Blocks pasted from another drawing come in rotated

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen this problem before?  I'm not sure what causes it, but it's annoying.  If I copy objects from one drawing onto the clipboard....and paste them into another drawing that already contains some of those blocks...many, but not all, of those blocks will paste in rotated say 90 degrees....or mirrored... from the original drawing.  I can't figure out why or how the block definition is corrupted; it's just annoying.  The only way I've found to fix it is to rename that existing block in one of the drawings, such that when you paste it into your drawing, it thinks it's never seen that block before.

Anyway, it's happening in a lot of our drawings, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this kind of behavior also?  Appreciate any help!

[Kent1Cooper]

It sounds like you may have Blocks defined under the same name but at different orientations in the different drawings, even if their insertion points and contents are the same.  Try Inserting one at 0 rotation in each drawing, to see whether they're oriented the same way.

If they are really defined the same, including their orientation, are you perhaps in a different UCS in one drawing than the other?  Are the ANGBASE System Variables set the same in each?

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

This thread was just auto-escalated and came to my attention. Has your issue been resolved or do you still need assistance?

Please update your status in a post. If you attach both versions I would be happy to take a look and make suggestions to correct the error.

[Anonymous]

have you checked the ucs in both files

[TCorker]

I am having the same issue.  It seems to primarily occur with drawings that were converted from DGN to DWG.  The curious part is that if I open a blank drawing, I can COPYBASE from the source drawing and paste (ctrl+v) into the blank drawing with no issues.  Something in my particular drawing has a setting that is causing many blocks to rotate out of position.  If someone has a solution, aside from exploding the entire drawing, please share.

[cadffm]

Hi,

share your target and source file, mark one blockreference we should use for a test.

Without the drawings it is just guessing.

[TCorker]

After consulting with another draftsman, he believes this issues is the result of that particular block already existing in the drawing.  The block has been defined somewhere else and is therefore taking on the state of that block definition and then assigning the properties from the block copied over. 

If the block does not physically exist anywhere in your drawing, try purging (PURGE) the block and then repasting it in.  Otherwise you may have to rename that block so it is unique from its twin.  Alternatively, as mentioned in my previous comment, you can EXPLODE the whole thing and just copy over the linework.