attribute manager and materials hatchings appends
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‎2007-10-23
11:58 PM
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‎2023-05-26
03:27 PM
by
Rubia Torres
All of the CStone attributes that were appended had their Hatchings set to Brick; i had to go to each individually in the OPTIONS/ELEMENT ATTRIBUTES/MATERIALS to set the Hatching correctly.
Why in the world would GS not allow the Hatching to be carried over when appending a material list?
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‎2007-10-24 01:18 AM
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‎2007-10-24 05:41 PM
I redid the Append for the CStone materials and this time they came across with the correct hatchings.
Two [sic] possible things going on here:
1) the computer did it
2) brain fart
3) electrical short between the keyboard and the floorboard

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‎2007-10-25 01:25 AM
If you Append your fills, or even if you Merge these assigned to 3D elements, ArchiCAD will bring in all the attributes, but it runs deeper than that.
Each attribute has an ID. If the ID of the hatch (fill) is already taken in the host file, ArchiCAD will simply assign the merged fills the lowest available IDs. However the material still assigns the hatch by ID, so they no longer correspond.
As Laura said, if you Overwrite the fills, the ID will be overwritten and the link between material and hatch will remain. The downside is that the existing fills will be overwritten too and lost.
So you need to exercise caution. Analyze both your files first, and alter one of them prior to merging them.
Cheers,
Link.
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‎2007-11-07 04:29 PM
I am finding that I cannot alter the material ID's (assuming that is the sequential number with "#" at the header). I have tried as many ways as I can come up with to edit the ID# so that it is sequential following the last ID of the target file that I want to append to, but that field is un-editable.
Can you elaborate on altering the ID# of the source file; or is that the best approach?

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‎2007-11-07 05:14 PM
46cruisair wrote:OK... are you ready for some fun?
Can you elaborate on altering the ID# of the source file; or is that the best approach?
Open the Attribute Manager, select the Attribute who's ID you want to change and select 'Append' to move a copy to the right-hand panel. Now, select the Attribute on the right and hit 'Duplicate' until you reach the desired ID number (I usually make about 10 copies, and then select those 10 and make 10 more, and then select those 20 and make 40 more, etc. if it's a high number). Each duplicate will be renamed with an additive suffix (2), (3), .... (?). You can either save these duplicates as an .aat file, to import into the necessary file, or select the Attribute with the desired ID, and 'Overwrite' to the list on the left. Rename the original Attribute (assuming it may be in use), and rename the duplicate Attribute with the original's name. Done.
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‎2007-11-07 07:36 PM
GS needs to fix that operation. What do you suppose the problem is with at least allowing the edit of the ID# field and putting in a routine to check for a identical ID# and alerting of the duplicate? Geesh!

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‎2007-11-07 07:40 PM
46cruisair wrote:It's really not that bad, once you've done it a couple of hundred times...
Thanks for describing the methodology > my reaction is "you've got to be kidding."

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‎2007-11-07 08:09 PM
My technique is not much different from Laura's (there aren't a lot of options) but this file does help with the process. I also use it to force IDs to arbitrarily high numbers to ensure that my custom attributes don't conflict with standard ones.
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‎2007-11-07 09:34 PM
Matthew wrote:then maybe we can call it "a few special dummies"
- I'm sure there weren't hundreds of them.
- just for fun.