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Hi Guys, i have this problem. in my work, i need to use layers for the design, and sometimes i copy objects from other drawings, when i paste the objects in current drawing, they are pasted in their original layer, and then i need to change the layers of all the pasted objects to the current (active) layer. well, it doesn't sound very handful, but when i need to copy and paste a lot of them, it is quite a work to do. so, does anyone have a lisp routine that can do this; when i do the paste operation, it automatically changes the layer of the objects in clipboard into the current layer or say active layer? many thanks!

Hello all, I am having a heck of a time with AutoCAD lately. I have searched Google to death and scoured the forums for an answer to no avail...so here is the quandary... I have a few AutoCAD tables with data in them, and I want to cut (Ctrl+X) the data and paste (Ctrl+V) it into another table, but it simply will not do it! I can copy (Ctrl+C) it and paste it just fine, but when I Cut it it will not paste the values in other cells, or if I paste it separately into the dwg somewhere it will paste just the blank cells. example I'm sure it's some setting that I've overlooked but can not for the life of me figure out what it is... Thank you in advance for any help.

I want to copy/paste some items from one job into another job. I have reverted everything to layer 0 and there is no text at all in the items I am copying. When I bring it into the other drawing, all the text styles have come with it, which I do not want. I have tried to run 'purge' to get rid of them, and it doesn't work. If I try to deleter any of the text styles, it says they are in use (which they are not, since the new drawing has no text in it yet.... I am creating a new template and it is 100% devoid of text so far). What am I doing wrong?

I have a lisp that copies everything inside a circle, but I wish I can copy everything inside a closed polyline. Can you help me editing this code? (defun c:det (/ osm blip ent alist cir1 pt1 raio1 cir2 pt2 raio2 fator ss pt) (setq p1 (getpoint "\nSelecione o raio do círculo de ampliação:")) (command "CIRCLE" p1 pause "") (command "undo" "be") (setq osm (getvar "osmode")) (setq blip (getvar "blipmode")) (setvar "blipmode" 0) (setvar "osmode" 0) (setvar "cmdecho" 1) (while (not cir1) (setq ent (car (entsel "\nSelecione o círuculo a ampliar: "))) (if (and ent (setq alist (entget ent)) (= (cdr (assoc 0 alist)) "CIRCLE") ) (setq cir1 ent pt1 (cdr (assoc 10 alist)) raio1 (cdr (assoc 40 alist)) ) ) ) (command "copy" cir1 "" pt1 pause) (setq cir2 (entlast) alist (entget cir2) pt2 (cdr (assoc 10 alist)) ) (command "scale" cir2 "" pt2 pause) (setvar "cmdecho" 0) (setq alist (entget cir2) raio2 (cdr (assoc 40 alist)) fator (/ raio2 raio1) ) (command "copy" "cp" (foreach pt (pt_circulo pt1 raio1 T) (command pt) "" ) "r" cir1 "" pt1 pt1 ) (setq ss (ssget "p")) (command "move" ss "" pt1 pt2) (command "scale" ss "" pt2 fator) (repeat 2 (command "trim" cir2 "" "f" (foreach pt (pt_circulo pt2 raio2 nil) (command pt) "" ) "" ) ) (setvar "blipmode" blip) (setvar "osmode" osm) (setvar "cmdecho" 1) (command "undo" "e") (princ) ) (defun pt_circulo (centro raio inscrito / ang ndiv delta pt resp) (setq ang 0 ndiv 36 delta (dtor (/ 360 ndiv)) ) (if (not inscrito) (setq raio (* 1.0001 (/ raio (cos (/ delta 2.0))))) ) (repeat (1+ ndiv) (setq ang (+ ang delta)) (setq pt (polar centro ang raio)) (setq resp (append resp (list pt))) ) ) (defun dtor (a) (* pi (/ a 180.00)) ) (princ)

Hi Guys, I seem to be encountering this error quite alot recently. When i copyclip an item from drawing 1 into drawing two there seems to be not information pasted into drawing 2. No its not layers turned off, only seems to happen with certain files. I have done extensive research on this with no definitive fix.

