Copy and Paste Object on the Build Plate

Bambu Lab Software Feature Requests
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Select object on the build plate
Right click and choose Copy
Switch to another instance of Bambu Studio
Right click on the build plate and choose Paste

Discussion: This is pretty much the standard copy and paste function found in many applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and various Graphics Programs) Often I’m not sure of the location of .stl for an object I already have on a build plate. To put it on a build plate in another instance of Bambu Studio requires exporting/naming it and then dragging it to the other instance of Bambu Studio. A copy and paste function would really make the process fast and easy.

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Why use another instance of Bambu to do that? You can add another build plate and open your STL there, never leaving a single instance of Bambu Studio. You can then copy and paste between the plates or drag things around to whatever configuration you are needing.

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You are correct! I have multiple projects, each of which has multiple build plates. I regularly have a one off need to do a single print of multiple objects from those different projects. A simple copy and paste function would make it much easier and faster to do that. I do it all the time in Microsoft Office and various graphics programs. There is no reason I should not be able to do the same with Bambu Studio. It’s basically a variant of the existing Clone Command.

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I agree, copy paste should be available. My scenario is I have a single file with many plates as template. I want the templates intact and be able to just copy plate any object on the plate and paste it to another project so that I could print all the object I needed from multiple projects with multiple plates in it.

Thanks!

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I am new and was looking for a Copy function also. I did discover that if you add a plate you can right-click the object and a Clone feature is added in the menu. It will clone the object onto the existing plate and I just closed the added plate.

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I use the Clone feature all the time. Unfortunately, what you can’t do is copy an object from one instance of Bambu Studio to another, you will have to go find the original .stl file.

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Was about to write a feature request at GitHub about this. copy-n-paste functionality between different instances of Bambu Studio is a must.

My use-case is that I keep different some 3mf files as originals and would like to be able to copy into them without having to go via export as STL.

Would be really useful if slicing settings for the object was copied/pasted as well.

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I fully support this feature request! My use case is printing multiple small objects from different 3MF files on a single plate, without having to export the STL’s and import them separately. Drag&Drop would also be an option - both Copy and Drag&Drop already exist in Cura and the other popular slicers.

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Agree that copy/paste between projects would be very nice to have. As Jimisola touched on, probably the easiest way right now is to export the individual object to a by right clicking on the object and then selecting ‘Export as one STL’ which will save that individual object to a STL file. You can then do a ‘File’, ‘Import’ and select the STL to get that object into the other project. It is a few more steps, but does work like a copy/paste. Good Luck!

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This is kind of old, but when you do the 2nd plate, does a P1S actually stop when the first plate is done until you tell it to continue onto the 2nd plate?

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Yes, having every print instance open in it’s own sandboxed-slicer and not being able to copy/paste a model over seems like a missing essential feature. Every software I can think of always allows copy/paste within itself.

Bambu, please implement this! And while you are at it, just allow us to intercept the export/print from Fusion 360 and allow us to “add to existing slicer project”.