Cut & Paste hangs between drawings

[ABGroup]

Within AutoCAD LT 2008, I have two drawings open. I can click on an entity and right-click copy, with no problem. When I activate the other drawing and right-click paste, it may take up to 5 minutes before the entity is pasted. The entity can be as simple as a single line. The machine is a new dual-core machine with 3G of ram. I believe it may be an issue with the drawing, however I have gone through the process of cleaning and purging, but still no luck.

Please help.

Kind regards,

Harley

[LCE]

OK, and what are the results if you start 2 new drawings, draw and line in 1 then cut and paste it to the other?

[ReMark]

Does the drawing have a number of X-refs attached?

[Opc 12]

I had a similar problem, my pc was to slow and i didn't have enough ram.

That could be your prob.

By the way how big is the copied section if it is rather large then that might be your prob.

Try take a smaller piece to a new drawing.

[Opc 12]

Check that there is no associative hatch?

[ABGroup]

The two drawings could be empty apart for a single line and the same problem would happen.

[ReMark]

Please take a look at similar threads by using the Search option above. As your search criteria use the phrase "cut & paste". If you don't find a solution among the available responses that works for you please post back and we'll put our collective heads together and see if we can help solve your problem. Works for you?

[Ishea]

I was wondering has anyone had any success in finding out why some drawings were hanging when cut/pasting- I have similar problems because I do tend to do a lot of cut and pasting from various drawings etc. I have noticed that even if I purge the drawing - my drawings are slower to cut/paste in than another drawing using the same template, this is after I have cut/paste larger drawings or sections into it. The file size has only slightly increased from the main template, and I may have even deleted the items I pasted in as I only used them temporarily.

I have tried different machines with high specs and loads of ram. I have also cleared out the PC's cut/paste clipboard and even purged all temp files. It "appears" the cad file still contains some hidden information??? Has anyone else come across this – I have only noticed this occurring in version 2008

[ReMark]

Check this out. Note that at the bottom there is a reference to 2008.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=9240617

[Ishea]

Thank you Mark - that was it!!!!