https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688256#M4148 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13366130">@kmarmstrong</a>&nbsp;,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The object you are trying to copy-paste is 3D object and the view direction in target drawing is not perpendicular to the XY plane, the crosshair says about this:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" style="width: 694px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1164183i694CF2FD1A5DA196/image-dimensions/694x570?v=v2" width="694" height="570" role="button" title="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" alt="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>So you need to use <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDMAC/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-3779DF52-AA24-47D2-B72C-018D4A9011DD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PLAN</A> command in target drawing to correct the problem with view direction.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:21:04 GMT maxim_k 2023-01-18T14:21:04Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11687997#M4145 <P>I'm copying a simple object, picking a base point, and pasting it into another drawing and the chamfer gets distorted from one drawing to the next. Why? See photos.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT size="2"><a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13366130">@kmarmstrong</a>&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P><FONT size="2">The topic title has been edited to improve findability by @alina.balkanskaia. Original:&nbsp;Copy at basepoint and pasting to another drawing...</FONT></P> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:13:43 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11687997#M4145 kmarmstrong 2023-01-19T17:13:43Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688052#M4146 Can you share those portions of each DWG file that match your screenshots please? Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:17:22 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688052#M4146 pendean 2023-01-18T13:17:22Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688100#M4147 <P>Still getting back into the swing of CAD and don't remember how to share/save just portions. Maybe you can tell me, lol. Here are both full drawings. So simple yet so annoying. Thanks or the help. Really saves so much time for me to ask someone who is so experienced!&nbsp;</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:34:46 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688100#M4147 kmarmstrong 2023-01-18T13:34:46Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688256#M4148 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13366130">@kmarmstrong</a>&nbsp;,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The object you are trying to copy-paste is 3D object and the view direction in target drawing is not perpendicular to the XY plane, the crosshair says about this:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" style="width: 694px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1164183i694CF2FD1A5DA196/image-dimensions/694x570?v=v2" width="694" height="570" role="button" title="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" alt="2023-01-18_17-17-31.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>So you need to use <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDMAC/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-3779DF52-AA24-47D2-B72C-018D4A9011DD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PLAN</A> command in target drawing to correct the problem with view direction.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:21:04 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688256#M4148 maxim_k 2023-01-18T14:21:04Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688323#M4149 <P>Wow. Easy fix. I don't really get the understanding behind it. I get the one is 3D but why should the direction of the PDF underlay matter? Anyways, probably too hard to explain all that. THANK YOU! Fixed.</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:45:49 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688323#M4149 kmarmstrong 2023-01-18T14:45:49Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688329#M4150 <P>&nbsp;Oh I get it... never mind. No explanation needed. Just took a minute to connect the dots. THANK YOU so much.</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:48:07 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11688329#M4150 kmarmstrong 2023-01-18T14:48:07Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11691168#M4151 <P>Hello, <a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13366130">@kmarmstrong</a>! Nice to see you on Forum! Thank you for marking the Solution, and I'm glad you found the answer in the Community!&nbsp;</P> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:15:21 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/copy-at-basepoint-and-pasting-to-another-drawing-autocad-for-mac/m-p/11691168#M4151 alina.balkanskaia 2023-01-19T17:15:21Z