# Transferring \*all\* plotted elements (and their links to observables) between Axis

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/transferring-all-plotted-elements-and-their-links-to-observables-between-axis/79492>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [April 14, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/transferring-all-plotted-elements-and-their-links-to-observables-between-axis/79492 "2022-04-14T14:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/transferring-all-plotted-elements-and-their-links-to-observables-between-axis/79492/1 "2022-04-14T14:19:59Z")

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I admit, I’m not particularly optimistic whether this is possible, but here goes.

I have a `fig, ax`, which is an `Axis/Axis3` plotted on a `Figure`. On this axis many things are plotted, and many of the plotted things are observables linked to whatever animation pipeline. Now, from a different figure I have `fig2, ax2`. Is it possible to transfer _everything_ in `ax` to `ax2`, using only `fig, ax, fig2, ax2` as arguments, so that whenever I trigger whatever animation update pipeline, `ax2` gets updated?

(Yes, I understand that I could “just plot directly to ax2”, but given my setup, it would save me a large amout of work to be able to make the transfer. additionally, if you use packages that provide animation infastructure such as InteractiveDynamics.jl, then you’d have to change their source to achieve that)

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/transferring-all-plotted-elements-and-their-links-to-observables-between-axis/79492/2 "2022-04-14T14:25:21Z")

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As Axis3 and Axis are just wrappers of `Scene` with regards to their plots, the question is if plots can be transferred from Scene to Scene. It probably doesn’t work correctly right now, but it should be possible to move them. This issue is related to another one where plot objects can’t be created without a Scene. Maybe @sdanisch can give insight to what must happen for plots to be transplantable.

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/transferring-all-plotted-elements-and-their-links-to-observables-between-axis/79492/3 "2022-04-14T14:26:02Z")

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thanks. i really liked the word “transplantable”. I’ll try to use it whenever I can from now on!!!