# System level copy/paste?

**URL:** <https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Created:** [November 25, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246 "2023-11-25T00:30:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mestela](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/mestela/32/26174_2.png) [@mestela](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/mestela)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246/1 "2023-11-25T00:30:38Z")

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Currently on iOS there’s very simple copy/paste support in Nomad; rendering an image or exporting a model will use the ios share dialog, that lets you save to a location, or copy to the system clipboard to paste into other apps.

Would it be possible to extend that, and to support system clipboard paste _into_ Nomad?

Eg right now its an extra step to get images from the screenshot tool, safari, paint apps. It’d be great if we could hold on an image in, say, Messenger, choose ‘Copy’, go to Nomad, Alpha, ‘Import…’, and chose ‘Paste’.

I know the aim is for nomad to stay as cross platform as possible, but I assume android has similar functionality?

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**Author:** ![Aszrael](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/aszrael/32/17441_2.png) [@Aszrael](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Aszrael)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246/2 "2023-11-26T17:33:19Z")

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Hm - you mean an “import from clipboard” feature?

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**Author:** ![mestela](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/mestela/32/26174_2.png) [@mestela](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/mestela)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246/3 "2023-11-26T19:40:17Z")

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Yep pretty much.

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**Author:** ![Holger\_Schoenischka](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/holger_schoenischka/32/3934_2.png) [@Holger\_Schoenischka](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Holger_Schoenischka)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/system-level-copy-paste/13246/4 "2023-11-27T00:21:57Z")

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Here is an old discussion on this topic.

> [@Why is there no copy & paste - only duplicate?](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/why-is-there-no-copy-paste-only-duplicate/6010):
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> 1 . If there was a copy function, then you could copy something in project 1 and open another scene and paste the object there again - you can’t do that with duplicate. If there would be a copy function, then you could create and copy an object and then use the UNDO function. If you duplicate and use UNDO then you delete the duplicate. Please do not ask why I want to use UNDO… It is sometimes helpful to change a mesh to create another object, but the change is not needed afterwards… At the…