How to "deassociate" a "pasted" surface

[Anonymous]

Hi guys;

I'm working with several surfaces on my drawing. One surface is made, and other, and this two surfaces are pasted in a third one.... this third one is pasted on another one and so go on...

The problem is that with so many surfaces associated together, autocad always find a way to error/close the program when i'm traying to rebuild a previous surface.

My question:
For example: I create the "surface 1" and paste it on another surface ("surface 2" in this case).. there is a way that i can make this "surface 2" independent from the previous one, so can i delete/modify the surface 1 without afecting the surface 2? I tryied extracting points/countourns from surface 2 and create another surface (ex: surface 3), but this last surface will lose many details that I had in surface 2.
I wonder if there is any other way.

Sorry about my english, I hope I have been clear.
Thank you

[C3D-Nash · Accepted solution]

Right click on the surface in Toolspace, select Create Snapshot. It should now be independent.

[Pointdump]

Rodrigo,

In Surface Properties you can un-check any individual edits, including surface pasting.

Dave

[Anonymous]

Hi, Dave.

The way you explained will return the final surface to the shape it was in the begining. My intention was to keep the final shape of the surface. So C3D-Nash solution solved my problem. Thanks!