topic Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake in Documentation

Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:33:53 GMT

Whilst cleaning up obsolete views etc, it appears that the Elevations in my View Map have been deleted by mistake.

This seems to be independent of undo as I noticed and couldn't rectify it.

The elevations are still on my layout but I'm not sure how to sort everything out/what implications this might have.

This is my first project in Archicad so I'm still getting up to speed on the organiser/navigator etc

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:06:51 GMT

Go into the project map right click on each elevation & save current view, they will then re-appear in the view map only at the bottom, you will need to drag them up to the folder where you keep them.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:35:34 GMT

Thanks, will do that tomorrow

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:49:35 GMT

You will then need to re-link the drawings on the layouts to those new views.
Or just delete them and place the new views on the layouts again.

They are only views of the elevations and the original elevations are still there in the Project Map.
So no real harm done - the hardest part is remembering the settings for the views when you re-create them.

Barry.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Bruce — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:31:17 GMT

A quicker way to create the views is to open the Organiser, then drag all the relevant elevations from the project map on the left, to the view map on the right, then change the settings of them all at once whilst still selected.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 06:47:40 GMT

Thanks everyone.

What's the best way to relink the elevations on my layout please

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 06:50:22 GMT

Select the drawing on the layout, right mouse click, link drawing to...

Barry.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:20:36 GMT

Sorry Barry, I meant vice versa.

They're on my layout but deleted elsewhere. I just wondered if there was a way of restoring the elevations that are on my layout

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:26:42 GMT

You have deleted the view, so the drawing on your layout is effectively fixed now - no longer linked to anything.
There is no way of re-establishing the view from the drawing on the layout.

You will have to re-create the view and then either re-link the drawing on the layout to that new view or delete the old drawing and place a new one from that view.

Barry.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:52:59 GMT

Barry wrote:
You have deleted the view, so the drawing on your layout is effectively fixed now - no longer linked to anything.
There is no way of re-establishing the view from the drawing on the layout.

You will have to re-create the view and then either re-link the drawing on the layout to that new view or delete the old drawing and place a new one from that view.

Barry.

Thanks for clarifying Barry.

If I relink back to the now recreated views, will they override the current appearance of the fixed views on the layout?

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:20:08 GMT

The old drawing (view) will be gone and it will now be a live link to the new view.
As you are basically re-creating the same old view the re-linked view should be the same as it was so you should need to re-crop the drawing (assuming you have the same 'view settings' for the zooming (bottom of view settings dialogue)).

It is the same as deleting the old drawing and placing a new one, it just saves you the effort of maybe re-cropping the drawing and maybe having to move it as well.

Barry.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:03:17 GMT

Thank once again Barry.

All sorted now (linking back to the recreated elevations), I just didn't want to go about it the wrong way.

It's a shame there isn't an undo command for a slip of the mouse etc.

Regarding the unlinked elevations on a sheet, is there ever a call for this in any archicad workflow? Perhaps for an issued drawing that needs to remain unaltered?

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:12:20 GMT

thompsonmp wrote:
Regarding the unlinked elevations on a sheet, is there ever a call for this in any archicad workflow? Perhaps for an issued drawing that needs to remain unaltered?

Yes but you wouldn't 'un-link' an elevation by deleting the view.
In the drawing settings you can change it from auto update to manual.
Then it will only update when you tell it to.

Barry.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 06:45:22 GMT

Thanks Barry

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:35:31 GMT

Next time to get more information just pm Barry next time or something, he's just too smart Good job Barry keep it up dude! Great moderation.

Re: Elevations in View Map deleted by mistake

Barry Kelly — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:52:49 GMT

Moyojic wrote:
Next time to get more information just pm Barry next time or something, he's just too smart Good job Barry keep it up dude! Great moderation.

Thanks for the compliment Moyojic.
But lets keep it public on the forum please so we all can learn.

Barry.