Copy 3d story and paste in 2d

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I found very useful to copy one story in 3d and paste into 2d in another level to make a comparition between levels.

Is there a way we can do it?

[Erwin Edel]

I don't think you can copy from 3D to floorplan, but you can group elements in 3D and than copy the group in floorplan and it will copy elements on other stories as well and paste in relation to that. So if you copy elements from story 2+3 and paste that to story 1, it will paste things to story 1+2. Be careful, however, as you can end up with extra stories this way if the one story above or below doesn't exist, archicad will create it.

[David Maudlin]

darwinland:

You can use the Marquee Tool, Flat polygon option to copy from the 3D Window. OpenGL will paste a Figure, Vectorial Engine will give various options to paste as Line & Fills.

David

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

darwinland wrote:
Sometimes I found very useful to copy one story in 3d and paste into 2d in another level to make a comparition between levels.

I may be misunderstanding 'levels' and this post may be completely off the mark, but just in case: the procedure for that is Trace-Reference. You don't need to copy or paste anything, you have a lot of control over what you see and how you see it, and a fancy slider thingie that makes comparisons easier. You can trace-reference to a viewpoint (in this case the story, in Navigator or Organizer) or a view (in this case a floor plan view with specific Model View Options and Graphic Override Combinations).

Now if for whatever reason you want to create/keep a 2D record of the current status of some story in the model, what you would do is copy-paste that story to a worksheet. That will make everything 2D, and you can still trace-reference to the worksheet. And if you want to keep a full model of some design variation for a story, you would select all and copypaste it to some say -4 Workshop story, excluded from the 3D window range.