Cutting a Portion of an Existing Map and Pasting it to a New Map

Corradus

Hey guys:

So, I have a map I've made, and I want to concentrate on a single part of it and give it it's own map. Is there a way to cut a section of an existing map out and 'port it over to a new map document?

Thanks guys.

Monsen

Yes.
The basics of it is that you use clipboard copy to copy the relevant entities to the new map. Then use Split, Break and Trim to remove the parts that end up outside the new map border. Path to Ploy can then be used to turn the now broken entity back into a polygon (Which will also restore it's fill). You can also use the trace functionally of the drawing tools to simply create a new polygon that is a duplicate of the relevant parts of the old one. (See the CC3 manual for some details about tracing with a drawing tool)
Also, Fractalize helps you to generate a more detailed edge on the existing entities, especially the coastlines.

Mateus090985

I never made fractalise function to coasts. To rivers it function normaly, but when I try to do it on costs I have no luck...

JimP

Make sure the layer the coast is on isn't frozen as I've been able to fractalize continents and coasts.

Mateus090985

I will check that. It is a pain to do it manually... It take me hours to do a continnet cost in the level of detail that I like with out this tool. I will give a try. Thanks.

Mateus090985

Only TEMPLATE and HEX/SQUARE GRID are frozen.