Copy Vector related to Xref?

[Steve_Bennett]

Has anyone heard of such a command relating to xref's?

[jaberwok]

Copying lines from the xref to the host?

[Maverick91]

Has anyone heard of such a command relating to xref's?

Are you looking for the Express Tool command NCOPY?

[Steve_Bennett]

Copying lines from the xref to the host?

That was all the person gave me to go one. I really hate guessing games. I'll go probe some more...

[Steve_Bennett]

Are you looking for the Express Tool command NCOPY?

What does it do? If I knew what it did, I'd know if I'm looking for it...

[Mike.Perry]

What does it do? If I knew what it did, I'd know if I'm looking for it...

Hi

Below is taken from the AutoCAD Express Tools Help File...

NCOPY

Copies objects nested in an xref or a block.

Select nested objects to copy: Use an object selection method
Specify base point or displacement, or [Multiple]: Specify a point, or enter M for multiple copies
Second point of displacement: Specify a point

Have a good one, Mike

[Steve_Bennett]

It's getting clearer. No, it's not similar to ncopy. It's closer to the command "Paste to Original Coordinates". The difference is it would address the issue of having rotated your UCS. Let's say you have linework in drawing A & you want to copy it to drawing B. Both drawing A & B has the building elevations done in a pinwheel layout around the buidling floor plan. If you used copy vector to copy linework from A to B & B had the drawing UCS rotated 180 degrees, it would address the rotated UCS & still place the line work in the same location in B as it was drawn in A.

Clear as mud?

[jaberwok]

Brother Steve - that sounds just like the way acad behaves anyway. Have you tried it?

[Steve_Bennett]

Brother Steve - that sounds just like the way acad behaves anyway. Have you tried it?

Nope, sorry Brother John. I just tried it to confirm my thought. If you copy linework from dwg A, go to dwg B, rotate the UCS 180 around the z axis & use paste to original coordinates, you will not get the linework back in the same location/orientation as dwg A.

[jaberwok]

Nope, sorry Brother John. I just tried it to confirm my thought. If you copy linework from dwg A, go to dwg B, rotate the UCS 180 around the z axis & use paste to original coordinates, you will not get the linework back in the same location/orientation as dwg A.

Maybe not the correct location but you should get the correct orientation - it's a start.