Copying Expressions

[nostupidquestions]

Is there a way to copy expressions between drawings? Is it like copying styles with drag and drop?

[dana.probert]

copy a style that uses the expression with drag and drop and the expression will come.

[nostupidquestions]

for some reason it doesn't work for me. all i get are ???. it's a structure lable that's supposed to show top, throat & eop elevations. the top elevation shows but not the rest. i copied it from a 2007 project.

[Anonymous]

I'm also not getting the exprssion coming along with a style into a new drawing.

[Anonymous]

If an expression does not drag and drop, you can create a text object in the style you want to drag it with, set the display to off and set the text value to the expression name.

I had to do this for profile labels because I had an expression referenced within an expression and the first expression dragged across with the label style, but the referenced expression did not.

[CADmgrMike]

I know this is an old post, but I'm having the same issue in 2016.

I imported updated styles with expressions into and older drawing, and the expressions don't come with the update.

I used the C3D Manage/Import and also the import button with the Sincpac add-on.

[CADmgrMike]

Never mind. Audited the destination drawing and issue was resolved.

[Joe-Bouza]

I battled this for a while abd another colleague came up with a neat trick. this may be of interest to you

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/expressions-loose-predefined-parameters-what...