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I have found with v12, that when I copy an area of a drawing that had individual entities entered into the drawing (i.e. individual text notes and individually placed arrows) (CTRL C) and then paste that area onto a new drawing or onto a different area of the same drawing, the individually entered notes and arrows all get grouped together instead or remaining as separate entities.

I have this behavior whether I paste the items all to one layer or to their original layers. I have also found it to work this way whether Binding or not binding the information into the new file.

I thought I remembered with v11 that if I had entered individual entities on a drawing and then cut and pasted that information to a new drawing that it would paste into the new drawing and keep the individual entities attributes.

Did I recall incorrectly, is there a setting in v12 I am missing, or is the cut and paste function in v12 acting differently than it did in v11?

Hello David,

In the Copy menu, look for the Keep Groups button (near the bottom), and toggle it on to keep all the entities in their current groups.

My mistake. I meant the CTRL E function where we can copy items to the clipboard and then use CTRL V to paste those copied items to the same drawing, to another drawing, to the active layer, or to the original layers.

I still have v11 loaded and tried this function with it. I was correct in my recollection that when using CTRL E and then CTRL V with v11, individual groups of elements retain their individuality when pasted. I then tried it again with v12 and the CTRL E and CTRL V operation automatically glops all of the individual groups of copied info into a single group when pasted. At least from what I am finding, that seems to be something that changed in v12.

I would prefer how v11 functioned in this regard.

I noticed this today as well. I would vote for it to paste things in with their original groupings too.

This does appear to be a bug in 12. I have logged it so that it can be fixed.

Fixed for next update.

Additionally creating/exploding symbol would retain group information as well. Your existing symbols does not have group information, so all entities will be under 1 group when you explode them.

Additionally creating/exploding symbol would retain group information as well. Your existing symbols does not have group information, so all entities will be under 1 group when you explode them.

Does this mean new symbols will remember their previous groupings on an exploded insert?

Does this mean new symbols will remember their previous groupings on an exploded insert?

Yes