I'm using AutoCAD 2015 on a 2D drawing, and usually use CTRL-C and CTRL-V for my copying. Today, for some reason, everything I copyclip and pasteclip comes out as a block reference. It happened first with a single-segment polyline, then I tried a few other objects - dtext, rectangle, closed polyline. Same thing. The regular copy command still works fine, however. Anyone have any idea what's going on? Is this a setting I inadvertently changed, or a bug? Also, this is a file I've been working in regularly for a year, and it's just today that I saw this problem for the first time.

Looking some something that will allow me to copy an xref from one drawing and paste it into another drawing while keeping the layer status from the drawing that it was copied from. When I copy and paste the an Xref into a new drawing; it converts back to the layer state that exist in the actual xref drawing itself. It would be nice if we could copy select layers from the layer dialog box and paste them back into another drawing and have them overwrite if the layer already exist. I have used layer states but it gets a little time consuming when working with drawings with over 400 layers. I have used layer states but they are a little time consuming for me. Maybe someone knows a trick to accomplish what I am looking for.

We have some drawings already made now we like to paste our logo image in all of them. Can we paste a single image in multiple drawings on fix location with fix scale and rotation without opening all the Drawing. Like batch processing or using lisp..

How can we copy an object in a drawing and paste it at multiple places using Autolisp. I have a dwg template that having many symbols in it. i have to use that symbols again and again in drawing. which symbol i want to use i select it than right click and copy and paste where i want to use. same thing happens for all the symbols whenever i need them. can we directly copy a particular object (hatch symbols, block etc) and paste it wherever we need it using Autolisp. We don't want to go to the original symbol location to select it and copy it to paste where we want to use it using Autolisp.: roll:

Hi, I wanted to drag a selection of objects (that are on different layers) and just cut n' paste them onto one layer (effectively merging them). Possible? Thanks

I upgraded form MEP 2012 to MEP 2013 a few months ago and have been unable to get past a bug. I used to paste values or series of commands in the command bar until this edition, in which I can only past items. Whenever I copy items from Excel (either single value or multiple cells) and Ctrl+V paste in the command bar it always brings up PASTECLIP. Does anybody know a setting/option/command that can put it back to values pasted in the command bar? Thanks

Using Autocad_2k10 and ScriptPro Trying to write a srcipt to copy/paste a certain amount of text in these coordinates (ie.: 1.8520, 13.1085, 0.0000) in 100+ drawings to a file (ie.: 123.txt or 123.xls) I'm stuck on the "paste to file", is this possible? Please advise, I'm using ScriptPro cause of the batch process. Thanks, BW Deen

Hi all, I've copied and pasted sections from old drawings into new ones, and it seems to have completely messed up some fundamental aspects of my AutoCad. After I pasted I received some error message which I didn't understand. I think it said something about a "Language" problem, (Needless to say I clicked the nice big "OK" button without any thought). Now, every time I open CAD there are these square symbols where there should be text - and I haven't a clue what's going on. I am running CAD from my company computer, so can't use the add/remove programmes repair trick. Does anyone know how I can reset all/relevant settings within CAD to get things back to normal? I'm running the 2010 model. Many thanks James

Hi there! I've got a drawing in Acad 2010 which consist of about 6000 lines. The image is a ship, and I need the drawing to insert in a HMI screen. Now my problem: The accomedation of the ship is white, as is the background of the sheet. I need the drawing with a black background, but want to keep the white color of the accomedation of the ship. When I change the backgroundcolor of the sheet to black, the white areas inside the drawing will also change into black. If I trie to hatch the white areas inside the drawing the program gives a messages that there are to many open bounderies. I tried to make a blok of the drawing and move it on a black square, but then again the white areas will turn black. So for short: How can I make the white areas non-transparent without using the hatch-command????? Thanks in advance!!