How do I paste to the current layer

[sharronjs]

Hello Fellow Cad Geeks,

 

When I copy an object and paste an object it pastes in the layer it was copied from. How do I get the object to past in my current layer?

[ReMark]

Where are we copying from and pasting to? Within the same drawing or different drawings? Are you selecting paste or paste as block?

[sharronjs]

Where are we copying from and pasting to? Within the same drawing or different drawings? Are you selecting paste or paste as block?

 

Hi ReMark. . .I am pasting within the same drawing. . .right on top of the object I am copying actually. I just want to paste it twice but have all three objects be in a different layer (one right on top of the other). I have figured out a few ways to do this but pasting in the current layer appears to be the fastest. . .if it can be done.

 

To answer your question, I am using Paste not Paste Block

[sharronjs]

Paste as block seemed to do the trick. . .everyone out there is probably saying "duh" right about now. I have no idea what that command means. . .I will do some research.

[ReMark]

See...I knew if I hesitated just a moment you would answer your own question. Paste Block means just that. The object is treated as a block.

[mahahaavaaha]

Hi,

 

you can also try using the copytolayer -command? (In the LayerII -toolbar)

 

Oops, if 2004 already has it?

 

/Petri

[orange]

"Paste Block means just that. The object is treated as a block."

yeah but as soon as you explode it, it will return to original layer , doh

:/

 

edit: i found out you can use XPLODE instead of EXPLODE to specify target layer that you should, um, explode into

[MikeScott]

Paste to layer.. sounds like a useful future function for AutoCAD.

 

When I have to do that kind of operation, I draw a random line off in the margins somewhere, copy the items from a specific basepoint, and then copy them to the endpoint of that line.

 

Then switch the layer on those items using group-select and use the move command from the endpoint of that line to move the whole thing back to the basepoint I'd used earlier.

 

Though normally, I avoid drawing the same thing in mulitple layers by having a "sub" layer that I leave on.. while switching everything else off and on. Like drawing the footprint of a building once, on one locked layer, and then putting electrical wiring, plumbing, etc.. on seperate layers.

 

Normally, I call it a sub layer like "elec-sub" if it's, for example, a part of the electrical layout that remains consistant in two different electrical wiring layouts... the other layers would be "elec-1" and "elec-2".

 

By only having it drawn once, it's much easier to make a change to it and be sure the change is showing up everywhere, rather than risk a distraction making me forget to change an item in multiple occurances.

[Arizona]

I do this:

COPY - pick stuff

Basepoint - 0,0

New point - 0,0

Now there are 2 on top of each other.

CHPROP

P - previous, selects the one you started with,

or L - last, the one you just created

LA - layer

Type the layer name you want it on.