I would like to have a preference to toggle on or off whether an object copied and pasted from one drawing to another brings its class along with it.
The preference could work such that in the "on" position, a pasted object would retain its class and add it to the target document if not already there(the current way it works), or in the "off" position, the object would be moved to the "none" class in the target document and the class structure of the target document would be unaffected.
Despite the huge advantage and power of using classes in a drawing setup, we do not use classes in our office. The sole reason for this is the class management nightmare that ensues when moving objects of differing classes from drawing to drawing.
In our office we do a lot of re-use work, and we are constantly moving objects or groups of objects from one drawing to another. We deal with class problems on a daily basis.
Objects you know you pasted into a drawing seem to vanish, or worse yet the objects are visible but cannot be selected because their class is set to invisible.
Other times, a simple paste evokes the "rename class" dialog because there is already an entity in the drawing of the same name as the imported class.
Many of the problems we are having stem from class names we created years ago in MiniCad 6 or 7 which we now regret when upgrades to the software have changed the way classes are treated.
We have thousands of symbols we created a long time ago with embedded class names we no longer use.
The preference I request could make problems like these go away, and bad decisions we made years ago would not continually haunt us.
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I would like to have a preference to toggle on or off whether an object copied and pasted from one drawing to another brings its class along with it.
The preference could work such that in the "on" position, a pasted object would retain its class and add it to the target document if not already there(the current way it works), or in the "off" position, the object would be moved to the "none" class in the target document and the class structure of the target document would be unaffected.
Despite the huge advantage and power of using classes in a drawing setup, we do not use classes in our office. The sole reason for this is the class management nightmare that ensues when moving objects of differing classes from drawing to drawing.
In our office we do a lot of re-use work, and we are constantly moving objects or groups of objects from one drawing to another. We deal with class problems on a daily basis.
Objects you know you pasted into a drawing seem to vanish, or worse yet the objects are visible but cannot be selected because their class is set to invisible.
Other times, a simple paste evokes the "rename class" dialog because there is already an entity in the drawing of the same name as the imported class.
Many of the problems we are having stem from class names we created years ago in MiniCad 6 or 7 which we now regret when upgrades to the software have changed the way classes are treated.
We have thousands of symbols we created a long time ago with embedded class names we no longer use.
The preference I request could make problems like these go away, and bad decisions we made years ago would not continually haunt us.
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