how to set the renovation filter

[Anonymous]

This is so frustrating. I am modeling an (e) house and set the Renovation Filter to Existing but every single wall, floor, stair, window, door, toilet, sink, line, text, label, etc is set for something else and doesn't sho correctly till I go back into the file and change it's setting...one at a timr.

Isn't there a way to globally tell this program that everything I am doing is EXISTING... that all library parts are EXISTING, to have to reset each thing is a waste of time and at the other end of the project, if I didn't set a couple of items, my views dont' display correctly...

[Aaron Bourgoin]

use the 3D window and the "Edit Selection Set Tool" Should be a lot quicker.

[Anonymous]

Aaron wrote:
use the 3D window and the "Edit Selection Set Tool" Should be a lot quicker.

Did that , but when placing new windows, doors, etc have to go back into the toos after they are placed and change them to existing. All I want to do is have a button to tell AC that I am building Existing on the Renovation filter, not to every tool twice once to put the window in, and again to set it for Existing...

[Aaron Bourgoin]

okay.

then make sure you have the Renovation palette open and the proper status picked as you place objects.

[rob2218]

good response.....OP...did this resolve your issue?
Think of the renovation filter as the "pline". If you start a pline and it has an arrow, or certain linetype....and you complete your pline command. The next time you select "pline" again......it will place a pline with an arrow head and the linetype of the "LAST" pline you placed. I know, abit odd to not have a default but the "default" is the last command that specific function used.

Same for reno filters......I think. Guru's is this not the case?

[Anonymous]

Aaron wrote:
okay.

then make sure you have the Renovation palette open and the proper status picked as you place objects.

and do the same thiing over and over and over.ad naseum..what I am asking is how to tell this tool what I want, not the other way around...

[Anonymous]

rob2218 wrote:
good response.....OP...did this resolve your issue?
Think of the renovation filter as the "pline". If you start a pline and it has an arrow, or certain linetype....and you complete your pline command. The next time you select "pline" again......it will place a pline with an arrow head and the linetype of the "LAST" pline you placed. I know, abit odd to not have a default but the "default" is the last command that specific function used.

Same for reno filters......I think. Guru's is this not the case?

it does not work like that, I know what you are saying, but the renovation filter DOES NOT TAKE A SETTING FROM ONE WINDOW TO THE NEXT, EACH TIME IT HAS TO BE SET.

[rob2218]

hum....so, then if you had to place windows in say..."existing" renovation filter...all the time....then what you are saying is that it switches back to some other renovation filter?

I've found that with renovation filters, sometimes the naming conventions of the renovations filters themselves, if not out of the box, and are "customized" per the office naming convention, throws parameters out of whack.

For example, if you have "renovation filters" that have a " | " (bar) in the naming convention, then Archicad has a hard time exporting those filters out to an XML file. So I know there are some nuainces (sp?) that may cause reno filters to misbehave.

GLWT.

[Anonymous]

rob2218 wrote:
hum....so, then if you had to place windows in say..."existing" renovation filter...all the time....then what you are saying is that it switches back to some other renovation filter?

I've found that with renovation filters, sometimes the naming conventions of the renovations filters themselves, if not out of the box, and are "customized" per the office naming convention, throws parameters out of whack.

For example, if you have "renovation filters" that have a " | " (bar) in the naming convention, then Archicad has a hard time exporting those filters out to an XML file. So I know there are some nuainces (sp?) that may cause reno filters to misbehave.

GLWT.

What I am saying: I set the Renovation filter to Existing. I pick a window, set it up to what I want, place it in a wall. It does not show, only the outline of the window shows, I then have to select that window, open it up and set the renovation setting to Existing,,,,then, only then does the window show. Have to do this for every window, door, toilet, roof, line... WHAT I AM SAYING IS THE EVEN THOUGH I SET THE RENOVATION FILTER TO EXISTING...I HAVE TO AGAIN GO INTO WHATEVER TOOL I USED AND TELL IT TO BE ON EXISTING....
even though when setting up my file i set the Renovation tool to Existing....

What I would like is for me to be able to dictate my settings when I set up the file so that I don't waste time doing everything twice....

why don't you try it...if you can set your renovation filter to Existing and place windows that show properly...please tell me how you did it.

[Anonymous]

ok, using the pull down menu in documents, scroll to the renovation filter, set it to existing.

draw a wall, open the wall tool, scroll down to renovation status...see that it is set for demo, change it to existing and to show on all revelant filters. Magic wand that wall, draw another wall, open the wall tool, scroll down to renovation status...see that it is set for demo, change it to existing and to show on all revelant filters. Magic wand that wall, draw another wall, open the wall tool, scroll down to renovation status...see that it is set for demo.

same for windows, lines, toilets everything...what I am asking is how to change this default to existing so I do not have to do this over and over....