Live dimensions expand when pasted or duplicated using any method
If you want to make a copy of existing artwork with dimensions, you have to remember to lock the layer (which gets unlocked anytime you create a new dimension), and select only the artwork, or these live dimensions just die...
...but the dimensions don’t get copied over if you copy something with move dialog! There is no such an option in the dialog! And Opt/Alt moving won’t create these! And even duplicating an artboard!!!
Same deal with Copy and Paste commands.
Infuriating.
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AdminEgor Chistyakov
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The parent report is
Dimensions get expanded when moved, with or without related objects
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47739104