How to save Textures as .GSM file in Archicad 26

[Sophie Cieply]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Archicad 26 and was wondering if there's a way to save my textures so I don't need to keep recreating them each time I start a project?

I have attached a screenshot of what the Surface Settings shows me.

Thank you in advance,

Sophie

[Lingwisyer]

You can use the attribute manager to transfer your textures into your template file. You just need to ensure you are loading all of the relevant libraries.

Other than that:

Options => Element Attributes => Enable Saving a Surface as GSM

Options => Element Attributes => Surfaces => [Relevant Surface] => Save as GSM

[Barry Kelly]

Terminology is critical here.

A texture is an image file used by a surface material for viewing in 3D.

These texture image files just need to be located in a loaded library for your surfaces to have access to them.

Surface materials are attributes.

You can use the Attribute Manager to transfer them from one file to another.

Barry.