Pasting between drawings becomes unreadable lines

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am trying to copy from an old drawing and paste into a current drawing.

Any information pasted into the current drawing becomes unintelligible single vertical lines all originating at the insertion point (they seem to overlap each other)

these lines can be edited (double click) and then the original data (be it text, lines blocks etc.) become visible, but once edit is over, the inserted material reverts to a line.

the data is corrupted somehow.

It is very strange.

If I open a new drawing and paste to here the problem does not occur. But I want to use my current drawing as a start point.

I have purged and audited the current drawing and makes no difference. This is very strange why only a line would appear.

If I plot preview the information still appears as a line so would plot as a line.

can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks

[leothebuilder · Accepted solution]

These two drawing files have a different UCS setting.

After pasting the info into the drawing file switch the view to isometric and you will see the result.

Just rotate the pasted objects in 3d to the current UCS orientation

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

I had to understand UCS before I could understand what you wrote.

It is Autocad2013LT so is a 2D package, not sure what I did to fix it but works now. Rotating the axes.

Isometric doesn't seem to be an option. I did see the coordinates were not the same after you pointed out UCS, one was XY one was XZ.

thanks for your help, now fixed.

[leothebuilder]

You're welcome.

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