topic Re: Custom Door will not change surface material in Libraries & objects

Custom Door will not change surface material

4hotshoes — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:11:57 GMT

I have tried many different way to change the custom door I created to a different surface than what it was created in. How is this done?

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:15:30 GMT

4hotshoes wrote:
I have tried many different way to change the custom door I created to a different surface than what it was created in. How is this done?

This has cropped up a couple of times recently.

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61612

It can be scripted but I wouldn't bother.
The materials you use when you create the custom door is what you are stuck with.

I haven't tried using the surface painter tool.
Maybe that will help to swap the surfaces.

Barry.

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

Lingwisyer — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:18:09 GMT

Custom Door or Custom Door Leaf?

For a Custom Door, it would depend on if the material assigned to it is linked to a visible Parameter.

For a Leaf, you are unable to unless you duplicate the entire door hierarchy and add in your leaf's material Parameter into each sub-object. As Barry has mentioned, this is most likely not worthwhile.

Ling.

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

4hotshoes — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:39:01 GMT

It is a leaf. I wish I had known I could not change it. I did not save my work on it, because I did not know where I could save it. Is there a way to copy the leaf out as a slab, edit and save?

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

vistasp — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 07:28:24 GMT

You might want to save such parts to a special layer or storey so that they can be modified as and when needed. Just make sure they don't get scheduled!

For now, you can convert a copy of the door to a morph, remove the extraneous parts, change the surface as needed, and re-save it as a door leaf just as you did earlier.

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

Stress Co_ — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 18:44:29 GMT

When I create a custom door leaf,
I use a custom Surface material
(generically named, for example: "Front Door")

I can change the surface in "Surface Settings"
without having to to open/modify/re-save the the original
parts I used to create the leaf.

Re: Custom Door will not change surface material

Lingwisyer — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 01:17:07 GMT

Stress wrote:
When I create a custom door leaf,
I use a custom Surface material
(generically named, for example: "Front Door")

I can change the surface in "Surface Settings"
without having to to open/modify/re-save the the original
parts I used to create the leaf.

Now if only there was a way to copy settings between surfaces...