cut/copy/paste objects turns into block

[skhatri]

I am using AutoCAD 2016 and just realized when I copy or cut a group of objects and paste them into another place in the same drawing, it automatically turns them into a block! does it have to do with the system variable? Please help!

[imadHabash]

Hi,

usually in AutoCAD when you use:

- Ctrl+Shift+v  the objects copied to the Clipboard are pasted into the drawing as a block at the specified insertion point and the block is given a random      name.

are you using this command -if not- give us more detail about the way and the name of blocks that insert?

[jggerth]

If your copying in the same drawing, then quit using the Windows Clipboard copy, and use the native AutoCAD COPY  command.

Same for 'cuttin',  just MOVE the entities to where you want them.  Vastly more effective than wasting effort and cpu on the ClipBoard,

Reserve that for migrating stuff between drawings.

[skhatri]

thank you for getting back. I am not using Ctrl+Shft+C to copy. I used to be able to copy/paste objects using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. But if I use the Autocad command COPY, it does not turn the objects into a block.

[skhatri]

thank you! I used to be able to copy/paste by using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V without turning the objects into a block. I guess I will have to get used to COPY command now.

[pendean]

There are to "paste" commands in AutoCAd: PASTECLIP and the block-creating PASTEBLOCK.

You somehow redefined CTRL+V to PASTEBLOCK command since CTRL+V out of the box is always PASTECLIP command.

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@pendean wrote:
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You somehow redefined CTRL+C to PASTEBLOCK command since CTRL+C out of the box is always PASTECLIP command.

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[That should be Ctrl+V rather than C.]

[skhatri]

I think it had to do with one particular cad file. I opened a new file and my Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works fine. thank you for getting back to me.

[pendean]

Thanks for catching my typos @Kent1Cooper

[wispoxy]

#A COMMENT TO AN OLD THREAD FROM 2016

Just had a weird issue with AutoCAD 2017. I used Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) many times to copy objects to different locations. Eventually and randomly during the process my objects started pasting as blocks with random names. The issue was annoying, I looked for solutions and it brought me to this thread that mentions the use of the regular COPY command. The regular COPY command still caused my objects to turn into blocks with random names. I then looked into my System Variable Monitor and it showed nothing changed. I saved my .dwg project, closed AutoCAD completely, then re-opened my .dwg project and the issue went away.

Just bringing attention to AutoCAD 2017 users with similar issues.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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Just had a weird issue with AutoCAD 2017. I used Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) many times to copy objects to different locations. Eventually and randomly during the process my objects started pasting as blocks with random names. The issue was annoying, I looked for solutions and it brought me to this thread that mentions the use of the regular COPY command. The regular COPY command still caused my objects to turn into blocks with random names. ....

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If regular COPY is turning them into Blocks, something's really wacky.  How are you invoking it?  If you start typing the command name, and it goes into auto-fill, are you sure you're "getting" the right command, and it's not [for instance] defaulting to COPYCLIP as you pick or hit Enter or something?

As to the wacky names, people may be interested in this routine, which redefines the PASTEBLOCK command, so that [whether invoked with the command name, or a menu item, or Ctrl+Shift+V] it requires you to give the Block a meaningful name.  If you have that in place, at least you'll be able to tell when "eventually" starts, by the alert box that comes up to ask for a Block name, and you can cancel that.  Then investigate what you've done most recently that may have changed something about how COPY works.

[cadffm]

You have a problem with your HDD space or your temp folders are full with waste.
CleanUp your temp folder. Win %TEMP%

HTH

[kaspars.kluga]

Don't know what was the problem, but closing file and restarting AutoCAD fixed this annoying issue for me too. Thanks for grate idea :D!

[atqUGCS4]

I'm having the same issue, but restarting does not solve. Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V says that it's COPYCLIP and PASTECLIP in the command line, but pastes even a single line as a block.

[jrogulski]

Which system variable is responsible for "paste objects as a block" every time I'm doing this?

I want to change value to paste objects as a objects.

[scottB65KM]

I am having the same problem with copied object pasting as a block. This happens if I use the shortcut keys Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) (Which I have done for years without issue until recently) or if I use the COPY command.

I have opened and closed, restarted and looked at every setting I can find. All of the commands and shortcuts appear to be associated correctly. 

This issue appears to me isolated to a drawing which I have been working on for a couple of months. Other drawings still work as they always have.

Any suggestions will be welcome.

Thanks

[cyberflow]

I have a fellow coworker who's having the same issue.

When he does a copy and paste (With shortcut key or command) it creates automaticly a block.

He's working thru Projectwise, dunno if that could be a issue.

[Kent1Cooper]

[Also in belated reply to Messages 15 & 16:]

I can only imagine that, as suggested by @pendean in Message 6, somehow the PASTECLIP command has been differently defined to operate like PASTEBLOCK.  Where that could be coming from, you would need to find [I know nothing about Projectwise, whatever that is] -- an undefinition/new-definition within, or loaded by, your acaddoc.lsp file, perhaps?  I would at least suggest you look closely at what happens at the command line when you hit Ctrl+V, and/or that you type in  the command name PASTECLIP, make sure auto-complete isn't jumping to something else, and see whether the same thing occurs.

[scottB65KM]

I had the same problem with a drawing I was working on last year. I have no idea what triggered the issue. Nothing seemed to resolve the issue.  The issue was only only happening in the drawing in questions. I ended up just copying what I wanted into a new drawing and the problem was not there in the new drawing. 

[cyberflow]

After talking to my coworker he said to me that the drawing was created thru Microstation and then exported in DWG.

All of the main xref's are made like that.

I don't know if this rings a bell for someone.