Copying Layers bewtween to Seperate Drawings

[Filemon]

Hello all, newbie in the Autocad world here. Pretty good at Inventor though.

 

Ok here's the catch, I'm trying to take a layer from drawing #1 and place it in drawing #2. Both of them have a lot of layers. 

 

I know this has been covered for years using DC in previous version of autocad.

 

But when i do, I open DC in drawing #2, fetch the layer i want from drawing #1 and drag it into drawing #2. It works as i can then see it in the layers of #2 in DC but it won't appear in the drop down menu of layers on the top ribbon. 

 

Running inventor 2024. 

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Phil

[Filemon]

Sorry meant to say i'm running Autocad 2024 as it says under my name. My bad!

[Steven P]

easiest way is to draw an object on drawing 1 on the right layer, copy and paste into drawing 2 and delete both objects

 

You could look at Lee Macs website, and his Steal LISP which will do the same

[CyberAngel]

3 hours ago, Steven P said:

easiest way is to draw an object on drawing 1 on the right layer, copy and paste into drawing 2 and delete both objects

 

You could look at Lee Macs website, and his Steal LISP which will do the same

That's the way I've always done it. Works for multiple layers and linetypes. If you're only using the source drawing as a reference, you don't need to erase the objects, just close the drawing.

[BIGAL]

Lee's steal.lsp is great for this and can be called with no user input using a lisp where you have a list of layers wanted. Or make a list on the fly.

 

(Steal dwg lst)