diff --git a/src/app/cmd_result.rs b/src/app/cmd_result.rs
index 9250e7def..adaa386b8 100644
--- a/src/app/cmd_result.rs
+++ b/src/app/cmd_result.rs
@@ -616,8 +616,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                         tgt_wo[1] - src_wo[1],
                         tgt_wo[2] - src_wo[2],
                     );
-                    let delta =
-                        base_pt - self.clipboard_centroid.as_dvec3() + wo_corr;
+                    let delta = base_pt - self.clipboard_centroid + wo_corr;
                     let translate = crate::command::EntityTransform::Translate(delta);
                     self.push_undo_snapshot(i, "PASTECLIP");
                     let count = self.clipboard.len();
diff --git a/src/app/commands.rs b/src/app/commands.rs
index 02ece38f3..032a5e464 100644
--- a/src/app/commands.rs
+++ b/src/app/commands.rs
@@ -603,13 +603,15 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                     let src_wo = self.clipboard_world_offset;
                     let tgt_wo = [0.0_f64; 3];
                     let centroid = self.clipboard_centroid
-                        + glam::Vec3::new(
-                            (src_wo[0] - tgt_wo[0]) as f32,
-                            (src_wo[1] - tgt_wo[1]) as f32,
-                            (src_wo[2] - tgt_wo[2]) as f32,
+                        + glam::DVec3::new(
+                            src_wo[0] - tgt_wo[0],
+                            src_wo[1] - tgt_wo[1],
+                            src_wo[2] - tgt_wo[2],
                         );
                     use crate::modules::draw::clipboard::paste::PasteCommand;
-                    let cmd = PasteCommand::new(wires, centroid);
+                    // The ghost anchor is a display-only offset; the precise
+                    // paste delta is computed in f64 at commit time.
+                    let cmd = PasteCommand::new(wires, centroid.as_vec3());
                     self.command_line.push_info(&cmd.prompt());
                     self.tabs[i].active_cmd = Some(Box::new(cmd));
                 }
@@ -674,7 +676,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                             self.tabs[i].dirty = true;
                             let wires = self.tabs[i].scene.wires_for_entities(&self.clipboard);
                             use crate::modules::insert::insert_block::InsertBlockCommand;
-                            let cmd = InsertBlockCommand::new_for_block(name, wires, base);
+                            let cmd = InsertBlockCommand::new_for_block(name, wires, base.as_vec3());
                             self.command_line.push_info(&cmd.prompt());
                             self.tabs[i].active_cmd = Some(Box::new(cmd));
                         }
diff --git a/src/app/helpers.rs b/src/app/helpers.rs
index a4e0a2e89..46ca4ad22 100644
--- a/src/app/helpers.rs
+++ b/src/app/helpers.rs
@@ -254,25 +254,34 @@ pub(super) fn polar_constrain_near(
 // ── Clipboard / selection helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────
 
 /// Compute the centroid of a set of wire models (average of all points).
-pub(super) fn entities_centroid(wires: &[WireModel]) -> glam::Vec3 {
-    let mut sum = glam::Vec3::ZERO;
+pub(super) fn entities_centroid(wires: &[WireModel]) -> glam::DVec3 {
+    // Reconstruct each vertex's absolute f64 from the double-single high/low
+    // pair and accumulate in f64: summing the f32 `points` alone at UTM scale
+    // (~5.7e6) both quantizes each term ~0.5 m and loses low bits across the
+    // running total, drifting the paste base / block base metres off.
+    let mut sum = glam::DVec3::ZERO;
     let mut count = 0usize;
     for w in wires {
-        for p in &w.points {
-            let v = glam::Vec3::from(*p);
+        for (i, p) in w.points.iter().enumerate() {
             // Wire models carry NaN points as separators between disjoint
             // segments; summing them poisons the whole centroid into NaN,
             // which then makes every paste base point NaN. (#129)
-            if v.is_finite() {
-                sum += v;
-                count += 1;
+            if !p[0].is_finite() || !p[1].is_finite() || !p[2].is_finite() {
+                continue;
             }
+            let l = w.points_low.get(i).copied().unwrap_or([0.0; 3]);
+            sum += glam::DVec3::new(
+                p[0] as f64 + l[0] as f64,
+                p[1] as f64 + l[1] as f64,
+                p[2] as f64 + l[2] as f64,
+            );
+            count += 1;
         }
     }
     if count > 0 {
-        sum / count as f32
+        sum / count as f64
     } else {
-        glam::Vec3::ZERO
+        glam::DVec3::ZERO
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/app/mod.rs b/src/app/mod.rs
index 2269a1837..e6a3f7680 100644
--- a/src/app/mod.rs
+++ b/src/app/mod.rs
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ pub(super) struct OpenCADStudio {
     /// In-memory clipboard: cloned entities waiting to be pasted.
     clipboard: Vec<acadrust::EntityType>,
     /// Centroid of the clipboard entities (world XY plane).
-    clipboard_centroid: glam::Vec3,
+    clipboard_centroid: glam::DVec3,
     /// The source drawing's `world_offset` at copy time. The centroid above is
     /// measured in that drawing's offset-relative frame; pasting into a drawing
     /// with a different offset (e.g. a large-coordinate file → a fresh one)
@@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
             update_notice_version: None,
             update_notice_body: None,
             clipboard: Vec::new(),
-            clipboard_centroid: glam::Vec3::ZERO,
+            clipboard_centroid: glam::DVec3::ZERO,
             clipboard_world_offset: [0.0; 3],
             clipboard_deps: ClipboardDeps::default(),
             shift_down: false,
diff --git a/src/scene/mod.rs b/src/scene/mod.rs
index be582d3f9..6391d4f75 100644
--- a/src/scene/mod.rs
+++ b/src/scene/mod.rs
@@ -4204,7 +4204,7 @@ impl Scene {
         &mut self,
         entities: Vec<EntityType>,
         name: &str,
-        base: glam::Vec3,
+        base: glam::DVec3,
     ) -> Result<(), String> {
         let name = name.trim();
         if name.is_empty() {
@@ -4248,7 +4248,7 @@ impl Scene {
             .add_entity(EntityType::BlockEnd(block_end))
             .map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
 
-        let local = EntityTransform::Translate((-base).as_dvec3());
+        let local = EntityTransform::Translate(-base);
         for mut entity in entities {
             view::dispatch::apply_transform(&mut entity, &local);
             entity = crate::modules::draw::modify::explode::normalize_entity_for_block(entity);