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Importing a drawing
Can you export and subsequently import a drawing into another SH3D drawing? I created a drawings of two rooms in two separate drawings and then found that it would be helpful to include both of those rooms in one composite drawing.
Select All, copy, paste doesn't work as it doesn't go to the clipboard. Neither does Ctrl C/Ctrl V.
I should have designed both (or all) rooms in one drawing, but I didn't think about the possibility of that need until AFTER I had done the drawings.
I really don't want to have to recreate everything again if I don't have to.
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Re: Importing a drawing
Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V works for me copying selections between two open files if that is what you mean by two separate drawings. I'm on Linux, SH3D 7.2. What are you running?
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Re: Importing a drawing
Be sure to open the second file with File > Open or File > Open recent menu items, otherwise it may not work under Windows.
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Re: Importing a drawing
Actually, it does work now. I am running Windows 11. I had had a problem when I had two drawings open and wanted to move one to the other screen. (So I could copy/paste more easily) and with the 3D drawings open on another screen, I guess that created problems and the program hung and I had to restart it with Task Manager. That happened twice.
I'm thinking that in the process of doing that, the Windows cut/past buffer must have gotten messed up. AS I thought about it later, it didn't seem reasonable that I couldn't copy/paste so I came back (after I had posted this thread) and did a restart of the computer and, voila .... now it does work.
So ..... probably the issue is: don't try to move a drawing to a second screen if you have the 3D drawing open on the second screen as it causes unpredictable results which a simple restart of SH3D doesn't fix!
