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# Copy Components

## Copy Draft Components

### What It Does

Copy Draft Components copies whole regions of a draft — the entire Threading, Treadling, and/or Tie-up, with colors and thickness riding along — so you can paste them into any other draft in one step. Every chosen part lands at the origin of the target draft as a single undoable operation.

Carry a threading and tie-up into a draft that keeps its own treadling, move a color sequence between drafts, or stamp the same components into as many drafts as you like — the copied set stays on the clipboard until you copy something else.

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### Location

* **Ribbon**: Home tab > Copy Components button (beside Select All)
* **macOS menu**: Edit > Copy Components…

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### The Dialog

**Copy Draft Components** presents a checkbox per component, all checked by default:

* **Threading** / **Treadling** / **Tie-up** — the structure regions
* **Warp Colors** / **Weft Colors** — the color sequences
* **Warp Thickness** / **Weft Thickness** — the thickness sequences

The **All Warp**, **All Weft**, and **Deselect All** buttons set common combinations in one click. Check exactly what you want to travel — unchecked components are left alone in the target draft. Copying colors alone (with no structure checked) works too, and pastes through the color strips.

On a liftplan draft, a note reminds you there is no tie-up — the treadling copies as lifts.

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### Pasting

Switch to the target draft (or open a new one) and paste with **Ctrl+V** (**Cmd+V**) — no selection needed. Every copied component deposits at origin: threading from thread 1, treadling from pick 1, tie-up from shaft 1 / treadle 1. The whole paste is one undo step.

Cross-mode pastes follow the same rules as regular copy and paste: a treadling copied from a tie-up draft converts when pasted into a liftplan draft, and vice versa. The one thing that can't convert is pasting a tie-up into a liftplan draft — a message explains, since a liftplan has no tie-up to receive it.

{% hint style="info" %}
A regular copy (selecting cells and copying them) replaces the component set on the clipboard — the two share one clipboard, and whichever you copied last is what pastes.
{% endhint %}

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### Step-by-Step Example: Transplanting a Threading

You have a draft whose threading and tie-up you love, and a second draft whose treadling you want to keep:

1. Open the source draft and click **Home tab > Copy Components**
2. Check **Threading**, **Tie-up**, **Warp Colors** (and Warp Thickness if it matters); uncheck Treadling and the weft boxes
3. Click **Copy** — a toast confirms what was copied
4. Switch to the target draft and press **Ctrl+V** (**Cmd+V**)
5. The threading, tie-up, and warp colors land at origin; the target's treadling is untouched
6. One **Undo** reverts the whole paste if you change your mind

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### Quick Reference

| Action               | How                                                      |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| Copy components      | Home tab > Copy Components, check boxes, Copy            |
| Paste                | Ctrl+V / Cmd+V in the target draft (no selection needed) |
| Undo a paste         | One Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z reverts everything                    |
| Tie-up into liftplan | Not possible — a message explains                        |
| Colors only          | Works — pastes via the color strips                      |