Paste and Transparent Paste are items in the Edit menu.
Shortcuts: ⌘ V, Shift ⌘ V
Items that have previously been cut or copied reside on the clipboard, an area of the computer's memory that is accessible to all applications and all windows of an application,making it easy to move the item from place to place.
Paste takes an item from the clipboard, and places it at the current insertion point, provided that the item matches the kind of data that can be handled at that point. Fiberworks handles shaft and treadle sequences, color sequences and thread thickness sequences. Anything else is ignored. Also, pasting a mismatched item is ignored, e.g. a color sequence into a tieup.
When you paste (⌘ V) into the tieup or a liftplan, both white and black squares of the pasted item are inserted at the paste location, so white covers black.
Paste only works if you paste into a compatible draft component; you can't paste a color selection into the tieup, or a threading into a colorbar.
Transparent Paste (Shift ⌘ V) treats white squares in the pasted item as transparent, allowing black squares at the destination to show through.
Difference from the Windows Fiberworks PCW: Transparent Paste in the Windows version sets a state so that a subsequent Paste acts as transparent. In the Fiberworks for Mac, Transparent Paste actually performs the paste action.