Copy whole building

[Anonymous]

I am a student using Archicad.

I have created a drawing with a photo and a model I created to make a photo-rendering.

The file is corrupted and I get an error message when I load ArchiCAD. This is worrying.

I can still access my model and wish to copy it to another drawing which is not corrupted by using copy and paste.--- So I am not planning on copying the whole drawing- as I will copy the corrupt part.

How can I copy it all at once with all layers all stories and all floors? To a brand new drawing.

Regards Kiri

[Anonymous]

Kiri,
Unlock All elements, View All, and use Thick Marquee to select ALL ELEMENTS ON ALL STORIES.
But first you have to find the corrupted element (use it's ID number from the error report) and try to solve the problem. Maybe some variable has a value "0".

[Anonymous]

Thank you

[Steve Jepson]

If you can still generate a 3D model, you might try selecting all from the 3D view. The idea is to use the 3D view kind of like a filter. It may help you to determine if the problem is with a 3D part or not.
Copy and paste all of the 3D parts into another instance of ArchiCAD.
Save and see if you still get the error message.