The Clipboard menu is a selection feature that enables you to make geometry and mesh selections in the Geometry window.

Using the options of this menu, you can create, change, add to, and overwrite the selections of the Clipboard. This feature enables you to select only one type of geometric (face/edge/body/vertex) or mesh (node/element) entity at a time. Once you have made your desired selections and included them in the Clipboard, these selections are available for use during your analysis. When desired, use the menu option Select Items in Clipboard in order to activate your clipboard selections. You can also change active selections using the menu options Add Clipboard to Selection or Remove Clipboard from Selection.

To help you keep track of what is contained in the Clipboard, once you make selections (or add or change) the Clipboard menu displays the current number of entities contained in the Clipboard, such as [1 Edge], as illustrated above. When no selections are contained in the Clipboard, this field contains the text string "Empty." Also note that the status bar displays active Geometry window selections.

The Clipboard menu contains the following options: