Renovation Filters not usable for some items

[Velocipede2022]

Hello -

I am new to Archicad.  Tried Revit and thought it was way to rigid/dogmatic for a small custom residential firm.  Supposedly Archicad is more flexible.  However, I am baffled by some aspects.  So was hoping to get an understanding of why it is setup this way.

1-Why not allow Section Markers to be assigned to a renovation filter?  So to have a section that serves the demo plans, I have to have a separate layer for DEMO.  Seems like it could be an easy thing to do, so guessing there is a rational answer...  I can even have notes be on demo filter, so really having to have one layer just for demo markers doesn't make since to me. 

2-Demo Stories - Why not have stories also be on renovation filter?  I am demoing a house and changing  the upper floor level.  The demo walls are not aligned with the existing floor level so I have to reelevate them all. The renovation filter seem like a great great tool, so curious why these few limitations.  

3-Why not have notes be "View Dependent"??  I don't know about other firms, but I never need to have the same text (except for room names) be on two different drawings. All this does is make Layer management a bit more complicated. 

4-Select the stories to show an item on.  I am curious why ArchiCAD does not allow me to select the stories I want to show an item on. I understand how selecting individual story names could be more difficult coding wise, but seems like in the custom settings, it could be easy to a dialog box, "Show on home story & the 5th & the 6th stories up" For example.  I think this would add so much more flexibility for how stories are used.  

5- The other idea I had was to have a story selection option is the graphic overrides. So for example, I could have all Walls on story above show as blue lines....

Anyway curious to hear people thoughts.  Are these good suggestions, or is there a very logical rational for these limitation.  Thanks!!

[David Maudlin]

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@Velocipede2022 wrote:

1-Why not allow Section Markers to be assigned to a renovation filter?

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This is a new feature in AC29.

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David

[Laszlo Nagy]

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@Velocipede2022 wrote:

2-Demo Stories - Why not have stories also be on renovation filter?  I am demoing a house and changing  the upper floor level.  The demo walls are not aligned with the existing floor level so I have to reelevate them all. The renovation filter seem like a great great tool, so curious why these few limitations.  

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Well, I guess you could do that, and that would be an additional capability that the application should/could do. I myself have not heard this specific wish about Reno Statuses before. But of course, there could be a lot of other things, like the ability to assign a Renovation Status to indidivual skins of Composites. There are a few wishes about this are already in the Wishlist.

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@Velocipede2022 wrote:

3-Why not have notes be "View Dependent"??  I don't know about other firms, but I never need to have the same text (except for room names) be on two different drawings. All this does is make Layer management a bit more complicated. 

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I think this comes mainly from the differences in how Archicad and Revit work. Revit has Views. Archicad has Viewpoints (visible in the Project Map of the Navigator Palette) and Views (visible in the View Map of the Navigator Palette). The contents of Viewpoints are displayed with whatever the current "Global" View Settings are. The contents of a View, on the other hand, are displayed with the View Settings saved for that specific View (just like in Revit). I guess this fundamental difference is the reason why annotation elements are not View-dependent. E.g., you could have a Section Viewpoint, and you could save multiple Views of that Viewpoint, each having different View Settings. In Revit, you would have to draw separate Section Lines for each of these Views. In Archicad, you can draw on Section line, which defines the Viewpoint, and you can then save as many Views of that Vewpoint as you like.

[Laszlo Nagy]

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@Velocipede2022 wrote:

4-Select the stories to show an item on.  I am curious why ArchiCAD does not allow me to select the stories I want to show an item on. I understand how selecting individual story names could be more difficult coding wise, but seems like in the custom settings, it could be easy to a dialog box, "Show on home story & the 5th & the 6th stories up" For example.  I think this would add so much more flexibility for how stories are used.  

5- The other idea I had was to have a story selection option is the graphic overrides. So for example, I could have all Walls on story above show as blue lines....

4. above is something I wished in the past for a long time, it could give so much more flexibility to tools if it was possible to define on an element level what Stories you wish to see that element.

5. This is also a valid wish.

You should make these wishes (2., 4, and 5.) in the Wishlist so others can vote on them to express their support:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/idb-p/wishlist

[Lingwisyer]

Once the consistant storey setting update finallly comes through, point 5 would be a pretty great improvement.