Trying to copy objects out of a drawing that says it contains proxy objects, what to do?

[ghunt4MWG6]

I am currently working in standard Autocad 2018. I have a survey basemap file that was sent to me, I believe it was done in Land Desktop but as it was sent it all looks like regular Autocad objects.

I need to copy the basemap objects into another drawing. When I try to copy with a base point it says "Copy to clipboard failed." If I try to WBLOCK it says it can't do it due to proxy objects.

I tried -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD and DWGCONVERT. With -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD it created a new file, but I get the same issues- if I WBLOCK the whole drawing, the basemap objects are missing for some reason. If I try to just WBLOCK the objects I need, I get the proxy object error still. DWGCONVERT didn't seem to do anything useful.

Is there another command I can run to get rid of the proxy objects? 

[pendean]

Share your DWG file here.

[ritzofriya · Accepted solution]

Turn On all layers

unlock all layers

unfreeze all layers 

do purge, overkill, audit, then flaten, 

then try again. it should work.

[ghunt4MWG6]

Well I got WBLOCK to work, not sure if the purge/audit/overkill/flatten chain was what fixed it or if I was doing something wrong with with WBLOCK but at any rate I got it copied over. Thank you all

[Valentin_CAD]

@ghunt4MWG6 ,

Try the suggestions on this link:

• "Copy to clipboard failed" when trying to copy in AutoCAD

[DPartanen]

This is a issue that pops up for me sometimes.

The best solution for me was converting the DWG into a pdf then importing that PDF into my template.