Modeling
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Surface Picker

Not really sure what to say here... the screen captures say it all:

I believe this is what we have to look forward to in future versions. There has been a devolving of the GUI over the past years, and this one is egregious. I'm not sure who is driving the car at GS when it comes to making these decisions, but they've gone off the road.

I present to you, the Surface attribute picker in 26 vs. 25... Happy scrolling!

 

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Rex Maximilian, Honolulu, USA - www.rexmaximilian.com
ArchiCAD 27 (user since 3.4, 1991)
16" MacBook Pro; M1 Max (2021), 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 32-Core GPU
Apple Vision Pro w/ BIMx
Creator of the Maximilian ArchiCAD Template System
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This culture of ignorance and illusion has reigned at Graphisoft for a long time. It is sometimes supported by some users. It is on this basis that the company wants to continue to ignore sensible proposals for Archicad 26.

Martin Luther Jules
AC 10-27 (Full)
Asus | 64 GB RAM | Windows 11

I know where every single material resides in the large pop up from months and years of using the attributes. Clicking on the picker, then quickly clicking on the surface takes a second, or two at most. I fear scrolling will waste time like never before... even pausing to type a few letters of the surface will be time consuming when multiplied by the many times we will do it daily.

A really big failing for its users by GS here.

Rex Maximilian, Honolulu, USA - www.rexmaximilian.com
ArchiCAD 27 (user since 3.4, 1991)
16" MacBook Pro; M1 Max (2021), 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 32-Core GPU
Apple Vision Pro w/ BIMx
Creator of the Maximilian ArchiCAD Template System
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator

Don't fear, it is true.

Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
another Moderator

New Archicad 26 Build 3010 on August 4. No changes here. Still has the truncated surfaces list.

Rex Maximilian, Honolulu, USA - www.rexmaximilian.com
ArchiCAD 27 (user since 3.4, 1991)
16" MacBook Pro; M1 Max (2021), 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 32-Core GPU
Apple Vision Pro w/ BIMx
Creator of the Maximilian ArchiCAD Template System