FRUSTRATED! Quickly, How to change wall/settings box gone?

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I'm very frustrated. I have a short period of time to work on a model, and Archicad is acting up. For starters, when I click on an object, normally the toolbar pops up that has the options to either rotate, move, scale, etc. Basically I can choose what I want to do with the object. This is no longer there. Also, resetting the workspace doesn't fix this.


Also, I just upgraded to Archicad 17 and I'm clueless with the new material settings. I hate it! If I just want to change ONE wall to a different material, how do I do this? Can I just turn this new "feature" off all together? I'd rather just change everything independent of each other instead of changing everything at once.



Thanks!

[Karl Ottenstein]

For the missing pet palettes, see if this article or its solution helps:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/PetPaletteDisappears

For the new Building Materials in 17... you would have to assign a different building material to that one wall, possibly creating a new building material by duplicating an existing one and modifying it. This change in 17 is a huge change - and along with other new features - warrants spending time learning 17 before migrating a project. There are lots of short instructional videos as well as the documentation resources. Since you say you're short of time... stick with 16 or earlier for now.

The new Building Materials are much more powerful, consistent and definitely more BIM than the way things were done previously. But, this big change makes it difficult to just move a project to 17 and continue working in the same way as in the past. (Lots of people upgrade every year and never use the new features or notice that they're there...not an option with 17.)

PS Your signature still says AC 13, and does not indicate your OS. Issues such as the pet palette thing can be OS dependent, so you might edit your signature ("Profile" text link near top right of this page) to include more info.

[James B]

Alternatively, if you just want to change the outer surface of the Wall - and not it's Building Material/Composite/Profile, you can override the surfaces. Go to the Model panel and push in the buttons in front of the surface popups. Under the heading "Override Surfaces".

[Anonymous]

Karl wrote:
For the missing pet palettes, see if this article or its solution helps:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/PetPaletteDisappears

For the new Building Materials in 17... you would have to assign a different building material to that one wall, possibly creating a new building material by duplicating an existing one and modifying it. This change in 17 is a huge change - and along with other new features - warrants spending time learning 17 before migrating a project. There are lots of short instructional videos as well as the documentation resources. Since you say you're short of time... stick with 16 or earlier for now.

The new Building Materials are much more powerful, consistent and definitely more BIM than the way things were done previously. But, this big change makes it difficult to just move a project to 17 and continue working in the same way as in the past. (Lots of people upgrade every year and never use the new features or notice that they're there...not an option with 17.)

PS Your signature still says AC 13, and does not indicate your OS. Issues such as the pet palette thing can be OS dependent, so you might edit your signature ("Profile" text link near top right of this page) to include more info.

Okay, thank you! This fixed it. I have my palette back. And yea, maybe I should just go back to using the old version of Archicad. I know that very well. And thanks for the heads up on the signature, I'll be sure to change that. I'm running OSX 10.9 and obviously running Archicad 17.

Alternatively, if you just want to change the outer surface of the Wall - and not it's Building Material/Composite/Profile, you can override the surfaces. Go to the Model panel and push in the buttons in front of the surface popups. Under the heading "Override Surfaces".

I see that header, but everything is grayed out so I can't click on anything.

[James B]

adamvk wrote:
I see that header, but everything is grayed out so I can't click on anything.

The Surfaces are disabled because the button to their left are not pressed in. So currently the Surfaces are coming from the Building Materials. By pressing these buttons you choose to override the Surface and the Surface popup then becomes active - note that this only affects the outer most surface of the wall.

It is worthwhile to watch the many videos on the AC17 changes and also you can read the migration guide from the ArchiCAD Help Center. They can help to understand the new workflows.

[Anonymous]

James wrote:

adamvk wrote:
I see that header, but everything is grayed out so I can't click on anything.

The Surfaces are disabled because the button to their left are not pressed in. So currently the Surfaces are coming from the Building Materials. By pressing these buttons you choose to override the Surface and the Surface popup then becomes active - note that this only affects the outer most surface of the wall.

It is worthwhile to watch the many videos on the AC17 changes and also you can read the migration guide from the ArchiCAD Help Center. They can help to understand the new workflows.

Ah, okay. That seems so obvious now. Thanks for the help!