the clipboard, they will be placed at the bottom right of your tools. If the tool on the clipboard is a source tool, it will be placed at the bottom left instead.
Pasting Tool Settings
Fusion also offers the ability to paste the settings of the tool from the clipboard into another tool. This function has no keyboard shortcut but can be accessed by right-clicking on the tool into which the copied settings will be copied.
When copying the settings from one tool to another, only the settings that match between two tools will be copied. For example, when pasting settings from a merge to a transform, the center control values, the blend and the size & angle controls will be copied from one to the other.
Using a Text Editor
As of Fusion 5.1 and later, tools can be copied from the flow and pasted into a text editor. This will display the tools' data as it would be saved to disk. The text can then be edited and pasted back into the flow, either as a new tool, or to replace the settings of an existing tool.
