AJSmith Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 trying to copy info from one drawing into another have do this 3 time before and not the 4th time i get the message Copy to clipboard failed what have a done and how do i fix it??? many thanks Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I've had similar problems. I was told it would be fixed at a later date. Perhaps in an Update or addressed in 2011. For me sometimes it works no problem and other times it doesn't work at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJSmith Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 oo is a odd on out of the 7 drawings im using 2 dont wanna copy the info i have tryed resetting my PC and trying again but still dont work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJSmith Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 i got it i have to insert the drawing in to a fresh drawing as a brock then exploded it and copyed the info i needed and it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I'm glad you found a workaround but we shouldn't be having copy/paste and/or copyclip errors in AutoCAD or any other AutoDesk product. This is one of those errors that has been around so long it makes me wonder if they just decided to ignore it. Jeez, didn't we have this type of crap happening all the way back to 2000i? That was several releases ago. Fix the damn code! Sorry about the rant. It's like potholes. They get patched every year but nobody does anything about a long term solution to the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukecad Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Copy / paste was a big problem in early releases of 2007. Autodesk released a 'Hotfix' and addressed it in a service pack, but is was (and still is) a problem for years because people did not apply the Hotfix or SP to their 2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Note: Both the OP and I run 2010. I'm not working with any 2007 files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscuits Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 We have the same problem here. It appears that files saved in the early version of Acad2007 before the fix have this problem. (Bug resides within the drawing file itself.) We are now using Acad2010 and I'm guessing that when an older file (possibly saved or created with Acad2007) is opened, this bug shows it's ugly head. My fix has been to do a file save & close then open the drawing back up and the problem is fixed. This fix works only if the copy/paste command was executed and given a chance to fail. A file save & close is not enough. It's also possible a template saved or created with early Acad2007 can carry over this bug as well. Give it a try. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Thanks for the info Biscuits. I've got some old 2007 files at home I can experiment with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Lloyd Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Yes, i have this problem also AC2010 even with servicepack 2 (english release 3) When using the keyboard CRTL-V then i can paste all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qball Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 I just had this problem. I closed and opened the file (for an unrelated issue actually) and now it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canalon_CAD Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 La opcion que encontre para poder superar este error es: convertir el archivo dwg en dxf, cerrarlo y abrir el dxf. El inconveniente que encontre es que desabilita los bloques dinamicos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbdesign Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Translated above: The option I found to overcome this error is: convert dwg to dxf file, close and open the dxf. The drawback I found is that disables dynamic blocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrazawan Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 i can't get it ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLittle Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 I am experiencing this in 2011. I have been beating my head all day trying to copy and paste from one drawing to another. Today I discovered I get the error every time I try to copy a multileader note. When I look at the properties on these it is listed as "ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY" instead of a multi leader note. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Has the drawing been saved back to a previous version? Is this in just a few drawings or all drawings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLittle Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 This occurs in all versions of the same drawing. Yes, this drawing was converted from one format to another. It started as a 2007 drawing and has now been changed to a 2011 format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 trying to copy info from one drawing into another have do this 3 time before and not the 4th time i get the message Copy to clipboard failed what have a done and how do i fix it??? many thanks Adam From the Knowledge Base, autodesk.com IssueWhen you copy any object in a drawing file and try to paste it into a new drawing, nothing happens or you receive an error stating that the command is invalid. Solution Depending on the error, use one of the following two workarounds for this issue: If you get the "Invalid" message: On the command line, enter mlinestyle. Click to exit the dialog box. Try to paste again. The error will no longer occur. If nothing is pasted: The base drawing that the Copy command is being initialized in is corrupt. Recover the base drawing. Copy the objects again; Paste should now work. For more information about drawing recovery, see the related solutions. I found in 2012 Suite that if the Sketchbook Designer is installed the copy/clip and the clipboard (from the Labs) will not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I am sure this will be resolved before the release of AutoCAD 2111, so just hang in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoW Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Sorry to bring an old topic back to life but I was experiencing the problem also "copy to clipboard failed". In my case I digged throug the whole drawing and found that there were a few polylines (rectangles) that were causing the problem. So selecting 10000 objects, was no problem but with one of these polylines it did not work. So I simply exploded them and can move on. I thought I post it here, maybe others can benefit. I guess the object itself was somehow corrupted. Recover / audit / purge however did not notice any error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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