# Duplicating an object

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [February 16, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383 "2024-02-16T11:43:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![benaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@benaston](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/benaston)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/1 "2024-02-16T11:43:42Z")

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Please add a menu command to duplicate an object in-place. The existing duplication mechanism is fiddly, time-consuming and error-prone.

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**Author:** ![dloveaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@dloveaus](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/dloveaus)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/2 "2024-02-18T00:26:39Z")

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Are you sure? Double click the object, tap copy, drag an arrow and type a zero, hit enter. Probably faster if using keyboard shortcuts.

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**Author:** ![benaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@benaston](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/benaston)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/3 "2024-02-18T12:39:03Z")

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Yeah, it’s baroque. How about a single click command to duplicate? Duplication is such a common necessity and diving into the repositioning flow risks moving the part.

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**Author:** ![luiscrsousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@luiscrsousa](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/luiscrsousa)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/4 "2024-02-19T14:51:29Z")

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Try doing that on a folder with 100 or 200 objects. It lags to infinity. It takes like 10 seconds for the movement to update. i9 processor, 3050ti gc, 64GB RAM

**To Shapr3D team**  
This is the worst thing in shapr3D, I use duplicate features all the time and it makes zero sense shapr3D to not have a simple duplicate in place feature.  
I hate this so much that I’ve been thinking to just replace shapr3d for fusion, that’s the level where I’m at

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**Author:** ![cwijnveen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@cwijnveen](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/cwijnveen)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/5 "2024-02-19T15:57:52Z")

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I totally agree that the current copying method is cumbersome. In the past I could copy an object by clicking the plus sign and entering a ‘0’. Now the ‘0’ does not work anymore, I have to enter a greater value than ‘0’ and afterwards move the object back… really time consuming…  
Gratz Christian.

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/6 "2024-02-19T17:31:44Z")

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Hi @cwijnveen ,

A work-around for that is to copy and rotate 360 degrees.

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**Author:** ![luiscrsousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@luiscrsousa](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/luiscrsousa)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/7 "2024-02-19T17:53:24Z")

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But it is very laggy when rotating 100s of objects at the same time

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/8 "2024-02-19T18:56:15Z")

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Yep. It is also laggy to translate 100s. Twice. Work-arounds are not efficient. Christian was using a method to duplicate that is no longer supported. An integrated tool/function/method that is fast is desired, but not here at the moment. How do you duplicate hundreds of bodies? What do you do about parametric history?

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**Author:** ![luiscrsousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@luiscrsousa](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/luiscrsousa)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/9 "2024-02-21T14:49:33Z")

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> [@Bob3DPO](#):
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> How do you duplicate hundreds of bodies? What do you do about parametric history?

I don’t use it with parametric features. I mainly use it to maintain different objects versions. Sometimes I have dozens of versions of an object with 100 bodies.

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**Author:** ![JWardT3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jwardt3d/32/21284_2.png) [@JWardT3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/JWardT3D)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/10 "2024-03-06T08:50:04Z")

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Parametric modeling solves some of the need for multiple models by allowing you to go back and make changes that propagate to the entire model. I think versioning is on the table for future updates. Hopefully that would eliminate the need for the multiple copy practice entirely.

It would be nice if the ole control-C, control-V worked though. TBF, the similar function in Fusion gets a bit weird in certain situations.

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**Author:** ![herodotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@herodotus](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/herodotus)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/11 "2024-09-28T03:41:15Z")

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i 1000% agree. there is NO coherent thought through way to duplicate an object or set of objects. at nearly $300 a year i should not have manually recreate the object.

quite frankly the more i use Shapr3D the more i realize it violates 30+ years of good UI design best practices.

Unfortunately Fusion is just as bad.

Truly sad how poorly designed most of the 3D modeling tools are. they might have good backend capabilities but the user experience is dreadful and duplicating/copying objects and folders should be trivial and it’s not.

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**Author:** ![jean-philippe2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jean-philippe2/32/27353_2.png) [@jean-philippe2](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jean-philippe2)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/12 "2024-09-28T07:54:58Z")

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Hi,  
To duplicate a body or a group i use Menu \> Transform \> Move/Rotate (copie)

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**Author:** ![Developer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Developer](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Developer)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/duplicating-an-object/30383/14 "2025-10-24T08:55:27Z")

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Definitely agree with the OP.  
I’ve noticed that not much response is provided by the Shapr3D team, is this normal?

I haven’t seen any response on any of the feature requests (and some are actually very critical when it comes to bigger projects).