Hi Pilou, yes currently that is intentional that the object name is also copied. It's treated the same as any other property of the object such as the object's style.

This seems to be common behavior, for example I tried some other apps like Rhino and Cinema4D which behave the same way.

If the object name was not copied when an object was duplicated, there could be some bad consequences, like for example if you use Ctrl+C to copy the object to the clipboard, and then use Ctrl+V to paste the object into a different modeling session, it would not be good for the name property to be lost during that transfer of the object data.

Other duplication functions (such as copy option on scale) are intended to be generally similar in behavior as Copy/Paste - I think it could be confusing if one kind of duplication preserved the name property but other kinds of duplication did not.

Do you see any advantage to having the copied object's name be empty / "unnamed" ?

- Michael