Group, Ungroup, Lock and Unlock
mike robel
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In what was clearly a misguided attempt to rotate my entire map in CC3, I used Group and drag selected the all the sheets and then "did it", followed by Locking it. Uncharacteristically, I then saved the file rather than creating a version. Rotating failed (for unknown reasons) and I then tried to Unlock and Ungroup the sheets.
Since grouping and unlocking prohibits appears to make individual changes impossible, I will likely have to redo the entire map unless the smart folk here can point me in the right direction.
Even worse, I found rotating the map was not required in the first place. I failed to tell the program to use the scale factor rather than fit the image to the page when printing. Grr.
I can attach the FCW if necessary, but I am at the car dealer waiting on my car with my traveling computer which does not contain CC3.
Thanks!
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What was the problem with ungrouping the entities? Once you ungroup everything, it should be editable just fine. Same if you unlock groups, then CC3+ will behave as if the entities aren't grouped at all, allowing normal editing.
Groups should not be applied across multiple sheets though, since a group can only be on a single sheet, this will pull all entities onto the sheet you create the group on.
Well. I grouped the sheets and it does nothing when I try to select a sheet. When I do ungroup, then try to hide everything but a single sheet, the whole drawing disappears which makes sense if one is not supposed to group sheets. :(
Here's the FCW, just in case I am doing things wrong.
The problem is that everything is on the TEXT sheet now due to the grouping, so you'll need to put things back on their appropriate sheets.
Aha. I think it might be easier to just redraw the map. It's pretty small as things go for me.
Because that never occurred to me and I probably only use 30% of the program's capability. :)
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Right there with ya, brother.
Cal
Yes. I can identify with that as well. The thing about CC3 is that there are so many different ways of doing similar things that its relatively easy to forget things too.