topic Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only? in Documentation

Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Wayne Blythe — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:27:17 GMT

For the purposes of a project, we need to indicate that the casing on the windows are different, can this be done in a GO. At the moment I have had to overlay 2 walls and in the proposed wall change the casing colour (indicated in blue)

Is this possible and is this also possible to do in plan also?

Many thanks.

Wayne

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon 15.6.1 (24G90)

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:10:58 GMT

I am not quite sure what you are trying to do with the casings.

Are you wanting the inside and outside casing different?

Graphic Overrides act on the entire element, so anything you change will affect the entire window or wall.

So probably not the solution you are looking for.

Barry.

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Wayne Blythe — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:20:02 GMT

Hi Barry - yes, I want to be able to change just the casing but as i have already experienced and like you confirmed, the GO will override the whole element only.

Does anyone have any other ideas of a workaround?

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Lingwisyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:36:07 GMT

You could use a different pen for your casing variations. You can then use different Pen Sets to change the colour of the relevant pens when needed. Given, this will only change the colour of the contour lines of the entire window, which depending on the colour of your textures, may not always be very noticable.

Ling.

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:10:23 GMT

I am not very familiar with the Graphisoft windows as I don't use them.

Seems you can change the material of internal/external casings.

And you can change the fills in section.

But I don't see a way of controlling pen colours in elevation.

The casing pen is the same as the frame pen.

Barry.

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Lingwisyer — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:15:23 GMT

It just uses the frame pen for the casing contours, but at least you can swap out the pens via Pen Sets without the issue of completely changing the visual of the window.

Ling.

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Barry Kelly — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:22:21 GMT

But the casing pen will always be the same as the frame pen.

The impression I got is @Wayne Blythe wanted the casing to be different from the frame?

Barry.

Re: Can you apply a GO to the casing on windows only?

Lingwisyer — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:42:47 GMT

Was it not to highlight which windows had which casing? In which case you would just need a different frame pen for each type that you can then colour in the relevant drawing to highlight them.

Ling.