issues with COPYCLIP and PASTECLIP in autocad.

[Anonymous]

Sir,

I am having issues with COPYCLIP  and PASTECLIP in autocad. 

I want to copy/paste it into a new drawing, so we can have it in my company's template. And right now, the command is not working. In the client's drawing, when I COPYCLIP, the command line responded and found all the items. But when I tried to paste it into a new drawing, the command line just shows "_pasteclip" and nothing happens, instead of "_pasteclip Specify insertion point."

I am wondering if it is some sort of protection the client had setup in the drawing to avoid this whole copy/paste thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

try _COPYBASE and then _PASTECLIP, so you have really control about your insertion point.

Three issues are the most often ones when using clipboard from one drawing to another one:

• There are different units setup and so the destination objects are really small or really big (so out of screen). Try to run _ZOOM _EXTENTS and then type <CTRL><A> to see how many objects are now in your modelspace.
• You copy block-insertions and if that block-names (block definitions) already exist in the other drawing you have to make sure that the block-definition in both drawings are the same.
• In the source drawing you have PROXY objects, when you try to copy them it will fail as long as you don't have the application that created that object (or a good object enabler for that application).

When you can show/upload the source and the destination drawing where that happens we can try it for you on our systems.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Dear Sir,

Can you check this file. nothing happens, instead of "_pasteclip

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

[Kent1Cooper]

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@v.vijoy wrote:

... when I COPYCLIP, the command line responded and found all the items. But when I tried to paste it into a new drawing, the command line just shows "_pasteclip" and nothing happens, instead of "_pasteclip Specify insertion point."
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I suspect that it has nothing to do with the drawing file(s), but with the copying to the clipboard.  When there's nothing in the clipboard, the Pasteclip command does not offer an insertion-point prompt, as you describe.  So I'm guessing that there's some reason that the Copyclip command is not succeeding in putting things there, or there's something wrong with the computer or the Windows environment.

Have you tried it with different kinds of things?  Alfred's suggestion about proxy objects might result in nothing being in the clipboard, but if you try copying/pasting some ordinary things like Lines, you should be able to tell whether the process is viable.  Or try it entirely outside of AutoCAD, e.g. with text content between word-processor files or something.  Another check: if Copyclip appears to find all the items, can you then Pasteclip them elsewhere in the same drawing?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Your posted file needed a lot of purging (many DGN type content cluttering it), and AUDIT fixed one problem. I can copy/paste within the file easily in R2015, see attached, the cluster on the right is mine.

[Anonymous]

Can you expand on points 2 and 3. I don't know how to see what block definitions I have, or how to check what you suggesting.

[BrianBenton]

If a block is already in a drawing and your pasting in a block of the same name it will simply insert the block that is already there. I think that is what he was referring to. 

[Anonymous]

Got it!

Thank you so much!

[s.borello]

Your file could use a purge, and audit found 1 error.  I was able to copy / paste within your drawing and into another drawing.  copyclip and pasteclip worked fine... so did "control c" & "control v". 

[pendean]

I suspect they are not still waiting from the year 2015... .

[~Gokul]

Purge and audit your drawing then save it and open again. then try to paste your object. I hope this works

Thanks

-Gokul

[RobDraw]

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@~Gokul wrote:

Purge and audit your drawing then save it and open again. then try to paste your object.

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Didn't someone just say that two posts ago?

[pendean]

TLDR by chance 🙂

[~Gokul]

yup

[201610265BJ8S]

Hi The prob is still existing I used command Audit and purge it not solve it