Jul 27, 2017 Of course there are add-on programs available that expand the clipboard and allow multiple copies to be retained. Ever since AutoCAD became a MDI application, it has supported cut, copy, and paste commands. But for the purpose of moving AutoCAD data around, the traditional Windows clipboard is not used. Apr 19, 2017 how to fix clipboard when it does not copy and paste. The clipboard would copy 'text only' and no images, but now works perfectly. The issue was the installation of a new firewall. The solution was to set firewall permissions for Office 365 and the Office clipboard began working fine.
Copying objects from one drawing to another is a common task. You can use the Windows Clipboard and the drag-and-drop methods. When working with 2 drawings open, choose View tab Windows panel Tile Vertically (or Horizontally) to view both drawings at the same time. Note: You can use these techniques within a drawing as well, but the COPY command provides more options and accuracy. Use the Windows Clipboard to copy objects between drawings Most people know that they can copy objects in a drawing to the Windows Clipboard and then paste those objects in another drawing.
But there are a couple of tricks to this process that can make your work go more quickly and provide more accurate results. Of course, you can use the common Windows keyboard shortcuts:.
Ctrl+C to copy. Ctrl+V to paste When you use the simple copy-and-paste procedure, you don’t have much control over the placement of your object in the second drawing.
That’s because this process uses the lower-left corner of the extents of the object as the base point, which may not be useful. For example, here you see this process with a circle. As you can see, the base point isn’t on the circle, making it difficult to place the circle accurately. Therefore, AutoCAD provides you with 2 special tools for copying and pasting.
The first is Copy with Basepoint. Follow these steps:. Hover the cursor over the object and right-click to display the shortcut menu.
For multiple objects, select them first, and then right-click. Choose (Clipboard,) Copy with Base Point. This is the COPYBASE command. As you can see in the figure, you can also press Ctrl+Shift+C. At the Specify base point: prompt, use an object snap to specify the base point.
Click in the other drawing. Paste, using Ctrl+V, or by clicking Paste on the Standard toolbar. You can also right-click and choose (Clipboard,) Paste from the shortcut menu. Your cursor is now at the base point you specified, so you can accurately place the object. Specify the insertion point you want.
Here, the base point was set to the center of the circle. The 2nd tool is Paste to Original Coordinates.
If you have two drawings that are very similar, you can use this feature to place the object at the same coordinates as in the original drawing. Just copy the object(s) to the Clipboard, and activate the 2nd drawing. Then right-click and choose (Clipboard,) Paste to Original Coordinates. If those coordinates are not in the current display, do a Zoom Extents to see the pasted object. Use drag-and-drop to copy objects between drawings Drag-and-drop doesn’t give you the same control over placement, but it’s a quick way to copy objects. Note that AutoCAD automatically copies objects from drawing to drawing, so that you don’t need to press Ctrl as you drag. To copy, select the object or objects.
Then click the object and hold down the mouse button until you see the drag-and-drop cursor. The only gotcha is that you need to make sure that you don’t click on a grip, because that will just make the grip hot. Then drag the cursor to the other drawing and release the mouse button to place the object. You’ll probably need to adjust the placement, using the MOVE command, or by using grip-editing. Updated with AutoCAD 2012 Draw and edit faster and easier with these top 25 productivity tips every AutoCAD user should know. Check out “Top Productivity Tips Every AutoCAD User Should Know” at.
Hello Ellen, I followed your copy and paste tutorial but when I paste into my second drawing the object is not to scale. Both drawings are copies of a “master” drawing of my factory layout. I created a new object (in this case a set of double doors) and grouped it. Since it didn’t work to scale I ungrouped and tried again with same result.
Then I grabbed another object created by someone previously and it works to cut and paste as it goes in to the drawing at the same scale. Do I have to set something when I am creating an object so it will copy and paste to scale in other drawings.
Both of my drawings are the same real life scale. Hello Ellen, I recently copied a small group from a drawing that had been made in and educational version of AutoCAD 2014 and pasted it into a large drawing made with a standard version of AutoCAD 2014. Now when the main drawing made with the standard version it opens it a drawing made with the educational drawing. Even after deleting the pasted items and purging the group and re-saving it still re-opens the drawing as if it were made in an educational version. Please can you tell me if it is possible to do anything about this?
Hi there, I have a problem and I have no clue how this happened nor how to solve it. Hope you have any idea. I copied objects (all located on 1 layer) from one drawing to another. After pasting it into the new drawing, also the layer where the objects resides on, is created.
But in this new drawing, I already have a layer for these objects. Therefor, I selected the objects and assigned them to the new layer. No problem so far. When I now select one of these objects, it shows the correct layer. BUT when I switch this layer on or off, nothing happens.
When I switch the original layer on or off, the objects appear and disappear. Next, when I want to delete the new layer, it says it’s impossible because there are some objects on it. Same for the original layer. What can I do?
Thanks in advance! I got some drawings from a vendor and need to copy/paste the content from the vendor Model Space into the Model Space of my new drawing. Ctrl+Shift+C works to bring over the material, but apparently there are various attributed blocks that all come over with different scales! Some of these seem stretched in only the X dimension, but when I check the properties (in both drawings) X=1, Y=1, Z=1.
For example, their title block comes over with the border scaled differently than the text block, but I can’t re-scale the parts independently. I also tried WBLOCK with similar results. I think their original drawings were auto-generated from ePlan.
I’ve never seen anything like this before. Has anybody got an idea of what’s going on??