Trouble with copy and paste

[Siberian]

A particular drawing of mine has started to act up! I can not copy proxy objects! If I select the object and and use the COPY command everything seems fine until I try to paste it somewhere. When using PASTE, what appears at the command line is "Command: _pasteclip", but nothing has actually happened on screen. What also appears when selecting many objects is

 

"Command: _copyclip 302 found

Error: Cannot open extension dictionary"

 

This doesn't seem like a good message. Saving the file under a different name and location does nothing. Using the copy button works fine though, but that brings me no closer to copying objects between drawings. Any ideas...?

[benji]

Are you sure it is not copying at all?!

 

Some times i have problems copying from drawing to drawing and it pastes it in, but miles away from were i snaped it too!?!

 

Try ZOOM EXTENTS and make sure its not there.

 

 

I am no expert but maybe it may be simpler than you think!?

[GE13579]

After "Command: _pasteclip" are you getting the "Specify insertion point:" prompt? If not I think it means you have nothing on the clipboard.

 

I'm also confused you're getting a COPYCLIP error from a COPY command? If you're using COPY are you specifying a base point?

 

Failing the above I'm not too sure what might be the problem sorry.

[wbsherlock]

I noticed this thread was a few months old, but I have started having this same problem with one certain drawing. I can copy objects from another drawing, but when I attempt to paste those objects into this certain drawing, I get that same command line "pasteclip" message. However, nothing has been pasted. I've tried copying with and without a base point, zooming extents to make sure I haven't simply missed the object and copying from various other drawings to ensure that it wasn't just the drawing I was copying from that was the problem. It's the drawing I'm copying to that seems to have the issue. Did you ever resolve this? I'm sure it's a setting somewhere.

[ReMark]

Was the drawing originally done on a later version of AutoCAD and "saved as" a 2000 drawing file?

[dtkell]

Was the drawing originally done on a later version of AutoCAD and "saved as" a 2000 drawing file?

 

That usually is the culprit.

[wbsherlock]

Yep, that actually is the case. It was created in 2005 and saved to 2000. That must be a quirk of some sort. Any way around it?

[ReMark]

Yes. Use DWG TrueConvert. Thanks to a link provided by RKM you can download it by first going to:

 

http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2008/04/dwg-trueconvert-2007-is-still-available.html

[dtkell]

... Use DWG TrueConvert. ...

 

Or if your IT doesn't allow you to download and install unknown programs, you can flatten everything to zero elevation, then do a "dxfout" or save as a .dxf file and then open and save as .dwg.

This should enable you to copy and paste.

[GE13579]

You can download DWG TrueView from Autodesk- so the IT dept shouldn't have a problem with it, I know ours doesn't.

[wbsherlock]

Well, the IT department is me... and the CAD operator... and the secretary... and the bookkeeper. Such is the life of a small business owner. I downloaded the file and ran it on that particular drawing as well as another one that wouldn't let my osnaps work. Both had been drawn originally in 2005. It worked!! Thanks so very much to everyone who takes the time to voluntarily help out here with suggestions.

[ReMark]

Good to hear your problem was solved and that we could be of service.