Fill Pattern Attribute ID Problem

[MMontgomery]

We've got a project that somehow lost many of it's fill patterns and many of the library objects now have missing fills associated with them.

For instance, D2 Transom 81 is looking for fill patterns 19, 73, and 28 - all of which are missing. Using Attribute Manager, I find them from another project and import those fills. The fills come into the project but they aren't associated with the same number the library part is looking for (19, 73, 28).

My question - is there a way to edit the attribute number associated to each fill so that I can fix the problem globally from one point rather than having to go to each library part and choose new fill patterns? The attribute manager won't allow me to edit the number associated with each fill, it's greyed out.

Hopefully I've explained this clearly

[Djordje]

MMontgomery wrote:
We've got a project that somehow lost many of it's fill patterns and many of the library objects now have missing fills associated with them.

Try to forward merge the project with lost fills into a blank project that has all the needed fills.

[MMontgomery]

I had tried that, but for some reason it applies Fill Pattern 1 (Brick Common) everywhere there is a missing fill. I expected it to do probably the same thing you expected and have it find the missing fills and apply them - but noooooooooo

oh well... Thanks for the help

[Greg Kmethy]

It may not help in your case, but when all fills are missing, it usually helps to open a file that has the same fill setup (e.g. an old backup of the file), then open the damaged file. If ArchiCAD finds attribute information damaged, it will use the ones from the previously open file.
Worth trying.

Greg

[Djordje]

MMontgomery wrote:
I had tried that, but for some reason it applies Fill Pattern 1 (Brick Common) everywhere there is a missing fill. I expected it to do probably the same thing you expected and have it find the missing fills and apply them - but noooooooooo

I said "... that has all the needed fills". This is the key - if you do not have the file with all the needed fills, try saving parts with the missing fills as modules and pull them in.

[MMontgomery]

The file I merged was our template file and has every needed fill in it. Still, it applied the index #1 fill to all missing fills.

I went through and found all the missing fills I needed and just used the 'overwrite' command in attribute manager - it fixed it. I was just hoping for a bit quicker way.