topic Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations in Modeling

Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:57:53 GMT

This might be a newbie question! Seems pretty basic and something that you can do in like all the other 3d programs? Maybe not possible in Archicad, but feel like I’ve gotta be missing something here, maybe a setting or something. Any ideas or insights greatly appreciated? When I press CMD+C in 3d view I just get loud error beeps.

Try to constantly copy and paste in 3d views, like all the time. Same with elevations., I’ve selected these two beams and just want to copy them, then drag them off to the side to keep iterating as part of the design process.

Saw another forum post about across instances of two open Archicad projects, hadn't tried that, but that seems rather basic features we should have too. But here I'm just stuck doing that in 3d in the same project.

Would also like to be able to click and drag holding OPTION key in Mac to copy things like that.

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

hmartell — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:21:04 GMT

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishes/Copy-and-Paste-in-3D/m-p/37659/highlight/true#M4227

Been an issue since the beginning apparently.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:26:27 GMT

19 years (more if you count discussion before I posted that wish) and counting... and yet we've seen no progress on this wish list item. 😢

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:24:30 GMT

Just to clairfy not across two windows or different open files, like in the same project? The link above that I also saw seems to be across multiple open projects.

Wild in the year 2024. So sorry for everyone that has been living two decades of their life like this, oh gosh.

My sales rep at the time told me it was a 3d design program but not sure how you can consider yourself a 3d program without copy and paste features, lol

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

MASz — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:01:15 GMT

Maybe give it another 19 years?

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Wed, 15 May 2024 03:22:48 GMT

With the new Wishlist voting open up for feedback, we should all rally together and vote on this one. If Archicad is actually a 3d modelling tool this should be included without any doubt. Thank you!

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

brianwo — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:11:13 GMT

The best I’ve found is a “Zero” paste. In many cases, the paste box will have a listening dimension for how far it’s offset from the copy source. If you hit 0 and enter, it will drop it at the original location. This is not always possible, like legend views for instance.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

RobPhill33 — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:36:21 GMT

You can control drag a copy of elements in the same 3D view. Not sure why it's not working for you.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:06:16 GMT

@RobPhill33 oh that's wild! I hadn't even tried that since shortcut keyboard copy and paste didn't work. But I did just try the CMD / CTRL drag on Mac and didn't work at all.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

Mahmoud Qenawi — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:42:51 GMT

Hi @ethanbodnar,

Why you need copy/paste if you have drag a copy or copies?

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 19 May 2024 21:21:43 GMT

Imagine trying to 'drag a copy' on a building with 10's of thousands of square meters / feet. Not easy to drag a copy from one side to the other... zoomed out, you cannot select or see where you're going... zoomed in, you cannot drag and zoom and pan at the same time easily at all. Or you could be copying to a story tens of stories away...etc

And, if you have two Archicads open... you cannot drag a copy into the other running Archicad. But, it is impossible to copy from one open Archicad and paste into the other either.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Mon, 20 May 2024 04:13:11 GMT

My sales rep told me when I got into Archicad that it was a full SketchUp replacement for 3d modeling, guess not.

Your points are super valid and there's totally creative ways to design software features that work for everyone.

This is a software / product designers role and dream, to solve this exact use case that you've presented for those designing 50,000 square foot projects and 100 story tall buildings, combined with my very basic use case of wanting to copy and paste a 10x10' slab in 3d.

You can copy and paste in some equally advanced 3d modeling software out there right now.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

hevi — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:23:50 GMT

Another example is elements that for which there are design options - since there isn't a function to relink a copy (why?!) we have to first copy the element and then relink - and since we cant copy and paste in 3D we need to drag a copy somewhere and then drag it back to the previous position.

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:52:32 GMT

Yep, that seems like a good example too!

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

RobPhill33 — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:40:43 GMT

I don't work on 100 story buildings, but the control copy/drag seems to work fine. Maybe it's an issue with Macs?

Re: Copy and Paste in 3D and Elevations

ethanbodnar — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:26:53 GMT

@RobPhill33 oh my goodness, so dreamy watching you do that with such ease!