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modifying dimension,label and text properties at several IE'S at once

yyeellddaa — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:54:06 GMT

Hello everyone,

if you know Autocad DIMSTYLE or TEXTSTYLE or LEADERSTYLE. they are like FAVORITES but they are always applicaple and bounded to the item if it is chosen.

so if you change anything in one of the styles it will applied to all items that had been created in that style. im looking for something like that in Archicad.

i want to be able to apply a change to multiple IE's and modify their properties at once. for example we decided to change the height of dimension texts to be 2mm instead of 2.5mm in 1/50 scaled IE's. and i know which IE's are 1/50 scale from the beginnig. so i can create 2 favorites 1 for 1/20 scale and other for 1/50 scale and use them while giving dimensions to IE's. but how can i apply a change to them?

I hope i made it clear what i want.

Thank you,

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: modifying dimension,label and text properties at several IE'S at once

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:36:49 GMT

You can edit your favourites so all future dimensions you place will be correct.

But favourites are not like styles and will not affect already placed dimensions.

Archicad does not have dimension or text styles.

Unfortunately, if text or dimensions have already been placed, you must select them and then change their properties.

You can re-apply the favourite to the selected text/dimension, rather than changing the settings manually.

When the wishes forum is back up and running and you can create a new wish there, please do so.

Barry.

Re: modifying dimension,label and text properties at several IE'S at once

yyeellddaa — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:40:46 GMT

Thanks Barry, re-apply a renewed favorite is good enough for me!

i do have some wishes, thank you for reminding me i will create new wishes there