COPY ONLY A PART OF BIG DRAWING

[poymaasin]

hi AUGI, im poy a newbie here,

Here is my question, I have a big floor plan with many layers and I only want to copy only part of the drawing in the middle part of the drawing to paste it in another model. How can i do this?


Thank you Very Much :)



Poy

[jaberwok]

Hi, welcome to AUGI.

This simplest answer is to use the Copyclip command which is Ctrl+C then paste (Ctrl+V) into the other drawing. When copying, select with a window picking right-to-left on the screen. That way, every object that lies entirely OR partly within the window will be selected.
It's possible that there may be too much information for this to work. Then you will just have to Delete and/or Trim the parts you don't want, Save to a temporary file and Insert that into the other drawing. You may be able to hide parts that you don't want by Freezing their layers.

[irneb]

There are several ways of doing this. The easiest would be as John's stated copyclip (Ctrl+C) & pasteclip (Ctrl+V). Otherwise (also as per John's) saveas to a temporary DWG file, erase that which you don't want to copy, and insert & explode (if needed) in the 2nd DWG.

Other than that you could insert the whole DWG into the other, explode & delete non-necessary parts. You may want to insert it at a specified position outside existing linework, so you can more easily select to delete - then move the left-overs to the correct position.

To make your selection simpler (as you're talking about layers as well), you could (again as John's indicated :mrgreen:) freeze / off those layers you don't want to copy (or visa versa depending on the method above). Easy way is to use the LAYFRZ or LAYOFF command & pick entities on the layer(s) you want frozen / off. Or if you know their names - freeze / off then by selecting multiple in the LAYER manager and clicking on one of the selected's relevant icon (snow-flake or light-bulb). Another way would be to use the LAYISO command ... you could see this as the "inverse" of the LAYOFF ... you select entities to have only their layers turned On ... all other layers would then be turned Off.

And then remember you can either select before issuing a command (if PICKFIRST=1) or thereafter. In either case you can select / deselect multiple times before completing the command. E.g. if you're selecting before, hold down the shift key to deselect. If you're selecting after, type R and space to change to Remove (or deselect) mode - the Shift key works here as well.

To see some nifty ways of selecting, type SELECT at the command prompt & press the F1 key.

Another thing you may try is using the 'FILTER (notice apostrophe prefix), or easier to understand for the newbie QSELECT. With these 2 you can filter the selection by entity type, colour, linetype, layer, etc. The Filter command is more comprehensive, but fails on newer types of entities (like dynamic blocks). While the Quick Select takes some practice before getting used to.

And (I think this is the last) you could INSERT as block (without exploding) or XATTACH as xref. Then freeze / off the layers not wanted. Then use XCLIP to show only the portion you wanted.

[RobertB]

... XATTACH as xref. Then freeze / off the layers not wanted. Then use XCLIP to show only the portion you wanted.This is the only way I would do it. This way any edits to the source floor plan will be reflected in the dependant partial view.

Mantra: Draw once, my young padawan.

[irneb]

This is the only way I would do it. This way any edits to the source floor plan will be reflected in the dependant partial view.

Mantra: Draw once, my young padawan.Depends on the situation I presume. If the OP want's to re-use a drawing as a base to start something else, the XReffing may not be the best idea. If however the copied portion needs to be updated each time the source drawing's changed, then I'd also say XRefing is the only solution :mrgreen:

[jaberwok]

This is the only way I would do it. This way any edits to the source floor plan will be reflected in the dependant partial view.

Mantra: Draw once, my young padawan.


Depends on the situation I presume. If the OP want's to re-use a drawing as a base to start something else, the XReffing may not be the best idea. If however the copied portion needs to be updated each time the source drawing's changed, then I'd also say XRefing is the only solution :mrgreen:

Yes, it depends on circumstances. ... but xref is best.