It is now easier to move the drawing around and text can be placed next to it.ĭon't use the Insert/Picture/From file function in Word. Right click on the drawing and choose Format Picture/Object. Use the trim feature on the Picture Toolbar to crop away any excess white space because there will be alot of it. In Word you can now use either Paste Special from the pull down menu for an embedded object, or CTRL-V to paste.

CTRL-C to copy whatever part of the drawing that you need. After pasting you can even start drawing edit session by double-clicking on the drawing object.Īdditional comments (by 'omega'): In AutoCAD Options change the model space background to white. Now we have to ‘ specify the height of the text ‘. AutoCAD will ask for the ‘ start point of text ‘ otherwise the insertion point of the text. Use Edit/Copy (Ctrl-C) in AutoCAD and Edit/Paste (Ctrl-V) in Word. Type in -TEXT in the command prompt of AutoCAD and press the Space bar. You can use Copy/Paste to move AutoCAD drawing to Word (or any other Office application) including special objects (eg. Works quite well but copy paste.How to copy AutoCAD drawing into MS Word document? Not one line-element is drawn twice, it is just presented differently as the particular plan (layout) demanded. AutoCAD makes a copy of the files using the criteria you specified in the. It was obviously done in manner of time saving (probably the fastest way of drafting I've ever seen) and consistency of planes in mind. table styles is similar to creating and using text or dimension styles. Quite hard (almost impossible) to separate because the model is used in addition to layout layer overrides to present elements in all necessary ways for each plan, 148 layouts. This is a very complex dwg with ALL the plans for a building of 6 underground + 8 floors above ground. Thing is there are 22076 rotated dimensions in a dwg, all in one layer.Ĭould the number of elements be the problem, and how would one solve that? Overkill, I've used with acceptable level of 'overkilling' When I do the paste, it simply says nothing, nothing is pasted, file remains the same in size. I do not get the message about ignoring block definition, and I should be getting it. No messages out of the ordinary, actually if i copy in block that already has definition in, I've used -pu in all possible ways of course. That was the problem in the old one was it not. It seemed natural to continue where someone stopped.

Cad cannot copy and paste text styles