Saving Favorites and Fill Outlines

[kevin b]

I am setting up favorites in an attempt to update our office template file. Everything seems to be working as expected except for the fill outline pen color. I have several fills, have modified and made changes to get them where they should be and everything is OK. I saved the favorites, even gave them a new name to make sure there is no issue or conflict with older versions. When I open another project, and load the favorites, which are still OK as saved with the original project file, all of the fill outline pens have reverted to pen #1. I have changed them and resaved several times now, with the same result every time. At first I thought I had forgotten to save the favorites, after I fixed the outline pens but I now have a saved file with the corrected pens and cant get it to load correctly in a new file. Is this a bug or am I missing something? In my Favorites preferences, I am not excluding any parameters, nothing checked.

[Laura Yanoviak]

kevin wrote:
I am setting up favorites in an attempt to update our office template file. Everything seems to be working as expected except for the fill outline pen color. I have several fills, have modified and made changes to get them where they should be and everything is OK. I saved the favorites, even gave them a new name to make sure there is no issue or conflict with older versions. When I open another project, and load the favorites, which are still OK as saved with the original project file, all of the fill outline pens have reverted to pen #1. I have changed them and resaved several times now, with the same result every time. At first I thought I had forgotten to save the favorites, after I fixed the outline pens but I now have a saved file with the corrected pens and cant get it to load correctly in a new file. Is this a bug or am I missing something? In my Favorites preferences, I am not excluding any parameters, nothing checked.

Although I haven't experienced this specific problem, I have had consistent problems with Favorites settings "sticking" (typically with Markers, the Grid Element, and the Drawing Tool). It's so unreliable (how can one establish standards, if the standards themselves don't behave?) that I've resorted to creating a Favorites Palette.

[kevin b]

I have tried and abandoned favorites in the past because they were unreliable and never seemed to "stick" but this time everything actually seems to be behaving as expected with this one exception, which of course were the last itmes on my list of things to get on the favorites.

So what do you have in your favorites palette? Is this a customized ArchiCAD palette you made? How have you set that up to have all the different settings for say different types of walls, for example?

[Laura Yanoviak]

kevin wrote:
I have tried and abandoned favorites in the past because they were unreliable and never seemed to "stick" but this time everything actually seems to be behaving as expected with this one exception, which of course were the last itmes on my list of things to get on the favorites.

So what do you have in your favorites palette? Is this a customized ArchiCAD palette you made? How have you set that up to have all the different settings for say different types of walls, for example?

Most of our Favorites are for drawing symbols (i.e. relate to graphic standards) or default settings for schematic design (_Default Wall, _Default Partition, Demo Wall, Existing Wall, _Default Door, etc.). Because the number of construction assemblies seems infinite, I've chosen to use separate Palettes for these. We have Attribute palettes (Composites, Materials, Fills, etc.), Object palettes (Casework, Detailer, Toilet Rooms, etc.), among others. In these cases, it's nearly impossible to explain a Favorite by name, and almost necessary to provide a graphic menu.

[Anonymous]

I have lost hope in favorites as they have lost settings, layer sttings in particular, as I have migrated to newer archicad versions. It is frustrating to put the time in only to have to latter abandon the efforts. I hope these basic needs can one day be counted on. Report the bug to Graphisoft in hopes that it will be addressed.

[Rick Thompson]

In AC11 some things seem to save "better" if you save through the pallet of that thing, rather than saving through the Favorite commands. Maybe not in your case, but it is with windows and doors. I can't save a section marker accurately, I think it is just screwed up. Re-working favorites is one of my biggest wishes. It is just a powerful tool, but f@#^ up. I have reported this bug a while back, but it doesn't seem high on the list.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Mike wrote:
I have lost hope in favorites as they have lost settings, layer sttings in particular, as I have migrated to newer archicad versions.

I have noticed that the problem seems to be getting worse with each upgrade.