Error pasting surface

[jbear0000]

I have a drawing that contains the Aerial suface. I also have a drawing which contains the EG surface. The Aerial surface is data referenced into the EG drawing. I created a new surface called EG and tried to paste the Aerial surface into it and get an error that says "Error performing edit". I have read other messages that say that this is because of the Aerial surface being a data shortcut, but I have done this many times in the past with surfaces that are data shortcuts. There should be no reason that a data shortcut surface can't be pasted.

EDIT: Also, even when both surfaces are contained in the same drawing I still get the message "Error performing edit". Any ideas on what is wrong?

[neilyj666]

Some sort of circular reference going on???

[jbear0000]

No, I am getting closer to figuring it out. The Aerial surface is corrupt, so I recreated it. It is not corrupt until I add the boundary around it, then for some reason it becomes corrupt.

[Joe-Bouza]

I have the exact same problem. I removed the data, map cleaned all the contours and points but cant get rid of the error. is you error message also report curupt surface?

the surface works fine until I try to paste it.

[jbear0000 · Accepted solution]

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@Joe-Bouza wrote:

I have the exact same problem. I removed the data, map cleaned all the contours and points but cant get rid of the error. is you error message also report curupt surface?

the surface works fine until I try to paste it.

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Yes, a corupt surface was the problem. I figured out how to fix it though. See this thread for what I did: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Corrupt-Surface-Boundary/td-p/3061526

I don't know if the problem with your surface is also the boundary, but that is a good place to start.

[david.dixon]

yep yep. I find that using "LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP" to produce a surface boundary often causes surfaces to be corrupt and not be able to be pasted.  The command sometimes creates a boundary that is "not planar" to world coordinates and C3D doesn't like that.

[C3D_TomR]

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@david.dixon wrote:

yep yep. I find that using "LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP" to produce a surface boundary often causes surfaces to be corrupt and not be able to be pasted.  The command sometimes creates a boundary that is "not planar" to world coordinates and C3D doesn't like that.

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If you use LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP for objects that are all set to elevation 0, does it still corrupt the surface for pasting?

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