Cut and Paste Hotfix

This hotfix will correct a problem where cut and paste, copy and paste, block and insert, wblock and insert, and drag and drop operations fail in drawings that are saved in AutoCAD^® 2000 and AutoCAD Release 14 file formats.

Description of Problem

If you open or create a file in AutoCAD 2007 and save it in AutoCAD 2000 or AutoCAD Release 14 file formats and then open the drawing in AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002 or AutoCAD Release 14 and attempt to cut and paste, copy and paste, block and insert, wblock and insert, or drag and drop objects, then these operations will fail.

Once the hotfix is installed, drawings that are subsequently saved in AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD Release 14 formats will work as expected. However, drawings that were previously saved in these formats from AutoCAD 2007 will continue to have the problem unless they are resaved with the hotfix applied. The 2000 from 2007 Find Utility can be used to help identify those drawings. If you have a large number of drawings that need to be resaved, DWG TrueConvert is a free utility that will make the job easier. Make sure you apply the hotfix to DWG TrueConvert before resaving the drawings.

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Note: AutoCAD 2000, 2000i and 2002 all default to the AutoCAD 2000 file format.

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Affected Products

• AutoCAD^® 2007
• AutoCAD^® Electrical 2007
• AutoCAD LT^® 2007
• AutoCAD^® Mechanical 2007
• Autodesk^® Architectural Desktop 2007
• Autodesk^® Building Systems 2007
• Autodesk^® Civil 3D^® 2007
• Autodesk Inventor^® Professional 11 ⁽¹⁾
• Autodesk Inventor^® Series 11 ⁽¹⁾
• Autodesk^® Land Desktop 2007
• Autodesk Map^® 3D 2007
• Autodesk^® AutoCAD^® Revit^®> Series Building 9.x ⁽²⁾
• Autodesk^® AutoCAD^® Revit^® Series Structure 3.x ⁽²⁾
• DWG TrueConvert^™

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⁽¹⁾ Apply this patch only if the installation includes AutoCAD Mechanical 2007 or Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 2007.
⁽²⁾ Apply this patch only if the installation includes AutoCAD 2007.

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Installation Instructions

To install the Cut and Paste Hotfix

1. Close the affected application(s).
2. Find the acdb17.dll file in your product install folder; for example, c:\program files\AutoCAD 2007.
3. Check the version of acdb17.dll.
   
   
   • Right-click acdb17.dll ; click Properties > Version tab. Note the file version.
   • If the version is greater than or equal to 17.0.103.50, you already have this hotfix. Do not attempt to apply the version of the .dll associated with this hotfix or you could potentially overwrite other hotfixes.
   • If the version of the .dll is less than 17.0.103.50 then proceed with the installation of this hotfix.
   
   
4. Rename the following file:
   
   
   • Right-click acdb17.dll and rename it as acdb17.bak.
   
   
5. Download the acdb17.dll to your product install folder.

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   Note: If you need to remove this hotfix, simply delete the new acdb17.dll file that you downloaded to the product install folder and restore the file you renamed in step 4 to its original name.

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