topic Door materials not showing in Libraries & objects

Door materials not showing

Scott Bulmer — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:47:22 GMT

Greetings, I am stumped. In the attached image you can see that all the door materials appear as the same white opaque material however they are specified differently in the door settings dialog box, including transparent glass. This is true for many of the glazed doors. Is there a new setting or something I have missed in AC19? Thank you, Scott

Re: Door materials not showing

Barry Kelly — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 04:01:15 GMT

Maybe you do not have your objects set to use object surfaces?

Barry.

Re: Door materials not showing

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 04:05:21 GMT

Check renovation filter overrides. Is the door assigned the correct status?

Re: Door materials not showing

Scott Bulmer — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:38:45 GMT

Stuart - door is existing & renovation filter set to show, no overrides.
Barry - your screenshot is from AC18 windows. AC19 does not have that setting. The closet setting I can find has no effect. See how preview shows door all greyed out.
Windows behave correctly, doors not. I have also tried New & Reset All, no go. Doors used to work. Thank you for review and comments. Scott

UPDATE: Doors work correctly in a brand new file from brand new template. Something is wrong with the file.

Re: Door materials not showing

David Maudlin — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:51:15 GMT

Scott wrote:
Barry - your screenshot is from AC18 windows. AC19 does not have that setting. The closet setting I can find has no effect. See how preview shows door all greyed out.

That panel is hidden. Go to Work Environment > Tool Schemes > Tool Settings Dialog Boxes > Door Tool > Model and make it visible.

David

Re: Door materials not showing

Scott Bulmer — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:02:46 GMT

Barry, that's it! In all my years I have never had to force reveal that setting. Why it would go hidden is mind boggling. Thank you so much!!! Scott

Re: Door materials not showing

Erwin Edel — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:47:07 GMT

I just noticed that the 'model' panel was turned off for all my object/window/door/etc tools too. I think it was turned off by default in the ArchiCAD19 work environment. I allways recreate my work environment on new releases, rather than import old one, so that I have all the new functions/options on menus/toolbars/etc.

I knew about these 'layers' for the infobox, didn't know it existed for the tool schemes too.

Learning and learning all the time

Re: Door materials not showing

OBERMEYER — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:53:02 GMT

Working on our AC24 template, this thread is still very relevant four years on. Just burned through two hours testing all settings before I found David's solution. Thank you!

Re: Door materials not showing

Anonymous — Mon, 24 May 2021 03:01:21 GMT

I faced the same problem as I was trying to build a A24 template from a file migrated from an earlier version.

You can also go to Options>Work Environment>Info Box, select "Door Tool", and check that "Surface" is visible.
Then in your Door Selection Settings dialogue box, under Model, uncheck Override Surfaces.