topic Re: Associateive dimensions for Zones? in Documentation

Associateive dimensions for Zones?

Gerald D Lock — Mon, 22 May 2023 21:55:46 GMT

One of those 'disappointingly confounding facts of (ArchiCAD) life' - it has never been possible to get associative dimensions for zones.
Version 20 has still not delivered this functionality, and I'm still left wondering (with several thousand other users I'm sure) "but why?"

Can anyone in the developer inner circle please explain?

Re: Associateive dimensions for Zones?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:21:08 GMT

Gerald,
Why would you need to dimension a zone and not it's bounding structure?

Scott

Re: Associateive dimensions for Zones?

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:50:33 GMT

If I was doing conceptual work or space planning, I wouldn't want to start drawing walls to have something to dimension.

Re: Associateive dimensions for Zones?

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:26:03 GMT

Is it because of the same problem you get with the Cadimage door and window schedules - when the schedule is first created you get a set of dimensions. You can edit the dimensions or add more, but when you update the schedule the old objects are deleted and replaced with new objects, and therefore new dimensions. Any modifications to the dimensions are lost.

Does the same apply when updating zones? The old zone elements would be deleted and replaced with new ones?