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> Cursor[1800 100 2.000000]

> And, the most important question: May there exist a trick to position
> the imported traces exactly? My traces from my router have arbitrary
> absolute start and end coordinates, so grid snap will not help. And
> manually positioning will never be exact. Maybe when I use a frame of
> outer traces with coordinates which are integer multiples of the grid?

The Cursor[] line is the "paste point".  Zero that out in the file and
you can Paste[] it relative to it's original origin.