(MICROSTATION CONNECT) Pasted objects coming in at a larger size than original.

Hi Chris, I might be few years too late, but hopefully the reply will help someone else with the same problem.

I had possibly the same problem today. What happened was, I was scaling something else (a PDF) just before the copy and paste. So when I activated the scale tool, I left the scale settings as 'active scale' 1.03434543... etc etc. When I finished scaling the other unrelated object, I left those scale settings and moved on to copy and pasting cells from another file.

Then the items pasted from clipboard all adopted that 'active scale' 1.03434543... etc etc. Which suggests the scale factor doesn't just affect the scale tool, but also other tools like copy and paste between different files weirdly enough.

After I went back into the scale tool, and changed active scale to 1:1, the items copied and pasted exactly.

I know many people suggest referencing, then copy, but if you're only copying something really quick, e.g. 1 sink, into like 20 apartment plans, I think it's silly trying to reference 20 times, in which case, just need to make sure your scale tool 'active scale' is set to 1:1.

Hi Chris, I might be few years too late, but hopefully the reply will help someone else with the same problem.

I had possibly the same problem today. What happened was, I was scaling something else (a PDF) just before the copy and paste. So when I activated the scale tool, I left the scale settings as 'active scale' 1.03434543... etc etc. When I finished scaling the other unrelated object, I left those scale settings and moved on to copy and pasting cells from another file.

Then the items pasted from clipboard all adopted that 'active scale' 1.03434543... etc etc. Which suggests the scale factor doesn't just affect the scale tool, but also other tools like copy and paste between different files weirdly enough.

After I went back into the scale tool, and changed active scale to 1:1, the items copied and pasted exactly.

I know many people suggest referencing, then copy, but if you're only copying something really quick, e.g. 1 sink, into like 20 apartment plans, I think it's silly trying to reference 20 times, in which case, just need to make sure your scale tool 'active scale' is set to 1:1.

Thanks Mate! You are a lifesaver. This works perfectly. Was trying to copy a bunch of reference drawings which were listed as text, this is the easiest way.

I would have never thought to check the scale tool- thank you! I was using ctrl+c and ctrl+v because I was copying into sheets at different rotations! Thank you!

Vincent Hsu said:

but if you're only copying something really quick, e.g. 1 sink, into like 20 apartment

IMHO I would make a cell of this sink especially if its a feature that's used a lot like a fitting  ie a sink and  could be used again in other  projects at a later date also finding it  would be easier if its in a cell library .. and  if its a cell then doing report or counts on how many specific type of sinks used etc is really  easy for  bill of materials reporting and costing...oh  and its easier  for doing an array if its in the same  position in a series of floor plans too.