EA cannot copy state-transitions?

[johnm9]

I'm trying to create a new state machine and all its substates and transitions based on an old state machine already drawn in its state diagram.

I have highlighted the old state machine and all its internal states can click copy. When I paste the old state machine in the new diagram as a "new" model, it simply copy the state machine and all its internal states, the linkage between the interal states are lost...

Is that a bug? Any workaround for me to get over it?

[Frank Horn]

Workaround: export the package containing the state machine to xmi and import it to another package with the strip guids option.

[johnm9]

Thanks Horns, its helpful.
But will "copy and paste by model" be added as a native function to the EA? Actually, I don't quite understand why there seems many UML tools try to hide those transitions and connectors from the project browser and provide very little support in their copy and paste.

I used to be a Rhapsody user in my prior company. Their tools support it very well. So, is this very difficult to be handled indeed?