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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> menu offers a variety of commands that allow you to modify existing objects. You can undo most immediately preceding operations, delete objects from a part file, and modify the layer, color, font, width, grid count, and translucency of existing objects. You can also translate, rotate, scale, and transform objects, make objects visible or invisible, as well as move objects or their copies among the layers in a part file.
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      <p class="para_topic">The following commands are available from the <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> menu.
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               <p class="para_th">Option</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_undolist_r.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Undo List</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Reverses, or &quot;undoes&quot;, one or more preceding operations.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Redo</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Redoes the operation reversed by the <b class="uiTerm">Undo</b> command.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Cut</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cuts selected components or features and places them on the clipboard. If the selected object cannot be cut, you receive the message, &quot;Incorrect object for operation&quot;.</p>
               <p class="para_td">You cannot cut components that are members of an associative array based on feature geometry in the parent part. If you try to do so, you receive the message, &quot;One or more selected components is a member of an associative parametric array. Do you want to copy these components instead?&quot;</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Copy</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Places a description of the selected component or feature onto the clipboard. Note that the <b class="uiTerm">Copy</b> operation may not provide enough information to perform a paste without first completely loading the part that was copied.
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_copydisplay_r.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Copy Display</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">(Windows only) Allows you to copy a vector image of the contents of the NX graphics window to the Windows clipboard on platforms running the Windows Operating System. You can then copy that image from the Windows clipboard into a document in a Windows application.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Paste</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Pastes components or features that have been cut or copied to the clipboard. The object is pasted into a location, usually the work part, where it can then be positioned correctly.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_pastespecial_op.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Paste Special</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Pastes objects to other layers and allows you to specify other destination coordinate systems.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_delete_r.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Delete</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Removes objects permanently from a part file.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_selection_cm.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Selection</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Displays a sub-menu which is a subset of the options on the <b class="uiTerm">Selection Bar</b>. Provides flexible filtering tools to help you select the object you want.
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_blank_m.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Show and Hide</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Hides or shows objects.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_trnsfrm_m.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Transform</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Translates, rotates, and scales objects or their copies.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_ov.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Object Display</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Modifies the layer, color, font, width, grid count, translucency, and shading status of existing objects.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_prop_ov_r.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Properties</b></a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Assigns, copies, edits, displays, and deletes object names and attributes.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Style</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Available only for appropriate objects, such as PMI objects. This option is also available in the Drafting application.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Opens an appropriate style dialog box, such as the <b class="uiTerm">Annotation Style</b> or <b class="uiTerm">View Style</b>. See the <em>Drafting Help</em> and the <em>PMI Help</em> for more information.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Sketch</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Affects the size of an object and the distance between the object and its reference point.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Annotation</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Available only for appropriate objects, such as PMI objects. This option is also available in the Drafting application.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Provides options for annotations. See the <em>Drafting Help</em> and the <em>PMI Help</em> for more information.
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               <p class="para_td">Available only for PMI section views.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Opens the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.popUpPage('pmi/index.html?goto=pmi/sectionvw_edit_ht.html&vars=-aux,-home','linkInter','menubar=yes,status=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes,location=no,directories=no');return(false);">editing version of the <b class="uiTerm">Section View</b> dialog box</a>. See the <em>PMI Help</em> for more information.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">User Defined Object</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Edits a <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Object</b> (<b class="uiTerm">UDO</b>). For more information, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.popUpPage('nxopen_gen_prog/index.html?goto=nxopen_gen_prog/udo_ov.html&vars=-aux,-home','linkInter','menubar=yes,status=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes,location=no,directories=no');return(false);">NX Open User Defined Objects</a>.
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