Blocks

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to have in an own files "blocks" like small files used for different purposes
in projects.

Regards

[Barry Kelly]

You can select elements in plan or 3D and 'File menu > External Content > Save Selection as Module'.
You can then 'File menu > Interoperability > Merge' these into any other file.

Barry.

[Hmooslechner]

You can mark any Elements and save it as library-part. Then You can put it in as often You want. Editing the source-Parts and re-save it by using the same name will edit all parts of the same name. You can easily save the Library-Parts external for using in other Arcicad-Files or drag and drop it to other projects.

[alemanda]

Pay attention to the fact that if you edit the library part it is not said that Archicad keeps the GUID of the part and you might find yourself to replace manually all the edited library part.
This what happened to me.
I think that you have to open the library part object with the gel editor and then save from there in order to keep the same GUID. Otherwise it changes and although the library part name is the same the GUID is different and it is like you different library part.

[Karl Ottenstein]

darwinland wrote:
Is it possible to have in an own files "blocks" like small files used for different purposes in projects.

"Block" is an AutoCAD term. As mentioned in the replies, you would typically accomplish a similar thing with either library Objects or Modules. However, they will not be edited as easily as an AutoCAD block.

Since your signature indicates you are an AutoCAD user ... if you have existing blocks that you want to utilize in ARCHICAD, the easiest way to import them as a library of objects is to open a DWG that uses those blocks into an empty project and use the ARCHICAD DWG translator option to create object for blocks.

But, there is nothing identical to opening a block in-line in AutoCAD and having all uses of the block updates. The closest is with an Object, which can be opened in the same ARCHICAD session and saved - if the object has the graphics elements entirely as 2D linework in the Symbol window - providing graphical editing like AutoCAD. (Objects can have GDL commands to create 3D elements - but editing those is not graphical.)

If you want 3D 'blocks' that are graphically editable - then Modules is the way to go. However, you cannot open a module 'in-line' in a mini-editor as with a block - instead, you would have to launch a separate instance of ARCHICAD to edit/modify the Module.