All sheet effects disappeared?????!!!!
Don Anderson Jr.
Mapmaker
Is there something I am missing. Sheet effects are on.
Every single sheet I added over the last three weeks just dissapeared.
I'm beyond angry.
I copy and pasted from one layer to three other sheets.
hit ok.
Refreshed the map and everything was gone. Even the four new sheet effects.
So diligent with saving and autosave, both are screwed.
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Weird thing.
In the last two days instances have made the program work unexpectedly.
Both times it was in realtion to using: CA177 Field ploughed.
It may be an amazing coincedence but if anyone messes around with this fill let me know.
One instance was when I used that fill on a multipoly then used the "Shaded Polygon angle by edge" Then it straight up deleted the entity. Tried it a few times,
Then when my sheets got wiped I applied transparency on multiple sheets with that exact fill,
Probably just a really unlikely possibility both problems involved that specific fill.
I'm not very clear on the exact process causing the problem, Don.
If you can get the problem to happen again and again by carrying out a list of specific actions, please report it to Tech Support.
The best thing I can suggest for the initial "losing everything" post here would be to reiterate one of the much-missed JimP's suggestions that he long followed, which was to "Save As" each time, not just a simple save or an Autosave, so each map gained, for example, a fresh numeral after each next save. That means you can always go back to "MyMap_021" when what would be MyMap_022 crashes-out on you, etc.
After the fact, I know, but maybe something for next time.
Did you by any chance hit the button that says "effects presets" ? perhaps you created a new one, or selected another one by mistake?
Nope.
That has a prompt to change it.
It's still on the one I used to create the map.
Yea I started to do what Wyvern said. Kind of how I play Elder Scrolls games lol. I think I had about 60 saved games for the Oblivion remaster. I maxed out the saves.
Hmmm maybe another suggestion for Campaign Cartographer 4. Sequenced auto saves.
This happened to me awhile back - fortunately, I had very similar map that I could copy effects from to fix it. Still not sure what I did to nuke them.
Unfortunately, using select all with the original fastcad ERASE command (not the cc3 ERA command) will get the special invisible cc3 entity that keeps drawing defaults and the records for all effects. There may be other pathways that can pick that entity, but I don't recall offhand.
The special features in cc3 like the drawing entity and the palette entity are protected on newer pathways but not the original fastcad commands. It's why you generally shouldn't try to start a new drawing by trying to delete everything in existing drawing but rather use the new drawing wizard.
So in essence you need to make a map. Create all the effects. Then save that map. Then each map you want with the same look starts with that base map you created?
That is how you should go about making a map template, yes.