topic Refreshing Template in Project in Modeling

Refreshing Template in Project

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:11:35 GMT

I'm new to ArchiCAD, and I've noticed something that would become a problem later. When I change something in our template file (lets say add a new complex profile), that change will not show in a project that had that template as a basis. How can we reload the template to reflect the changes made. Our embedded library, composites, and profiles will only grow, so this will be a problem quick.

Re: Refreshing Template in Project

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:35:57 GMT

You can use Attribute Manager to update the oldest file

Re: Refreshing Template in Project

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:24:08 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
You can use Attribute Manager to update the oldest file

Let me know if I'm doing this wrong. I open up the project file, go into the attribute manager. Go into the all tab. On right side, open up TPL file, on the left side select all and erase (this will leave what is be used). Go back to right side, select all, and append. Click apply or ok. When I do this, however, I get a lot of warnings back to back (Cannot change name of attribute 'color' because another attribute with the same name already exists in the original attribute set......), this goes on and on until the list of colors is finished. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Refreshing Template in Project

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:30:28 GMT

You will need to use Overwrite from TPL to PLN no need to erase first.
If I am correct.

Re: Refreshing Template in Project

Barry Kelly — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:30:50 GMT

If you are trying to keep your plans consistent with your template then you will always want to 'Overwrite' attributes so they keep the same index number.
If you 'Append' then they will get a new number and Archicad will treat them as different attributes - even though they may have identical settings.

The index number is all important.

Barry.

Re: Refreshing Template in Project

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:10:36 GMT

Barry wrote:
If you are trying to keep your plans consistent with your template then you will always want to 'Overwrite' attributes so they keep the same index number.
If you 'Append' then they will get a new number and Archicad will treat them as different attributes - even though they may have identical settings.

The index number is all important.

Barry.

This. Thank you so much!