topic Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers in AutoCAD Forum

Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:01:00 GMT

First off: Brand new to AutoCAD. I have inherited our Facility layout and am in charge of maintaining it. The person who created the current version didn't pay attention to their layers and now I have a cluster F#*$@ in front of me that I'm trying to clean up/recreate.

Secondly: I'm currently googling for a potential solution but not luck yet; so here I am.

I created a new drawing and want to copy the objects from the old drawing and paste them into the proper layers of my new drawing. Should be simple enough... ......

However, when I paste the objects (all the walls/doorways/structural properites) and paste them into the new drawing, all of the layers from the old drawing paste into my new drawing.

Can I just paste the objects and not the bee hives of a nest of layers???!!

Thank you all for your help!!!!

Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:15:59 GMT

Hi!

There's a few things you can do.

1st is to purge and _purge all unnecessary information.

2nd if the old layers wont go away you can try to "merge" this option you'll find into the layer properties manager, just choose the layers then right click and select "merge"

Later on you can try to double check your blocks and find out if you are bringing unnecessary layers into your new drawing template.

Good Luck, Suerte!

Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:34:47 GMT

Thank you for your reply!

Since I'm not sure the person that created this knew what they were doing/set everything up properly, I'm not sure how confident i am with purge.

I tried to merge all the layers together and it doesn't really seem to do anything. i still see all of the layers in the original file.

Why can't you just copy and paste an object!??!!

Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

edwin.prakoso — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:31:51 GMT

I'm not sure about your workflow, but you can change the object layers to the correct layers using Layer Translator.

You can create a backup of your existing file then fix the layer using Layer Translator. Use the file for copying the objects to the new drawing.

Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

sam-ellis — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:32:27 GMT

Hi Jason,

I have this very same problem, really frustrating. Even if i change the object's layer to, say, 'Layer 0', it still copies the object's previous layer, prior to that. I don't understand it.

Did you ever find a solution?

Sam

Re: Copying&Pasting objects into new drawing without pasting old layers

Moshe-A — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:01:39 GMT

@sam-ellis hi,

First, have you notice you entered a thread from OCT 2017?

Second, AutoCAD does not work like that, meaning if you copy a line(s) on layer "wall" from "dwg1" and paste it 'on' layer "dim" in "dwg2", layer wall comes with it cause copy&paste does not move objects between layers only changing objects layer will do that (use properties, chprop commands for that).

if you try to change layer to a block only the block inserted layer is changed and it also depend on how the block is built. if it contains objects on layer 0, these objects move to the changed layer, other objects remain in their layers.

Moshe