topic Re: Copying Elements Into New Project in Modeling

Copying Elements Into New Project

kittonian — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:41:19 GMT

In order to solve some of the "missing attribute" errors, I am wanting to simply copy all my elements to a new project. So, I created a new file and launched a new instance of ArchiCAD.

I was able to copy everything over EXCEPT that none of my doors and windows came along with my walls. Pretty major issue. Everything else is good but I need all my doors and windows.

Any thoughts?

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

Barry Kelly — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:21:40 GMT

Does the new file have the same library loaded as the old one?
Or maybe it has a different renovation filter active which is hiding the doors and windows.

Barry.

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

kittonian — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 01:33:04 GMT

Good thought but nope. It's identical. The doors/windows are simply from the standard AC library. Nothing special at all. No matter what we do, everything (including some other objects such as a cooktop, cabinets, etc.) all come over without issue, but no doors/windows are present on the walls.

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

Barry Kelly — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 01:45:33 GMT

The 3 culprits I would look at are ...
Renovation Filters
Model View Options.
Graphical Overrides.

Barry.

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

kittonian — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:38:16 GMT

Appreciated but none of those are an issue. There are no graphical overrides, I've gone through the renovation filters and there's nothing going on there, and this is our default template so the model view options are fine. If I place a new window or door in the wall that was copied over it shows up just fine.

The windows and doors are simply not copying over to the new AC instance.

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:15:05 GMT

Could you show us a screenshot of how those Doors and Windows look in the source file and how they look after copying in the target file. Do they at least cut a hole in those Walls or they are just not in the Walls at all (not even a rectangular Wallhole)?

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

kittonian — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:58:08 GMT

There is no hole, no nothing. Just a standard wall comes over.

We ended up recreating everything and now the project is complete.

Thanks everyone for your efforts.

Re: Copying Elements Into New Project

Barry Kelly — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:51:30 GMT

I just experienced what I think may (or may not) be the same problem when copying from 15 and pasting into 19 (but the different versions won't matter).

The walls came across but the doors didn't in plan.
They were there in 3D.

But what I noticed is the wall was "Projected with Overhead" plan display.

This is fine but my Floor Plan Cut Plane height was different in the 2 files - lower in the original (so all looked fine there) but higher in the second (paste) file.
The FPCP height was above the top of the wall so all I could see was the wall outline and no doors.

As soon as I changed it back to "Symbolic" the doors appeared.

Barry.