outside of the maximum drawing boarder

[paulchecksum]

In the process of creating a drawing, something happened I think when I was trying to create splines, i don't know what I did. Whenever I hit "zoom-all", the screen expands enormously so that my entire drawings is but a small dot in the lower-left of the screen. When I try to select all the area outside my drawing borders i get "no entities found". When I try to copy the whole drawing or parts of the drawing to a new sheet it won't work and gives the following message: "This operation would cause objects to be created outside of the maximum drawing boarder." Rather than redrawing it over again I thought I would post this. Does anyone know how to solve this?

[Admin 1]

There has to be something there or it wouldn't expand that far out. Maybe you should try viewing it using the alternate black background.

[i44troll]

The Boss is right, there may be a misplaced entity that was drawn or pasted outside the main drawing. You can also find your drawing and select it, copy it, and then paste what you have to a new drawing workspace after deleting the problematic workspace. Make sure you backup the first drawing in case that fails. We'll try something different if you continue to have a problem.

[paulchecksum]

(08-07-2014, 03:13 PM)i44troll Wrote: The Boss is right, there may be a misplaced entity that was drawn or pasted outside the main drawing. You can also find your drawing and select it, copy it, and then paste what you have to a new drawing workspace after deleting the problematic workspace. Make sure you backup the first drawing in case that fails. We'll try something different if you continue to have a problem.

The problem though was that I could not move any more than a small part of my drawing. You know that when you select a section then hit the copy button, a rectangle ghost of your image appears waiting for you to drop it where you want to move it. Well this was not happening. When I tried pasting the selected images into another DC space or even in the current drawing, I would get the message "This operation would cause objects to be created outside of the maximum drawing boarder."
Today I change to black background and still didn't see anything besides my drawing. I carefully selected a region under the drawing that just skimmed the bottom, hit the Erase button and this time it snagged on something! After deleting "IT", whatever it was, my drawing now works. I can hit zoom-all and it opens to the drawing boundaries.
Thank you for your response

[Admin 1]

Apparently some portion of what ever it was that you dragged-and-dropped was, in fact, outside the limits of the DC drawing board. I'm glad that you resolved it.