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Performs a partial restore of plant mode objects from a backup, maintaining the identity, name, location, and relationships of the copied objects. You can select and copy objects from a backup model and paste them into the active model. The command is located on the Edit menu.

SHARED Tip It is often helpful when using this command to verify which session is active. You can view the name of the current session, task, model, and active filter on the title bar of the application and on the Windows task bar.

Partial Restore

To use Paste and Restore for a partial restore, your project administrator must back up the current model in the Project Management task. When you need to restore objects from a backup of the model data, the project administrator makes the backup data available as an additional model in the Project Management tree using the Restore model for selective recovery of model objects option in the Restore Wizard. For more information, see Restore a Backup Model for Selective Recovery in an Active Model in the Project Management User's Guide.

Paste and Restore does not support selective recovery of marine and material handling model objects.

The process for restoring selected objects from a backup is a simple copy-and-paste from one model to another. The behavior is as follows:

Property Values

All property values from the backup are restored to the object with the following exceptions: Modified Date and Modified By, both of which reflect the current values when you use Paste and Restore.

Permission Groups

To use Paste and Restore, you must have write access to the permission group for both the active and the backup versions.

Paste and Restore uses the active permission group if the original permission group of the object is not in the target model. The original permission group may have been deleted from the target model or may never have been in the target model. This situation can arise when you are importing objects from other models to reference.

Status

If an object in the backup version has an Approved status, the Paste and Restore command sets the status back to Working in the active model. If any object selected for Paste and Restore in the active model has an Approved status, you cannot use the Paste and Restore command.

Restoring Copied Objects

When attempting to restore copied objects, the following error may occur: The copied object(s) cannot be restored. Paste and Restore is unable to restore objects in the select set that have been copied into the current model. After you click OK, the command cancels. If only one object was in the select set when the error occurred, the object cannot be restored. If more than one object was in the select set, you have the following options:

  • You can copy a smaller set of objects and try the command again

  • You can restore the whole model from backup and re-model the work done since the backup.

  • Objects that cannot be restored have to be remodeled. In some cases, this error may be related to connections between objects (like structural members), where objects have been moved or connections have changed since the backup.

Restoring Drawing Volumes

When a drawing volume is associated to a drawing document (that is, volume drawings or drawings associated with spatial drawing components), copying the drawing volume results in copying the drawing sheet objects as well. When you paste the drawing volume, you specify the Space folder for the drawing volume. All other paste options are derived from the previous parent object.

Design Basis

When you run Paste and Restore, the software sets the correlation relationship to the state from the backup. If the object was not correlated, the relationship is removed.

  • If problems occur when using Paste and Restore, refer to the Troubleshooting Reference Guide accessed with Help > Printable Guides for additional information.

  • When using Paste and Restore, the Selection column of the Paste dialog box displays the original system associated with the object. You can change the association by selecting a different system in the Workspace Explorer. If the original system associated with the object has been deleted from the active model, then the Selection column of the Paste dialog box is blank. You can create a new association by selecting a system in the Workspace Explorer.