Moving surface spot elevation from one drawing to another?

[deltacoolguy]

Moving surface spot elevation from one drawing to another?

I would like to move (wblock) a whole slew of dynamic spot elevation entities from one drawing to another, but when I do so it drags the surface and surface feature lines and creates another duplicate surface in the new drawing.  I already have the surface data linked in the new drawing.  I don't need or want another one.  I just want the surface label entities.  Tied to the same (d-linked) surface, of course, but I'm willing to reassociate the label entities to the surface, if necessary and if possible.

[Jeff_M]

There is no way to directly copy/move labels from 1 drawing to another. I've never even tried, but since you have and you've found it copies the surface the surface as well, you have 2 options (that I'm aware of) to get the result you are after.

Option 1: After copying to the new drawing, set the surface to not auto-rebuild; edit the surface defintion of the copied surface to remove all of the definitions; paste the surface you want the labels to be using into the copied surface.

Option 2: After copying to new drawing, use the SwapLabelSurface command found in the Sincpac-C3D; delete the copied surface.

[deltacoolguy]

I tried exploding the inserted block, then...

• ...changing the surface definition in Properties.  Would not allow me.

• ...deleting the duplicate surface.  I could do this, but the label entities disappeared as well.  I was hoping they'd detach and then maybe I could re-associate to the proper surface.  No go.

Oh well.

[Ed.McGriskin]

One way I would do it is save a copy of the drawing with the labels and then delete all the surface definition objects from the surface. This will leave a blank surface that your dref surface can be pasted into.