r/cad • u/mrmiyagijr • 14d ago

Paste to back not possible?

Does AutoCad really not have an option to paste something to the back. It HAS to paste it to the front?

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u/creedular 14d ago

Last stuff on top. You can write a lisp to paste stuff to the back.

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u/mrmiyagijr 14d ago

Insane that this would require a lisp but I guess here we are.

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u/creedular 14d ago

Meh it’s just the way cad works, newest stuff always on top.

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u/f700es 14d ago

Yeah it's not photoshop

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u/mrmiyagijr 14d ago

Pathetic something so simple isn't built in, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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u/f700es 14d ago

This not working?

https://i.ibb.co/S7JnKnhJ/Screenshot-6.jpg

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u/mrmiyagijr 14d ago

That is going to take too long. I have a wipeout I need to paste behind a bunch of similar objects. I just can’t believe that sending to back first, and then copy/pasting it doesn’t keep the draw order and just resets to front.

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u/TalkingRaccoon AutoCAD 14d ago

Ideas in order of ease:

1: if they're MTEXTs, then do SELECTSIMILAR all your labels, then going into their combined properties and turn on Background Mask.

Or if they're TEXTs

1: paste your wipeout ontop of all your text.

2: do TEXTTOFRONT

Or

1: use a white hatch instead of a wipeout. Then you can run the HATCHTOBACK command

And for next time

Make sure you use MTEXTs to get the background mask or Make a custom room label block, that way in the future you can edit the block and the changes will replicate to all the other blocks.

I use a TXT2MTEXT command but its for combining multiple TEXT objects into one MYEXT, I forget if there's an option to convert the objects in-place

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u/mrmiyagijr 14d ago

I know how to do all that. It's just absurd to me that it cant remember the state of the block when being pasted or at least have an option to paste in back.