AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

I am working in Civ2010 and want the paste a site surface to my corridor surface.   However, when I try to do this, I get an error saying "Error performing edit".  I do not know what error is occurring in order to fix it.  I have done this with a few other sites within the same drawing and they pasted just fine to the corridor surface.  Any help would be of great assistance.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

The error might be happening because of a circular reference between surfaces.

Try creating a new surface and then paste the other surfaces into that to create the composite surface.

HTH

AWood

[#3]

Thanks AWood,

That seems to have taken care of the situation.

[#4]

Good call.  Had same problem.  Defined all the gradings & feature lines to a new surface name; and used it to paste to existing terrain.  Worked first time, after an hour of beating my head on the desk!

[#5]

I have this same error message in C3D 2013.

I have a blank drawing that I have data shortcut/referenced an existing ground model and a design model into.  I created a new blank surface (copy/paste surface) that I was going to paste the Existing Ground model into and then paste the Design Model into, but as soon as I try to paste in the existing ground I get the "Error Performing Edit" message.

This can't be a circular reference as the surface I am pasting my existing ground into has no data or dependencies at all.  I'm wondering if there's a limit to how many times you can paste surfaces together?  Or maybe a limit to the number of points/triangles that can be pasted in an operation?

I also suspect that maybe some of my references are corrupt...  I'm troubleshooting this one right now and I'll post more as I find it.

Matt H

[#6]

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MatthewHeal83 wrote:

I have this same error message in C3D 2013.

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I created a new blank surface (copy/paste surface)...

Matt H

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What does that mean?  Was it a new surface or not?

[#7]

Well, I wasn't able to find the source of the problem.  I was running out of time so I had to work around it.  Thanks for the vague error messages Autodesk...

[#8]

Well, in my office we call them a CP (Copy/pasted) surface.  Its a surface that has other surfaces pasted into it, like a composite or merged surface.  The CP surface has no data of its own except the surfaces that get pasted into it, so it has no dependencies and would not be subject othe Circular References problem.

[#9]

OK, I get it. The terminology confused me. Sorry I wasn't more help. Only thing I can think is that the surface you're pasting is corrupt somehow. What was your workaround?

[#10]

Best practices recommends you paste your corridor into a surface for composing. Leave your corridor clean and prestine