Bit of an old topic, but response may be revlevant to some. I agree regarding Copy/Paste. I'm in the habit of Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V, works in SolidWorks 
. Anyway, I found the Copy Translate tool and made a map key from it. Now I can type 'cx' then select my item, give it two more clicks for 'from-to' location, done. Two nice things, the tool has an arrow indicator, and the screen can be panned via middle mouse button or 3Dmouse 
. Here's the mapkey code if anyone is interested, plug it into your config.pro file.
mapkey cx @MAPKEY_LABELCopy-Trans;~ Command `ProCmdDwgXformTranslateCp`;\
mapkey(continued) @PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;~ Activate `GET SELECT` `done_sel`;\
mapkey(continued) @PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;@PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;1;