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Am I able to set parameters to custom furniture in ArchiCAD?

aidenkashi
Newcomer

So I work for a furniture manufacturer and we are looking for programs to replace CET for creating quick and quality layouts for our customers. We have hundreds of products and most products have variations. For example, a table can have different heights and widths. Is there a way for our space planners to drag in our furniture and change the parameters easily in some sort of dialogue box? We don't want them to need to select from a list of thousands of variations. 

 

We don't mind if setting up this structure will take a lot of work, but we want something simple to use once set up. We have 3D models of every furniture variation. 

 

Thank you!

 

Operating system used: Windows

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Lingwisyer
Guru

With coding it can be done. In your example, you can create a grip that the user can grab to stretch between the set sizes, or ranges. Given existing 3D models, this "stretching" could just change which model is shown. Materials can be selected via the object dialogue. If you have furniture sets, you could set up some MVO settings to give the option to change the materials in related objects all at once.

 

 

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