Custom Door will not change surface material

[4hotshoes]

I have tried many different way to change the custom door I created to a different surface than what it was created in. How is this done?

[Barry Kelly]

4hotshoes wrote:
I have tried many different way to change the custom door I created to a different surface than what it was created in. How is this done?

This has cropped up a couple of times recently.


https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61612


It can be scripted but I wouldn't bother.
The materials you use when you create the custom door is what you are stuck with.

I haven't tried using the surface painter tool.
Maybe that will help to swap the surfaces.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Custom Door or Custom Door Leaf?

For a Custom Door, it would depend on if the material assigned to it is linked to a visible Parameter.

For a Leaf, you are unable to unless you duplicate the entire door hierarchy and add in your leaf's material Parameter into each sub-object. As Barry has mentioned, this is most likely not worthwhile.



Ling.

[4hotshoes]

It is a leaf. I wish I had known I could not change it. I did not save my work on it, because I did not know where I could save it. Is there a way to copy the leaf out as a slab, edit and save?

[vistasp]

You might want to save such parts to a special layer or storey so that they can be modified as and when needed. Just make sure they don't get scheduled!

For now, you can convert a copy of the door to a morph, remove the extraneous parts, change the surface as needed, and re-save it as a door leaf just as you did earlier.

[Stress Co_]

When I create a custom door leaf,
I use a custom Surface material
(generically named, for example: "Front Door")

I can change the surface in "Surface Settings"
without having to to open/modify/re-save the the original
parts I used to create the leaf.

[Lingwisyer]

Stress wrote:
When I create a custom door leaf,
I use a custom Surface material
(generically named, for example: "Front Door")

I can change the surface in "Surface Settings"
without having to to open/modify/re-save the the original
parts I used to create the leaf.

Now if only there was a way to copy settings between surfaces...