Changing only material finish & renovation filters.

[jdub_iom]

Hi,

Im brand new to archicad and have been modelling up a survey of an existing house which is going to have a small extension and general cosmetic overhaul of the rest of the house.

One thing we are struggling with in the office is being able to change for example a wall finish from render to timber cladding or windows from white to Anthracite on the model while keeping the old material in the "existing" filter.

Is there a way of doing this? it seems counter productive to have to set all windows to "demolished" and replace them with exactly the same windows in a new colour for the New status.


Thanks very much for your suggestions.

John.

[Lingwisyer]

You could probably do this with graphic overrides. Haven't used them much, but you should be able to set it so that while active, material x on object type y is shown as material a. In you example rule would be something like;

"If surface equals render and object classification equals wall then surface equals timber".

*Not that graphic overrides look like that, but that is essentially what the settings say...


Ling.