I'm going through this tutorial and nick is able to create copies by pressing the space bar while holding Ctrl + left click. However, I cannot get this to work on Ubuntu 17.04 and Inkscape 0.92. Thoughts? Can I just use Ctrl+D instead or are copies and duplicates different?
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Couldn't get this to work initially either, but it does. It's a little tricky.
Hold CTRL while left-clicking and dragging to rotate, but keep holding both CTRL+left click (don't release them), then hit the Space bar to make a duplicate. Continue for the next rotation, but don't release the left click or CTRL.
Yes, the D key does exactly the same if you release the mouse between rotations.
answered Sep 26, 2017 at 16:51
I am a Mac user. My solution was to hold shift at the same time. I.e hold 'shift'+'ctrl' and press space bar whilst moving the cursor around the object.
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Please, can you explain better your solution also adding some images? Feb 22, 2021 at 8:08
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1Hi Sorry, I realised my answer was not for this specific issue. It was for another one of Nick's tutorials. The edited answer was my solution for this specific problem.– AimanFeb 22, 2021 at 15:37
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Select the object, left click and drag it where you want it. Continue to hold down the left mouse button and hit the space bar, a duplicate will be placed at that location. Continue to hold down the left mouse button and drag the object to the next location, hit space bar again, repeat.
