I have a drawing in AutoCad Mechanical 2016 which shows our factory & all of the services, plant, phones, people, 1st aid etc. Each of these items is on a separate layer & I update them as things change or new items are added. Somewhere along the line I have lost information from this drawing so, for instance, I have a layer showing all the gas bottles on site but, with this layer turned on, no drawing features are shown. This has happened on multiple layers. I have found an older 'recover' drawing which has all of this information intact but some of the information is out of date.
My question is this;
Is there a way of copying a complete layer or multiple layers including all of the lines, text, blocks etc. from the old drawing to the new one. I have to confess that, although I used to be proficient in 2D AutoCAD, I struggle now as I mainly work in Inventor so I'm hoping someone can suggest a simple solution.
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