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this weeks tip is:

copying nested items.

drawing onto your current working drawing. To do this you need to use the “copy nested items” command, or the “robin hood” as people in the underground world of “cad club” call it.

Let’s start out assuming you have a drawing open, as well as an x-ref drawing.

Type in: [ncopy]

You will then be asked to select the lines from the x-ref’ed drawing you like. Note: you have to pick the lines individually, you will not be able to use “window” or “cross window” to select objects.

After selecting your objects to copy hit [enter]

You will then be asked to “specify a base point”.

This is where this command gets a little tricky. As soon as you’re asked to “specify a base point” CAD shuts off your [osnap]. So you will then have to click on [osnap] and select what points you’d like to snap to.

After this, select a point on your x-ref file where you’d like to copy from, then select the point on your current working drawing you’d like to copy to. The lines you wanted will now be placed on your current drawing, on the current layer.