Copied Object Pastes in Wrong Location

[jkamler]

I upgraded to AutoCAD 2023 for Mac.  When I copy CMD-C any object (2D or 3D) and then paste CMD-V (specifying 0,0,0), it erroneously offsets the pasted object.  In previous versions specifying 0,0,0 using CMD-V always pastes at the identical origin of the copied object.  The farther the copied object origin is from 0,0,0, the less the offset error, which is actually weirder.  Is there a new global setting I'm missing.  This seems like a bug.  THX.

[maxim_k]

Hi @jkamler ,

If you use COPYCLIP (Cmd+C) and PASTECLIP (Cmd+V) commands, then the behavior of the 2023 version is no different from previous versions.

When you use COPYCLIP the base point for pasting is assigned to the point in the lower left corner of the visible area of the current viewport. So if the lower left corner of the current viewport in the source drawing is not 0,0,0 and you paste into the target drawing with 0,0,0 coordinates, the objects will be placed to the target drawing with an offset compared to the original coordinates in the source drawing.

This is true for the case when the current coordinate system in both drawings is identical.

[jkamler]

@maxim_k  Thanks for the reply.  But I have to respectfully disagree.  I've been using AutoCAD for 12 years and know how it has been working.  This is the first time it has behaved different from how I'm describing.  I upgraded from the 2018 version to the 2023 version.  I couldn't figure out the weird behavior.  So I downgraded to the 2020 version (oldest version still downloadable), and it works perfectly.  There is either a bug in the 2023 version or there is a setting somewhere that I don't know about.  Putting #,#,# with CMD-V is supposed to specify where to offset the pasted object in 3D space relative to the absolute origin from which it was copied.  It doesn't refer to some arbitrary corner of the viewport.  So 0,0,0 means ZERO offset in any direction.  If it was somehow pointing to the corner of the viewport, you would never be able to paste something back into the same position in any straightforward manner if you changed the view.  NOTE: I'm copying and pasting within the same drawing using the same coordinate system.  So something has gone sideways somewhere between the 2020 version and the 2023 version.  I haven't checked any of the versions in between.  I'm just glad that the 2020 version works properly.  I suppose it could be a hardware compatibility problem.  I'm running Intel silicon machines.  Maybe the 2023 version requires the newer Apple silicon.  Dunno.  But I would assume that if that were the case, it wouldn't even install or run at all.  Maybe try one of the other post-2020 versions to see if I run into the problem.

[maxim_k]

@jkamler ,

What macOS do you have on your Mac?

If it is Ventura - have you installed the latest Update to 2023 version after you installed it?

Do you use COPYCLIP command or COPYBASE? You can control future insertion point of the Clipboard contents only with COPYBASE command.

The only one difference related to copy-paste via clipboard in the 2023 version is the new command - PASTEORIG.

Here is how COPYBASE - PASTECLIP works regarding to viewport:

[pendean]

@jkamler Since the problem is best identified in your DWD file with the objects inside it, why not share that DWG file over here, identify these objects, and let us replicate it to see if we can identify the underlying issue?

12-years of experience you have should confirm to you we need that since like you we've all used AutoCAD for at least that long or even longer, and all of us are 2023 users too.