What would be the reason for me not to be able to copy something from one document to another? I can copy and paste in the same document but not into other documents. Is there a way to fix this?

Draftsight

my co-worker also occasionally has this problem. It does not happen every time just once in a while.

So it has to be something else besides technique or installation. because two different people with lots of experience and two different computers.

Any other reasons?

I tested copy/paste on my system.  I started a new drawing and created a couple of objects.  Using the shortcut menu I invoked the Copy With Reference Point option.  I started a second (new) drawing and created a couple of objects then using the shortcut menu I did a Paste.  No problem.  I repeated this three more times each time creating a new drawing, adding a couple of objects then invoking Copy With Reference Point.  Each time I copied objects that were new in one drawing and pasted them in another drawing.  It worked each and every time.  By the time I was finished I had created five new drawings and copied at least two objects from each drawing into the next drawing.  I even went back and copied ALL the objects in drawing number one to drawing number two, then all those objects I copied/pasted to drawing three and so on until finishing with drawing number five.  I could NOT get the copy/paste command to fail.

My advice is to...1) Reset your Profile.  If that does not fix the problem then...2) Repair the install.

In my opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Copy/Paste procedure in Draftsight.

The only other thing I can think of that would account for the problem would be a corrupted drawing.

Have you installed any new software lately?

What anti-virus program are you running?  Are you using any programs by Symantec?

Have you tried disabling your anti-virus software then running Draftsight?


Edited by John Connor - 11.Sep.2013 at 13:24

So what happened?  Did you get it fixed or not?