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About Archicad's design tools, element connections, modeling concepts, etc.

Coping elements from stories.

Anonymous
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I found very useful the tool for coping elements from one story to another, but I wonder if can you copy only selected elements not all of any type. It is very annoying to copy paste, so if it would be possible to make this with that tool it would be great.
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
I am not sure I understand what tool you are talking about?

You can select whatever you want, copy and paste into another storey.
So if you only want 2 walls then you just select those 2 wall - you don't have to select all of them.

They don't even have to be the same type of element.
So you could have 2 walls, 3 slabs, and an object - select and copy them, change storey and paste.
They will all retain their original heights relative to the storey.

Barry.
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Anonymous
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Barry wrote:
I am not sure I understand what tool you are talking about?

You can select whatever you want, copy and paste into another storey.
So if you only want 2 walls then you just select those 2 wall - you don't have to select all of them.

They don't even have to be the same type of element.
So you could have 2 walls, 3 slabs, and an object - select and copy them, change storey and paste.
They will all retain their original heights relative to the storey.

Barry.
I mean using edit elements by stories, its very helpful, you can do it in the 3d window and control their effect. If you use copy and paste you have to switch to difference windows were are the difference leves.
Barry Kelly
Moderator
darwinland wrote:
I mean using edit elements by stories, its very helpful, you can do it in the 3d window and control their effect.
I can't say I have ever used this.
I guess it is great if you want to copy/paste all of one (or more) element types but as you say you can not choose specific elements only.

I just select what I want in plan, copy, move to another storey and paste.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
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Yes I believe this was introduced so that we could copy elements as we created stories. Not really a common workflow!

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