Copy in Drawing Issue

rexalan60

I updated my CC3+ to the newest version last night. Now, while working on a map I began before updating, the "Copy in Drawing" tool is acting weird. Before the update, I could copy as many times as I liked, and the map did not redraw until I manually did so. Now, after each "copy", I get the "I am thinking" circle! As I sometimes make a like of copies of a particular symbol on one of my maps, read in the hundreds or even thousands, you can imagine how long it would take to complete a map!

Any ideas out there? Is this happening becasue of the update, as I suspect? Or something else. If it is the update, I may have to reload the program from the begining and forget the latest update.

Thank you in advance.

[Deleted User]

I get this too, and also in the last update. A real annoyance when working on a big map.

Loopysue

I'm not getting it myself, but I'm not doing any copying.

What is it that you are copying so many times, rexalan60? I'm trying to imagine when I would need to repeatedly copy things, but with symbols you just keep pasting, which is different.

The only time I copy things is when I'm actually drawing new stuff, like steps for a staircase and so on, but even then there are only as many copies as there are steps...

JimP

I use COP to copy a symbol around a map, for some symbols. I have the latest update installed and it works fne for me.

Monsen

Can confirm this, but I also dug back in the release history a bit, and can replicate this issue all the way back to CC3+ 3.84. Seems to be a change done almost a year ago that causes this

Monsen

A workaround for this issue is to temporarily disable redraws (the RDOFF command) and then enable it again when you are done (RDON)

rexalan60

Thank you for the work around. That did the trick.
I am wondering if the update changed my settings, as I had not used the "rdoff" command prior to this.

Monsen

Another workaround is using clipboard copy instead. It does a redraw when you hit paste to start the operation, but after that you can place the copies without delay.

Monsen

Got word that this issue will be fixed for the next update. In the meantime, please use one of the workarounds I posted above if required.

JimP

I finally get it.

That happened to me when placing symbols in a city drawing on Monday; however, I stopped placing them and used COP to just copy them around the map and that worked faster and better.