topic Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing in Modeling

Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:00:49 GMT

Hello! Can someone help me?
I'm not able to change the material of every elements of a railing in a single action.
Is it possible?
Thank you

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Rex Maximilian — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:06:51 GMT

Alessandro wrote:
Hello! Can someone help me?
I'm not able to change the material of every elements of a railing in a single action.
Is it possible?
Thank you

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Both the rail and stair tool, as far as I know, don't have the ability to globally assign a material or pen for 2D or 3D. It has become so time consuming for me that I don't use either of these tools unless I have no other choice. I'll just create a custom object. It's a shame that they took out a perfectly good feature that every other ArchiCAD tool has for no good reason.

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Lingwisyer — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:22:39 GMT

It doesn't take much to add a toggle for this function, so hopefully it will be there in a later update and / or AC23.

Ling.

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:21:52 GMT

I agree with you! Thank you!

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Erwin Edel — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:37:42 GMT

Some objects have parameters inaccesible from the object UI. By making a schedule and listing those parameters you can easily change them for multiple objects at once.

Perhaps as a similar workaround you can schedule the railing surfaces sorted by railing part and by using 'merge uniform items' can quickly change the surface for multiple elements at once.

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Rex Maximilian — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:28:04 GMT

Lingwisyer wrote:
It doesn't take much to add a toggle for this function, so hopefully it will be there in a later update and / or AC23.
Ling.

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The fact that these two tools have been around for two or three versions already, I'm not holding my breath. This is really the single-most reason I don't use them unless I have to.

Sometimes it's the little things that affect you most.

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Rex Maximilian — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:28:40 GMT

Erwin wrote:
Some objects have parameters inaccesible from the object UI. By making a schedule and listing those parameters you can easily change them for multiple objects at once.

Perhaps as a similar workaround you can schedule the railing surfaces sorted by railing part and by using 'merge uniform items' can quickly change the surface for multiple elements at once.

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Interesting solution for a workaround. I'll try this. Thanks!!!

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:53:48 GMT

Intersting. Thank you!

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Erwin Edel — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:43:43 GMT

Let us know if it works, I know it works easily with objects since the surfaces are a parameter and you can ussually change object parameters from schedule if you list them.

It will work a little different for railing tool, but maybe it works.

I think I used edit railing and then Find & Select to get all the similar parts and change them at once per railing. Not a real mass change, but quicker than each part one by one.

Re: Archicad 22 - Single material railing

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:33:37 GMT

I tried but without good results... No problem. Thanks at all.