Expert: Bill DeShawn - 11/10/2006

Question
I'm having trouble copying selected layers from one drawing to a new one. Generally I select the layers and use COPY WITH BASEPOINT and select 0,0, open a new drawing and click PASTE TO ORIGINAL COORDINATES - but when I try to choose it now its non selectable. Any help.

Answer
John:
The PASTEORIG command paste objects into a drawing other than the original drawing and at the original coordinates when you copied the objects to clipboard using the COPYCLIP command (Ctrl+C).  That's not the COPYBASE command and you won't be required to enter a base point when you copy the objects to the clipboard.  If you used COPYBASE to copy the drawings to clipboard, you will of course be asked for a base point.  Then you use the PASTECLIP (Ctrl+V) command to paste to another drawing, you must specify the same coordinates for the insertion point.  In your case: 0,0.  Remember that the PASTEORIG command does not work with COPYBASE like it does with COPYCLIP and when you use COPYBASE, you need to use PASTECLIP to paste the objects and you need to specify an insertion point.

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