Loss of 2D work on rebuilding from model

[Anonymous]

Hi, is there a way that one can prevent the loss of 2D work done for example on a unlinked elevation drawing when a change occurs on the model and one has to therefore rebuild from the model? I work for an interior design firm and we use a lot of fills/hatches to represent the different materials.
Many thanks.

[Anonymous]

Create a new section/elevation parallel to the the original section/elevation.
Unlink it and delete everything. Copy all 2D work from the original
section/elevation and paste into the new section/elevation with
"paste to original location". You can then copy the 2D work and
paste it back into the original rebuilt section/elevation.
Peter Devlin

[Richard Morrison]

I wonder if you've been modifying the lines and fills that get automatically created by the program. Any NEW 2D stuff you draw should stay upon rebuilding. Any automatic lines or fills that you've just modified in the view will evaporate. So always try to draw over what's there. Another approach to try is to keep the elevation live and marquee the area, copy this area off to the side, and then modify THAT.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your input guys. It's true, I have been modifying the lines and fills that get automatically created by the program. It is so much easier to do this since the fills follow the contours of other objects around them. I was thinking further about this and was wondering whether graphisoft could come up wiht a way to assign what these automatically created fill become prior to converting the drawing to 2D as opposed to just empty fills. A kind of cover fill assignment for wall????

[Andy Thomson]

On large projects we often copy-paste entire elevations (within the same viewpoint window) - over to the right 300'. That way we have a dumb elevation and a live one. The live one rebuilds.. the dumb one turns into window-legends, etc. Like what Peter says but maybe easier?

[Anonymous]

andyro wrote:
On large projects we often copy-paste entire elevations (within the same viewpoint window) - over to the right 300'. That way we have a dumb elevation and a live one. The live one rebuilds.. the dumb one turns into window-legends, etc. Like what Peter says but maybe easier?

Maybe easier but take more power from the computer. And less power takes more time, and time is money. Now I don't think ONE copy of a smaller section / elevation in original window will give you any problem, but it could be good to know that 10 windows is faster than 1 window with all information on it.