topic Re: copy and paste to selected stories in Modeling

copy and paste to selected stories

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:20:29 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way we could select certain elements from a story, copy them and then paste to selected stories?

Thanks,

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:29:01 GMT

Hi, there is an edit element by stories option, in Edit>Move

But if this is too general for you, you can just use Ctrl + C, move to the story you want and paste. (Ctrl + Up or down arrow to move between stories)

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:44:26 GMT

Thanks for your response. Edit element by stories unfortunately takes ALL the elements for example all the walls, all the objects.

I needed a fast way to copy from 1 floor to 30 other stories for example.

Will use the copy and paste one by one.

Thanks again.

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:53:17 GMT

Another method that could work depending on what you want to copy, is make a group with those elements and then in a elevation or section view where you can grab at least one element, then using the multiply command (Ctrl + U)

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Bruce — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:06:45 GMT

If you're doing a building 30 stories high, you should probably use modules (kind of similar to Revit Groups).

With the multiply (curl+u mentioned in the last post) make sure you check the 'Set home story...' check box.

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:47:04 GMT

Thanks for the hotlink module option. We are working on solo versions. Do we have this option?

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Bruce — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:51:46 GMT

Yes, absolutely. There are a few considerations you need to think of first, in order to make your life easier in the long run. Plenty of training videos on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=archicad+modules

They're a bit older, but the principles haven't changed.

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Karl Griffith — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:58:59 GMT

Aya wrote:
Thanks for the hotlink module option. We are working on solo versions. Do we have this option?

Actually, ArchiCAD Solo version does not have the Hotlink Module feature. The main reason I decided to go to the full version in 21.

Re: copy and paste to selected stories

Bruce — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:15:59 GMT

My apologies: I misunderstood 'version' for 'file.' Never having used anything less than the full version, it didn't cross my mind.