Paste/copy issue

[JBTC.Dave]

I am using 2013 autocad LT. When I ctrl-C  and Ctrl-V It asks for a insertion point, I select my point and click, but it doesn't paste anything. What can I do to fix this?

[doni49]

If it asks for the insertion point then there IS something on the clipboard for it to paste.  If you pick an insertion point and don't see anything, here are a few different possibilities that come to mind.

• The objects are on a layer that's off and/or frozen.
• You've pasted a block.  But the block is already defined differently in this file than in the source file.  That leads you to beleive it didn't paste it in.

Copy your destination file to an alternate location.  Then delete EVERYTHING out of the file -- but don't purge.  Now paste in your items and do a zoom extents.  What do you see?

[pendean]

CTRL+C, then open a new blank empty file, CTRL+V to paste it then Zoom Extents: does it show up?

[JBTC.Dave]

no it does not. But if I open a new file I can paste my whole drawing in and start copying and pasting, until about 10 copy and pastes in then it quits pasting again.

[pendean]

CTRL+C creates a temp file in your Windows Lig-in Temp folder: does it disappear after 10 uses too? It's a DWG file, can you open it and see which generation copy is still there?