THBlack Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Using CA 12. I'm a new-bee. Made a three-story building with doors, windows, stairs. Have some stone slabs inside for 'furniture.' Would like to copy the entire shebang and past the copy somewhere else in the plan. Placement needs to be done with precision to fit exactly where it needs to go. Can mark out the area with lines. Can this be done. What's the best and easiest way? Will I be able to tweak the parts once it's set down? Thanxabunch. Tzvi Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Edit > Edit Area > Edit Area (All Floors) should do it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, Chopsaw said: Edit > Edit Area > Edit Area (All Floors) should do it for you. You did say copy, so... what Chop said plus Copy and Point To Point Move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericepv Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 If you don't need to do any further editing on the house, you can convert it to a symbol (from a 3D view - Tools/Symbol/Convert to Symbol) and then place it in your plan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THBlack Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 Thanks to all of you. CA is such a beautiful product. So much stuff in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendyG Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Hi! Not familiar at all with CA just getting started . But once I click on edit all floors then what?? How do I copy my building next to the existing one? I have Home Designer Pro 2021. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Wendy: PRO users can benefit from following the Chieftalk forum just understand that Premier has features that don't apply to PRO if you ask questions on Hometalk be sure to mention that you have PRO so someone trying to help doesn't waste time if the solution won't work with PRO PRO has many of the manual tools that Premier does and can use some symbols created by Premier users Lew 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Awww, I'm so sad another down vote for trying to help someone I think I'm gonna cry so childish of them to hurt me so Lew 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheifTexan Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 On 7/28/2021 at 10:31 PM, glennw said: You did say copy, so... what Chop said plus Copy and Point To Point Move Glenn, This seems to not work now, and I found this thread, so lighting it back up. I tried Edit -> Edit Area -> Edit Area (All Floors) Verified that was checked Select the entire building (from Floor 1) Drag to move it to a different place. Drop. Floor 2 is still in the same place. I tried the same to select, copy, paste on another plan. Still it ONLY seems to copy the floor which the select and copy is done from, in this case Floor 1. Chief x14, Build 24.2.2.1 on macOS Intel I am totally positive that this worked just a few weeks ago before the last update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Seems to be working fine for me. Even copy/reflect seems to work fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 It's working Ok here. I am not sure what could be happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THBlack Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 Try this if a symbol works for you: Get a Full Camera on the building. Tweak (Check / Uncheck) the items on the Active Layer Display until whatever you you want is in that Layer Set view. Click Menu / Edit / Select All Click Menu / Tools / Symbol / Convert to Symbol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THBlack Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 Have a project that uses multiple buildings. Wasn't working well for me, so I started making buildings on separate plans and then inserting them back into the master plan as symbols. Wasn't very happy about doing this but it worked. Reason wasn't happy was because when I made walls for new buildings on the master plan, sometimes the walls broke by themselves. Would make them longer and always broke at the same place. Drove me nuts. Thought that the plan was corrupted or there was a bug in CA. Then . . . Turned on Invisible Walls in the Active Layer View and saw that I had a BUNCH of ROOM DIVIDERS all over the place. Found that walls broke whenever I'd extend a wall past a room divider. Have no idea where these room dividers came from. Is this some 'feature' in CA? - I'm still using V12. Have SA but am hesitant to upgrade because my computer is not a powerhouse and don't know what higher versions would do to my project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 There is always more than one way to solve a problem. If I was designing something like a small subdivision, I would probably keep each house in a separate plan and then build symbols out of them for the main model. I would also make sure each symbol had the fewest surfaces I could get to only show the details I needed. If I was designing something like a duplex or quad, I would probably keep everything all in one plan. If I was designing something like an assisted living facility with multiple units in multiple buildings, I might use both methods. Quote Have no idea where these room dividers came from. Is this some 'feature' in CA? Maybe. The program will automatically create room divider walls to connect "island" rooms. If you do a search for "island room", you will find more information. Or, you can post your plan (or at least a picture of it) and you might get a better guess. Quote I'm still using V12. Have SA but am hesitant to upgrade because my computer is not a powerhouse and don't know what higher versions would do to my project. If you still have SSA, you could just install X14 and try it. If you have problems, then you don't have to actually use it. Even better, if you find problems you could always report them to tech support and maybe they could even fix them in an update. Just make sure you keep a backup of the original plans because once you save a plan in a newer version you won't be able to open it back up in X12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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