Grouping Zones

[Steve Jepson]

How can I group some zones together so I can move them around.

[Djordje]

Ben wrote:
What Djordje meant ,Djordje please correct me if I'm wrong,was that you can mark elements just as you have done, but under window-->Palette Display, you will find at the bottom of the menu, Show Selections.

Exactly that.

woodster wrote:
However, if you use the Find & Select feature (Edit/Find & Select...) you can save the Selection Set and it can be saved as a part of a Template as well. Funny, I would think that Selection Sets saved through the Find & Select... featured would show up in the Show Selections window? a wish?

Hmmm ... this is funny. Normally, not much of the building elements are saved in a template, BUT - ha! - now I see a reason: you should save section lines and details in the template, so therefore it is logical.

However, the other part has to be investigated yet!

[davdelven]

Did you try to create an IfcZone using the IFC Manager, including the Zones (IfcSpace instances) you want to manage as a group? You could also do the same with IfcGroup, as a parent of IfcZone within the IFC Schema. 

[Barry Kelly]

Just wanted to point out you have replied to a 17 year old post.

IFC wasn't even a thing then.

Barry.

[davdelven]

Hello, Barry

It was, not maybe within GS Archicad. 

IFC 1.5.1. was publicly shown in a Frankfurt conference in 1996.

However, it is always nice to reply a 17 y.o. message 🙂

Btw, do you have a clue which was the date GS implemented the IFC add-on? From what I know it was developed by a third party. Any information? 

Kind regards, 

David

[Barry Kelly]

Actually IFC may well have been in Archicad back then.

I just checked version 12 (that was about 13/14 years ago?) and that has IFC.

It is an add-on but I think not 3rd party, it is included with Archicad.

Barry.

[davdelven]

It would be nice to know a bit of transparent history about this essential and core functionality within Graphisoft Archicad. 

@Laszlo Nagy  Some additional information? 

[Laszlo Nagy]

Sorry, no, I don't know which version of Archicad IFC was introduced. 

But I checked my materials, all the things I did for Graphisoft over the years, and I found an Interactive Training Guide I did for Graphisoft in 2007 for Archicad 11, and even then, there was a step of exporting IFC to be opened in Tekla Structures. I also found a PNG file with the name IFC_logo_AC10 from 2006. So, definitely, for at least 15 years, we had IFC in Archicad.

[davdelven]

Hi, Laszlo

I knew that guide, indeed. 

Interesting *.png! 🙂

We'll keep exploring 

Thanks

David