ACAD2007/2008 cut & paste

We have both ACAD & SW here and both are used for their own purposes. But
we also have to share info back and forth and it has always been a simple
task to highlight some sketch entities in ACAD and then paste those entities
into a SW sketch. However, we have found that with ACAD 2007 or 2008, when
the sketch entities are pasted into a SW sketch in either SW2007 or SW2008
they come in as one OLE drawing object, which is junk, not as the sketch
entities.

I think the testing we have done back and forth has narrowed it down to a
change in the ACAD environment. My reasoning is because I can use DWG
editor to open an ACAD 2007 file, highlight the desired entities, copy to
the clipboard, and paste into SW2008 as we used to do with ACAD 2006. Or I
can tell SW to open the ACAD file directly and it works.

So the question is, has anyone figured out what's going on? Is there a way
in ACAD 2007/2008 to tell it to copy just the entities as it used to do?

WT

 

I had the same issue awhile back, when we upgrade autocad, it didn't
copy and paste no more, I asked around but no one new about it because
they didn't copy and paste from autocad to solidworks, just didn't use
that feature, so I had to stop using it to since I didn't really know
what happened. It would be nice to know the limits, version
compatibility, between autocad and solidworks with the copy/paste
functionality. One idea I never tried was to open the drawings file
dwg in SolidWorks dwg editor and copy and paste from that, but it
would be a pain to open it again in another program just to copy and
paste. Might as well block it out and just insert an autocad block in
your drawing, what I a do every time now, and it can be linked, so its
an alright alternative.

 

I have the same problem trying copy and paste out of Autocad LT 2007.
Both of you probably know what I just stumbled on: Autocad drawings
can be drug in from the library as a block. Very helpful since what I
was trying to do was revolve cut a hydraulic valve cartridge that was
drawn in Autocad.

 

I would use the WriteBlock command in AutoCAD to create dwg files from each
sketch entity I wanted to use in SW.

Bob

 

You are aware that Autode$k changed the file format in Acad '07 and
again in '08. If SWX hasn't made the changes to accept the "new"
format, it wouldn't come in.
R. Wink

 

I agree and which is what you would think is the root cause. However, if
you open the same DWG file with DWG Editor to cut and paste out of there, it
works fine. Which suggests that it's not the ACAD2007 file format, but the
ACAD2007 environment that is loading the clipboard.

WT.

 

stuff pasted to the clipboard is an ole

Bob