It takes several minutes to paste

Hi!

I just found this site and have already picked up lot of things.

Now to my (first) question:

When using copy/paste in some of the drawings I work with, it takes some minutes before I can paste. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to paste a single line or a large block.

Does anyone know what I should do?

Does this happen in every drawing? Does it happen in a brand new drawing? How's your computer in general? Is it just AutoCAD that is sluggish?

How are you copying the original information? Copy with base point or otherwise?

Tiger: It doesent happen in every drawing only in some. In general I don't have a problem pasting but, like I said, in some drawings it takes a minute or two.

The computer I'm using isn't exactly top of the line but I have minmum requirements (I think...) .

Lee Mac: The problem occurs both when copying with base point and just copying.

In the drawings that it is happening in, are they large files (possibly 3D) files?

My guess is it is the regen that is taking a long time when you paste.

The files are

I just been testing a few things. I restarted CAD and opened two new (empty) drawings. I drew a line in one file and copied it to the other. No problem. Also tried it the other way around and it worked just fine. I then opened one of my problem files. I copied the line from one of the new drawings to my problem file and it wasn't any problems. Then i copied a line from the problem file to one of the new empty files, and then the problem occured again. After that I couldn't copy from one empty file to the other without it taking a long time.

could be a lot of junk that gets transferred with your copy - have you tried Purge and Audit on the problem file?

I get this problem as well from time to time, most often with files that I haven't started myself, files that we have gotten from architects, other engineers and the like. Purge does wonders with them (most of the times). My reasoning is that there's a lot of junk in them; dimstyles, textstyles, layers, unreferences x-refs and whatnots..

It doesn't help using purge or audit.

Just like you Tiger, I usually start with an empty drawing since I've noticed that it's often problem continuing drawing in files from architecs. In this case I've taken over a file from a colleague and I'm not sure of its origin.

That's probably it then - murky origins = murky files...

If this is a file that you need to work a lot with, it might be a good idea to spend some time to copy-paste everything from the file into a brand new file (from your own template) and hope that the troubles get filtered out.

i've had this problem before. if restarting doesn't work, audit the file.

I have this problem at the moment as well. It will generally randomly pop in halfway through a drawing, possibly after the copying and pasting of block from another drawing.

Auditing and purgeing does not work with me.

I have found only one temporary solution, though its not cure, just a way around some of the annoyance.

If you want to paste it multiple times, once it finally allows you to paste (generally 20-30 seconds on my computer) press Esc. Now it should let you Ctrl-v straight away.

Haven't found a complete solution yet, just being careful with what blocks I bring in.