topic Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs in Documentation

Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

DonDon — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:11:29 GMT

Hi All

I am relearning Archicad after a long hiatus. It's been going very well and the answers I've needed on this forum and on YouTube have been great. However....

I have a stair and I can not change its renovation status from existing to demolition. What am I doing wrong?

I've created a new stairs on both with both demolition and proposed to test this, but then can't change those either. I'm working in Archicad 22 on a Mac

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Barry Kelly — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:25:11 GMT

Is the option not available to you?

Barry.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

DonDon — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:28:08 GMT

Hi Barry

No, the options are greyed out

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Barry Kelly — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:44:19 GMT

I very rarely use renovation filters.

What would cause it to be greyed out I wonder?

Is this a teamwork file or a stand alone PLN?

Barry

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

felixsaw — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:33:34 GMT

Bumping this up - I'm facing the same issue with some doors.

The renovation status bar in the settings were all greyed out too..

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Barry Kelly — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:48:00 GMT

As I asked the original poster - Is this a teamwork file or a stand alone PLN?

As a stand-alone PLN I can't think of anything that locks the renovation status.

I don't use teamwork so I can't check if it is a permission thing.

Can you access the Renovation Filter Options dialogue OK and make changes there?

Barry.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

felixsaw — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:53:12 GMT

Hi Barry,

Thanks for your reply.

The file is on teamwork - but I have reserved the element so it shouldn't be a permission thing. I have been using renovation status and it has been working - just some elements from time to time that I couldn't change or edit the status..

The Reno filter option dialogue also showed greyed too...

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Lingwisyer — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:55:31 GMT

Is changing it via the Renovation Palette disabled too?

Would appear that changing a single element within an existing stair to new does not change the overall renovation status.... In 22 anyway.

Ling.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

felixsaw — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:01:37 GMT

Hi Ling,

Yeah both palette and settings are greyed out.

I can reserve, delete and create another door on the same wall but all fo them seemed to be greyed out..

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Lingwisyer — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:43:42 GMT

What's the Renovation Status of the wall?

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

Luiz Braga — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:43:38 GMT

Hi Felix,

I had this issue many times with a variety of different elements. Just solve the issue right now with a set of columns that wouldnt change its status. All I did was to change its distance to project zero. As soon as I did that, the Renovation status became available so I could change it. See if it works for you.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

henrysaxby — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:07:11 GMT

Hello,

I'm not sure if this would work with relation to stairs, but I had a similar problem with doors once. Essentially, as the door was placed on a wall marked as 'New Construction,' I couldn't change the door to anything other than 'New Construction,' as it wouldn't be able to have existed in a wall that wasn't there prior.

Could it be that the stairs are linked to a floor (or both floors) that is marked specifically as 'New Construction' or 'To Be Demolished' and therefore turning off your ability to alter the renovation filter status of that item?

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

zoe-pettit — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:57:01 GMT

Hi Felix,

Were you ever able to resolve this? I am running into the same issue with some roof rafters that were modeled as "new" when they should be "demo". The options to change renovation status are greyed out, and I cannot figure out why.

Even when I try to model new rafters, in a window where the construction status is set to "demo" or "existing" I am unable to model them in as existing or demo.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

DanVk — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:21:38 GMT

I had a similar problem today but with Polyline/Line and Library Objects. AC 27 Build4060. Not a teamwork file.

No matter what they didn't work, I was able to use them, but they didn't appear on Project/View map. I checked the classification options and both Renovation Status & Show on Renovation Filter were in grey and a day before they were okay.

For me the solution was :

Window > Palettes > Renovation Palette > Unpin whichever filter is active.

I don't have any idea what was the reason for this, but what I did could be the solution for your issue too.

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

aarkell — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:52:02 GMT

Any chance the stair object was accidentally locked? If you have the object selected and go to Edit>Locking>Unlock does that help? We've had a couple users accidentally lock things before, think a shortcut may have been accidentally pressed. If that's not the case, hopefully one of the other comments help!

Re: Unable to change Renovation Status of Stairs

annkav — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:22:46 GMT

Hi. I am facing the same issue with patches - there is no option to change renovation status. However i can send them to desired reno combinations. Are patches not available as renovation status elements?