COPY/PASTE problem : objects are too big

[bachphi]

I have a DWG that was created by a regular autocad I think, because it has XY coordinates on the lower left corner. Now I when I selected objects from there and paste into my electrical drawing ( which has no XY coordinates) , they become so big that only parts of it were copied. Please give me step by step instruction so that it will all the objects in the drawing. Thanks in advance.

[mathalekar]

It is likely that the units might be different from source (original) and destination drawing. Check the unit settings accordingly, do the needful to match them and then peform the copy paste.

[jseefdrumr]

Whether or not the drawing was created in regular ACAD doesn't matter; ACADE is just regular ACAD with a couple of extra functionalities. Whether or not you see the XY axis is a display setting stored as a drawing variable.

I'm not sure how you are supposed to change the units of the source drawing as mathalekar suggested -- the UNITS command doesn't include such an option. All you can do is define what unit to use for inserting blocks into that drawing.

As for not all of the objects appearing...they're probably there, it's just that your drawing's limits are too small to show everything. Try to do a zoom extents. Double click your mouse's scroll wheel or type in ZOOM on the command line followed by E for extents. Can you see everything now?

What it sounds like to me is that you are working in Imperial (English/standard) units while the objects you copied were drawn in metric. This happens frequently with ACADE, all you have to do is scale things down to be the right size. The scale factors between metric and english are 25.4 (when moving from english to metric) and .039370079 (when moving from metric to english). I'm willing to bet that if you scale the things you inserted by .039370079 they will end up closer to what you want (if not exactly).

Hope this helps,

Jim

[mathalekar]

Does -DWGUNITS command help ?

This is still unknow if it is related to UNIT related case. But looking at the original thread, it appears to be. 

[Anonymous]

hi friends, i was in same issue, and i fixed my issue with 'Long Path Tool", if you want you can try with it, i hope it will fixed your issue, thanks 

[tmakuyana]

I had an almost similar problem. I made a copy of a drawing and copying entities from one drawing to another and using paste to original coordinates resulted in big objects. I figured it was an issue of Geolocation. I simply clicked on "Remove Location" on both files and everything was working well.

[JeffatPrimex]

This is an old thread lol but it sounds like INSUNITS is most likely the cause.

Best regards,
Jeff