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Problem in copy and paste

mbazbaz25 — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:43:16 GMT

Hello,

I've got a problem in copying and pasting from file to other, when i copy a (line, text, block,..etc) ,and paste to anther file it keeps giving duplicated in the command window and not pasting.
Any solution?
thanks

Re: Problem in copy and paste

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:49:51 GMT

Hi,

>> it keeps giving duplicated in the command window and not pasting

Can you please show a screenshot of what you are seeing in the command line?

And are you sure it was not pasting? Have you tried to paste into a new drawing, have you done a zoom-extents after pasting?

- alfred -

Re: Problem in copy and paste

mbazbaz25 — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:32:41 GMT

It's keep giving this.
if i open a new drawing and paste on it , then i save the draw i want to paste to and reopen it , sometimes it success

Re: Problem in copy and paste

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:07:45 GMT

Hi,

what you are seeing is not an error message, it's just the information that AutoCAD recognized that a block-definition "_Oblique" already exists in the destination drawing, so it does not need to copy the definition of the block, but it does paste what you have in the clipboard.

If you can paste the content of the clipboard into a new drawing, you can also paste it into any other drawing.

The only thing you need to take care about: whenever a definition (block-definition, text-style, dimension-style, ..) already exists in the destination drawing AutoCAD will use these definitions when pasting the geometry.

That can make things difficult, e.g. if you want to copy blocks named "TABLE" (defined as rectangular shapes) but you already have a block called "TABLE" (same name, but this time defined to be circular) in the destination drawing then pasting geometry will paste ==> insertions of block "TABLE" at the points of your source dwg, but the shape as it's already defined in the destination dwg. So you copied rectangular tables and pasting shows round tables, just because the block-defintion "TABLE" already existed.

- alfred -

Re: Problem in copy and paste

mbazbaz25 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 06:12:56 GMT

hello,
i tried to redefine all blocks before copying and paste from anther file, but it doesn't success.

is there any alternative way to do it?

I found if i use anther PC at the office the (copy-paste) success , but on my PC it doesn't success.

so i think it's a problem in the software any way to solve it ?

thanks,

Re: Problem in copy and paste

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 06:36:49 GMT

Hi,

>> i tried to redefine all blocks before copying and

>> paste from anther file, but it doesn't success.

IT does not matter, how blocks are defined. As long as block definitions exist in the source drawing and the destination drawing with the same name you'll get that message about duplicated definitions.

But for now we (I) don't really know what else happens, what ends with no success. The message itself is not a problem, it's just a message/an information.

Attach the 2 drawings, the source dwg with the objects you want to copy and the destination dwg, where you want to paste the geometry so we can test with that data.

Also describe step-by-step what you are doing, what you get in AutoCAD command line displayed and what you expected.

- alfred -

Re: Problem in copy and paste

alex101000 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 06:44:38 GMT

Do you have a clean AutoCAD installed on your computer with a problem?
Are there any add-ons or Object Enabelers ?