Home story settings

[Anonymous]

In Archicad 16 I could change the home story of walls, furniture, slabs...anything and the change only took place in floor plan view but they didn't change original elevation. I was using that for example to hide all beams from the main blueprint, but still keep them where they belong in the section cut and can see them anytime in story level named ''beams''. I also use this trick to hide some complex profiles for walls and others, that don't show properly on floor plan and then fix the problem with lines and fills and also for a lot of other cases. In Archicad 18 I can't do this the same way, when I change the home story of an object, they change elevation in 3D. Are there any setting that I can use to apply this trick again?

[Dontknow]

To hide objects it's easier to hide the layer where they are on.

[Anonymous]

I use layers too, but my method works really well with big or complex objects in big projects , I don't have to wait them to load again and again on floor plan or elevation with shadows. My PC is pretty old.

[David Maudlin]

kamenator:

The command you are looking for is Relink Home Story..., select the elements and then right-click, it is near the top of the context (right-click) menu.

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David

[Anonymous]

To reply your trick you can set elevation using "zero project" anchor and manually adjusting elevation. Beware i've said manually and this is a bad thing, i prefer layer and layer combination solution.

[Dontknow]

Advantage of hiding a layer is that you don't have to select the objects.