4hotshoez Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I have several versions of a plan and I would like all the view to match between versions after I have set the cameras up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kMoquin Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 You cannot copy cameras. When i need cameras to match from plan to plan I draw a line that follows the camera, paste it into the plan I like the camera duplicated in, and create a new camera view that follows the pasted line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 No. As Kevin said, you may not copy cameras. You CAN however try this... 1. Do a "Save As" of your plan (giving it a new name of course). 2. Lock the camera layer(s) (and make sure the rest are all unlocked) 3. Marquis select everything and hit delete. 4. Clean up anything else that may have failed to delete. 5. Open your alternate plan (the one without cameras), select all, and cut 6. Go back to your plan with only cameras and "paste hold position" 7. Save As the new plan with cameras using the desired name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 No. As Kevin said, you may not copy cameras. You CAN however try this... 1. Do a "Save As" of your plan (giving it a new name of course). 2. Lock ALL the layers in your plan except the camera layer(s) 3. Marquis select everything and hit delete. 4. Clean up anything else that may have failed to delete. 5. Open your alternate plan (the one without cameras), select all, and cut 6. Go back to your plan with only cameras and "paste hold position" 7. Save As the new plan with cameras using the desired name Or you could take another camera shot..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Oops...I made a mistake in my first post. I said to lock ALL the layers except the camera layer(s). What I should have said was UNLOCK ALL layers except the camera layer(s), or lock ONLY the camera layer(s). I edited my first post to correct it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Or you could take another camera shot..... True, but if you want them to be positioned EXACTLY the same and/or have tons of them set up, that can be extremely time consuming. You should be one to talk anyway....Mister SAVE AS :-) You know, I think I might start calling you D. SAM Hall...what in D. SAM Hall is going on here!!? Yep...I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 There ARE a tonne of cameras in his plan , reshooting would be a major Pita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 ...... 6. Go back to your plan with only cameras and "paste hold position" ...... I hate to be the contrarian.... ( I really don't),........ but the problem with this is if any of the floors and ceilings of the copied plan are NOT DEFAULT heights, it ain't gunna work...... Michael...... note the capitalization...... I am am still thinking of that sand thingy......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I hate to be the contrarian.... ( I really don't),........ but the problem with this is if any of the floors and ceilings of the copied plan are NOT DEFAULT heights, it ain't gunna work...... Michael...... note the capitalization...... I am am still thinking of that sand thingy......... Oh well...I tried. You still owe me some sand or a chili dog though. This wasn't part of our bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I hate to be the contrarian.... ( I really don't),........ but the problem with this is if any of the floors and ceilings of the copied plan are NOT DEFAULT heights, it ain't gunna work...... Michael...... note the capitalization...... I am am still thinking of that sand thingy......... Now that I think about it a little more, I think it might be easier to change ceiling heights (where necessary) than it would be to replace all the cameras...maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I think the key here is...if possible, set up all your cameras BEFORE making alternate plans and then make SAVE AS copies of those plans with cameras and all before making your changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I just keep a ton in my template plan so they are already there when I start a new plan and they are already sent to the layout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 set up all your cameras BEFORE making alternate plans and then make SAVE AS copies of those plans with cameras and all before making your changes Michael: too many times the client asks for an alternative afterwards or the designer thinks of a few more things to try Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 set up all your cameras BEFORE making alternate plans and then make SAVE AS copies of those plans with cameras and all before making your changes Michael: too many times the client asks for an alternative afterwards or the designer thinks of a few more things to try Lew I understand the problems. Just stressing the ideal time to do things if you want to "copy" cameras. On the same note, anyone who saves all their cameras wouldn't have a problem doing what I said if people wanted to see changes late in the game. The problems would arise mostly when making changes in the middle of the process...not at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4hotshoez Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 The problem was that I set up cameras on a small plan, but I forgot to save the cameras, then did a SAVE AS to make changes to the alternate design. The cameras came with the saveas, but they did not stay in the first version of the design. I realize my mistake so I was hoping there was a way to copy the cameras back to the first plan. I do not understand that if the cameras are objects, why can't they be copy and pasted from plan to plan? Anyway I was able to get by on this smaller project, but next time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 There should definitely be a way to copy cameras. I'll use this opportunity to stump for one of my posts in the suggestion forum... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2635-duplicate-tabs/ ...that would create a duplicate tab that copies the camera view, with an option to create a new camera at the same time. This is only within the same plan, so it doesn't solve copying cameras between plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I hate to be the contrarian.... ( I really don't),........ but the problem with this is if any of the floors and ceilings of the copied plan are NOT DEFAULT heights, it ain't gunna work...... Michael...... note the capitalization...... I am am still thinking of that sand thingy......... I was reading another thread and realized that my sequence listed above actually should work with one minor tweak.... 1. Do a "Save As" of your plan (giving it a new name of course). 2. Lock the camera layer(s) (and make sure the rest are all unlocked) 3. Marquis select everything and hit delete. 4. Clean up anything else that may have failed to delete. 5. Open your alternate plan (the one without cameras), make sure everything is unlocked, and using "Edit Area (All Floors)" marquis select all, and cut 6. Go back to your plan with only cameras and "paste hold position" 7. Save As the new plan with cameras using the desired name That seems to work for me. What do you think Scott? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 It should work if all the ceilings and floors are default heights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I haven't used it on any extremely complex plans, but I tested with a quick and simple plan, and using "edit area", the non-default ceiling heights seem to transfer to the new plan just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I haven't used it on any extremely complex plans, but I tested with a quick and simple plan, and using "edit area", the non-default ceiling heights seem to transfer to the new plan just fine. Well that is interesting. I thought I had tried copying a lan without default heights and it blew up. I must try it tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I just tried it again with an extremely complex plan and it seemed to work just fine (although I didn't explore the plan in great detail). The key is to use "Edit Area" and not just standard select. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Curious, can I raise the entire model up 27" via transform replicate so that now the floor Dbx shows 27" higher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Can you copy a terrain from one plan to another? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Curious, can I raise the entire model up 27" via transform replicate so that now the floor Dbx shows 27" higher? I don't believe so. I think you need to use the floor settings to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Can you copy a terrain from one plan to another? You can't copy a terrain perimeter at all (even within the same plan) - it just pastes as a polyline. BUT what you can do is save the terrain perimeter to the library and then place it in another plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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