Clones of Layouts

[vfrontiers]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could CLONE layouts into publisher so we would never forget to add that sheet to the PDF or Print set?

It never fails that I need to add a sheet to my Construction Docs after I've already created my PDF Publisher. If we could CLONE Layout Subsets, then my publisher would automatically track those added sheets.

[Thomas Holm]

TomWaltz wrote:
Open up the Organizer with the Layouts on the left and Publisher on the right. Select either the name of the layout book at the top or any subset on the left. You'll see a huge button to create shortcuts at the bottom of the left column. Click that and it creates a "clone" in the Publisher Set.

In the Organizer, you can of course just drag the layout in question into the publisher set if you like. Works just as well as pushing the button. And gives you control of where in the Publisher set it ends up.

[Link]

It really surprises me about the lack of knowledge of this small yet powerful button. There is a major difference between dragging a folder into the Publishing Set than there is using the 'Add Shortcut' button.

Dragging a folder, simply makes a copy of that folder *at that instance in time*. That is, if any layouts are later added to that folder later, they will not show up in the Publisher Set.

Adding a shortcut, is like making a clone of that folder, so that if any layouts are later added to that folder, they will show up in the Publisher Set.

The same can apply to the whole project! What would be really handy is if we could clone folders within layout book and/or clone entire publisher sets.

Cheers,
Link.

[Thomas Holm]

Link wrote:
It really surprises me about the lack of knowledge of this small yet powerful button. There is a major difference between dragging a folder into the Publishing Set than there is using the 'Add Shortcut' button...

Thanks for the clarification, Link!

Edited:
One reason for the lack of knowledge of this difference might be that it's not too clearly spelled out in the documents or Help files. From those, one might conclude that they work similarly. Like "Select the desired items from the View Map or Layout Map on the left side of the Organizer, then do one of the following"...
The one thing that shows the difference is the small arrow on shortcut folders.

[TomWaltz]

It's just proof that no matter how long you use a program, you always have more to learn (that one's a quote my new co-worker, Ransom, uses a lot and I love it!)

[Link]

Thomas wrote:
The one thing that shows the difference is the small arrow on shortcut folders.

Good point - I'll be sure to point that out in future trainings.

TomWaltz wrote:
It's just proof that no matter how long you use a program, you always have more to learn (that one's a quote my new co-worker, Ransom, uses a lot and I love it!)

Ransom Ratcliff? What a privilege. Please send him my regards. Hope all is going well there mate.

Cheers,
Link.

[TomWaltz]

Link wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
It's just proof that no matter how long you use a program, you always have more to learn (that one's a quote my new co-worker, Ransom, uses a lot and I love it!)

Ransom Ratcliff? What a privilege. Please send him my regards. Hope all is going well there mate.

Yep. Sometimes you get to work with the best and this is really one of those times for me.

[Chazz]

Link wrote:
Dragging a folder, simply makes a copy of that folder *at that instance in time*. That is, if any layouts are later added to that folder later, they will not show up in the Publisher Set.

Adding a shortcut, is like making a clone of that folder, so that if any layouts are later added to that folder, they will show up in the Publisher Set.

From the reference guide:

Another way to create a clone is to drag the folder using Ctrl+Shift
(Windows) or Opt+Cmd (MacOS) within the Navigator/Organizer.

This works for entire layout sets dragged into an existing Publisher set.

[vfrontiers]

Just in case... Is there anyway to CLONE views from the VIEW MAP to create individual layouts?

I have a file of Office Details and it produces a book of details for desk reference. Would be nice if everytime I added a new detail... it would not only create a new view (does this already), but that view would create a new layout...


Just thought I'd ask...

[Achille Pavlidis]

I'm unearthing this topic, because the "Create shortcut" is not what I'm looking for. Maybe there is another way to achieve what I'm after...

So, when I publish to DWG, Archicad creates a lot of Solid Hatches (Slabs, walls, objects etc) that are annoying when trying to work on DWG. So I want to publish my layouts with a different Model View where all the fills are overridden. I can clone the views to assign the desired Model View Options, but then I can only duplicate the layouts with the views they have. Ideally I would like to clone the layouts to assign a different view from the original.

I also looked at the DWG translation setup for the Fill method conversion and there are only 3 option none of which is what I need.

[Erwin Edel]

Even when overridden to have empty background, won't the fills still remain?

I don't think you can mass relink drawings internally. You may be able to mass relink to a different folder if you would publish to PMK files, maybe. But leaves you with same problem: relinking all the views to begin with.

I assume you need your layout information in the DWG, or you could just publish the views as DWG.