A special method of design is the Process – Copy command. It allows the user to assign the same column sizes to one column line as are assigned to another. This is useful when it is desired to make similar column lines identical. To use the Copy command, first design a column line. This can be done either by using the Process – View/Update command or the Process – Design All command. Next, select the Copy command. With the target cursor select the designed column (the Copy From column), then select the column to which the designs are to be copied (the Copy To column). The designs and settings (splicing and bracing) will be copied to the column. The target cursor changes, alternating between a Copy From cursor to a Copy To cursor, to help identify the current step in the copy process.

The column lines must match in number of columns in the column line, type (standard or hanging), framing and material for the copy command to be successful.

The Copy command does not create a link between the Copy From column and the Copy To column; a subsequent change in the design of one is not automatically made to the other. The command merely copies the current sizes, Fy (fy or py), and settings from one column line to another. For hanging columns, the single and double angle parameters are also copied.