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Copying / pasting an object like a line from one DWG to another dwg also pastes dimension styles and text styles.

gccdesign
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Copying / pasting an object like a line from one DWG to another dwg also pastes dimension styles and text styles.

gccdesign
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Using Autocad 2021.1, when I copy with base point an object like a simple line or a point and paste it into another DWG file, it also pastes dimensions styles and text styles. This is even though no dimensions nor text objects were selected or copied or pasted.

This has been the case for quite awhile in Autocad, not just 2021.

 

Autodesk support tells me this is a limitation of the software.

I don't like to get drawings cluttered up with random dimension and text styles from other drawings.

It's a lot of extra steps to purge and delete these styles later.

It also pollutes office standards and you can start getting other standards mixed up as more people use files with these added styles.

 

Anyone know a way to avoid this happening?

 

GChapp

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pendean
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Everything, and I mean everything, associated with the objects from the source file tag along and enter your destination file when you do that. That's a 30+year feature of the program you are using.

To avoid it, you need to strip what you do not want in the source file from those objects before you copy it over.

Yes, its just as much work. Nope, no easy way to do it any other way without some pre-planning on your part by ensuring your source file conforms to your standards for settings/names etc. using CHECKSTANDARDS command to minimize "new foreign things" entering your destination file.

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gccdesign
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Pendean,

 

I don't quite understand your answer.

I understand that things associated with a line (just a line) will be copied and pasted. The length, layer, linetype, etc. will be copied/pasted.

But if nothing having to do with a dimension or text style is copied or pasted, why are dimension styles being included?

 

And how would one strip dimension styles from a line? Why does a line (or circle, arc, point, etc.) have text and dimension style info attached to it? Do you mean strip all text and dimension styles except for the default ones from the entire source file and purging them before copying just a line (in order to avoid pasting unwanted styles)?

 

Thanks,

GChapp

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pendean
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You may be grabbing more than just a line.
You may be grabbing content from a vertical version of AutoCAD.
You may be using a vertical version of AutoCAD.

If you' like to post your source and destination DWG files here and explain inside each how to replicate your issue we can do that, otherwise we kind of rely on you to do the testing with remote help like this.

or do this: turn off PICKFIRST and PICKADD variables for the day and try to repeat the problem with a new set of files, see what happens.

TIA
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