Copy cogo points from one drawing to another

[Bennos1]

Hi,

I would like to copy cogo points from one drawing to another, keeping both their layer and user defined properties.

I can:

1. Do a copy and then paste to orginal co-ords. This keeps the layers but loses the UDP's.

2. Export the points to a csv and import into new drawing. This keeps the UDP's but loses layers

3. Export to XML. This loses both Layers and UPD's

I don't have a desc key file setup for the codes on these pts so this is not an option.

Does anyone have a solution?

Cheers

Ben

[BrianHailey]

Haven't tried it but, wblock->insert?

[Jeff_M]

Nope, UDP's never make it to the new dwg. 

[BrianHailey]

Just did my own round of testing, just to prove everyone wrong and, guess what, I couldn't get them to come accross either. Even made sure the same UDP definition was in both drawings and, nothing.

Sounds like a bug to me. If you are on subscription, you should log this with the powers that be.

[Bennos1]

Thanks Brian and Jeff for the feed back.

[OMCUSNR]

Save the original drawing,and thenimmediately Save As to a new file name.  You now have a copy of the original.

Reid

[Bennos1]

Hi Reid,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I need those points (along with their layers and UDP's) to be copied into an existing drawing.

Ben

[BrianHailey]

Xref and bind?

[OMCUSNR]

OK, so then INSERT the existing drawing into the new base with cogo point.  Now you have both drawings melded together, and you can save as again to over write the old one or go forward from here with a new drawing.

Reid

[Jeff_M]

UDP's do not get copied between drawings, no matter how you try to do so.

[ryanquigley2390]

Have you tried copying the other way?  I mean copy the other drawing into the drawing with the points and UDP's?

I would imagine you could use some combination of freezing/thawing layers or qselect to whittle your Point UDP drawing down to just the points you want (and corresponding UDP's) and then copy the other drawing into this drawing?

Do UDP's come over in an AECCIMPORTSTYLESANDSETTINGS or AECCIMPORTSTYLES command?

[Bennos1]

Hi Guys,

I just found that if I xref a drawing in to another (and this xref has cogo points that have UDP's). If you click on the xref then right click and choose bind then insert. Once inserted explode that block. All the UDP's are retained.

[dkelso311]

Saw this post and thought I was home free.....not the case

I brought the XREF into the drawing using the Bind, Insert then explode, however my points did not retain the most important property....the dragged (aka pulled locations) for each cogo point.

As I am a surveyor updating a huge ongoing asbuilt dwg. I surveyed a small area and used a clean dwg to draft and contour, however I would like to insert this small dwg into the larger ongoing dwg. While inserting I run into the same problem as mentioned above. Any new thoughts on this subject??

(my Top Curb and Flowline shots are pulled so that they look like an MLeader, however when inserted into the ongoing dwg, they lose the pulled state and insert on their exact coords. relative to their style anchor point.)

C3D 2012

Thanks,

Grubby Loooking Surveyor