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Best way to copy/edit a trip

txrivergal
over 8 years ago
Basecamp v. 4.6.2, to be exported to Nuvi 3490.

I have multiple trips (just because I like the trip tool better than the route tool) and would like to copy a given trip that has a bunch of waypoints to create a new trip that I can then invert and edit, leaving the original trip intact.

I have tried duplicate, copy/paste, I've copied and pasted to a different folder, each time I end up with both the original file and the copied filed changed. Some of these trips have a lot of marker waypoints for road turns in remote dirt roads where it is easy to go astray... and I'd prefer to not have to recreate it every time. What am I doing wrong?
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    If you duplicate a route you should be able to change the duplicate without changing the original. How are you 'duplicating' the route?
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Lists behave as if they contain something like a Short-cut or Link to objects rather than objects themselves. So copy/paste will copy and paste a link, not create a new object which is what you require.

    Duplicate is the correct command to make a new object based on an existing object. There will be an option to create new waypoints or use the existing ones. Waypoints (created with the Waypoint tool) or Via points created by clicking on the map while creating a route are treated the same. By that I mean the name of a Waypoint or Via point must be unique (you can’t give a Waypoint the same name of an existing Via point or vice versa).

    A duplicated route/trip created with duplicating the Waypoints/Via points will create new Waypoints and Via points and therefore will not change the original route when the Waypoints or Via points are changed in the duplicate route/trip.

    A lot of times duplicating all users points in a route is undesirable. The proper way to change a duplicate route created without duplicating the Waypoints is to add new Waypoints or Via Points to make the changes (example moving from one direction of a divided road to the other) and then remove the ones not needed.