The Rhino BETA has several new clipboard enhancements that you will want to try.
Interview with Developer Steve Baer
Rhino BETA Clipboard improvements
The clipboard is a temporary, hidden storage area in your computer’s memory (RAM) that holds data (text, images, files) you’ve copied or cut, allowing you to paste it elsewhere.
This allows data to move between Rhino files, Rhino and other application like AutoCAD or Adobe products, and can just be used to duplicate data with the same Rhino file.
Paste into any version of Rhino 
Traditionally you could only paste into the current version and previous version of Rhino when placing data in the clipboard. Rhino BETA now copies data that can be pasted into any previous version of Rhino. Copy from the BETA and paste into 5.
CopyToClipboardAt Command (CTRL+SHIFT+C) 
This is a new command that lets you specify a base point when copying data to the clipboard. When this is done you will be able to paste with this base point taken into consideration. In other words you can specify a new location to paste data to. This should feel similar to the standard Copy command in Rhino, but with clipboard data instead.
CutAt Command (CTRL+SHIFT+X)
This works in the same way as the CopyToClipboardAt command but also cuts in addition to copying to the clipboard.
PasteAt Command (CTRL+SHIFT+V) 
In cases where you aren’t able to use the CopyToClipboardAt command (copying from previous Rhinos or other applications to the clipboard), there is a PasteAt command that lets you set the location of your pasted geometry. You can place multiple copies at different locations relative to the base point.
PasteAsBlock Command 
Paste the data in the clipboard as a block in Rhino.
Copy now twice as fast
Copying data into the clipboard involves saving data as a temporary 3dm file. Previous versions of Rhino saved a 3dm for both its current version and for the previous version of Rhino. In the Rhino BETA, only a single save is required which cuts the time to copy data to the clipboard in half.
New ClipBoard Command Assignments on Windows and Mac
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Mac
Why the improvements to the Rhino BETA Clipboard?
The improvements are designed make your work with the clipboard in Rhino more efficient.
- Prior to the Rhino BETA, you could not paste into older versions of Rhino. You could paste current and one version back. For example, Rhino 8 could only paste to Rhino 8 and Rhino 7, but not Rhino 6.
- This multiple version copy also caused delays since Rhino needed to save multiple file versions to the clipboard and was not efficient.
- There was no basepoint used for copying and there was no basepoint used to locate the pasted geometry. The copied objects by default were pasted right on top of the original objects. Often this required an additional move to locate the pasted geometry where it need to be.
- Also when you pasted the geometry and you really wanted a block, you were then need to create the block with the Block command. This took two commands, but now you can now paste directly to a block instance.
Please try it out and let us know what needs to be done to improve this feature. Copy and paste away!
