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Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

mechengineer987 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:53:17 GMT

I am experiencing what seems to be a bug related to the copy/paste text in an idw. I am using release 2025.1.2. When I create a text box or leader text and add some text and click OK, everything is fine. When I go back to edit the text box and try to paste something into it, the paste does not work. I can copy text from another application other than Inventor and paste into the box without issue. It is just not working when I copy the text from Inventor and try to paste in an edited text box. I have attached a video showing my issue. Has anyone experienced this or give me some idea as to the problem? We recently updated from 2019 so I am just now experiencing this issue.

I have also included a pack and go of the files. The file name is 95052-1376-1.idw. Thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

CGBenner — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:09:16 GMT

@mechengineer987 Welcome to the forum!

In your video it looks like what you are copying is a symbol, and not text? How was that symbol generated? Are you also trying to copy the dimension itself? Hard to tell since it looks highlighted.

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

mechengineer987 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:21 GMT

It is a symbol in the video however the same problem exists if I try to copy and paste plain text. The symbol was generated by originally copying off of a google search from the internet. We have been using this symbol and this method for quite a while now, probably around 5 years so I cannot remember the exact website. I am only trying to copy the symbol and not the dimension.

Thanks for taking a look!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

johnsonshiue — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:06:23 GMT

Hi! I cannot seem to reproduce the behavior on my machine. It could be related to the display. If you are using dual monitors, please make sure the one hosting Inventor is the primary display.

Many thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

mechengineer987 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:37:21 GMT

Hi everyone. I appreciate everyone's help with this. I tried other displays and still have the same issue. I have attached another screen video I took further showing the issue. I attempted to try again, and I had success in pasting to existing leader texts. However, as seen in the video it seems that when there is a fraction in the leader text, the paste function does not work. Sorry for the 1-minute-long video, but I was trying to demonstrate it working sometimes but not others. Maybe this will help lead to a solution? Thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

CGBenner — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:59:52 GMT

@mechengineer987 Hello, we are all just getting back from Autodesk University...do you still need help with this question?

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

mechengineer987 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:18:44 GMT

Hi, yes, I have not come up with a solution. I did post another screengrab to show something that may be related to the issue in my previous reply. Thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

CGBenner — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:36:37 GMT

@mechengineer987

Hi again. I watched you video, and that's just weird. We need to try to find a pattern to this... In your video, the one time it did not work was when you entered a fractional value shown as diagonally stacked. Can you test this work flow with decimal text, and also with fractional text not stacked? Just to see if you get the same results? Maybe we can start to narrow things down.

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

johnsonshiue — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:21:40 GMT

Hi! It seems to be related to pasting to a stacked text. I am able to reproduce it on 2025.1.2 but not on 2020.5. Something must have changed. I need to work with the project team to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

johnsonshiue — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 05:12:50 GMT

Hi! The issue has been confirmed by the project team. It is reported as INVGEN-81505.

Many thanks!

Re: Issue With Copy/Paste in IDW

tlebrun — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:20:47 GMT

I just discovered that I have this problem too! Stacked text was the culprit.

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