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Surfaces need more parameters.

Titiriga
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Hello,

 

This is more of a rant than it is a question but here it goes.

 

There are 3 types of schedules available in ArchiCAD, Elements, Components and Surfaces. The first 2 are deffinetly wider in scope, but Surfaces has one important relevant parameter, Exposed Area.

 

This parameter is usefull, but a major drawback is that the Surfaces themselves lack in propertyes to be listed. Most of a Surface's properties have to do with how it looks or how it's rendered in 2D and 3D. For listing, the only relevant property is its name. Surfaces dont even have a ID box, let alone a description box or the posibility to add other information to them or to assign a Classification system to them or Properties. I'm shure a ID box isn't so hard to implement, it dosen't even have to be a new version of ArchiCAD, it could just be a update, a fix, something like that.

 

Sorry for the outburst.

 

Operating system used: Windows

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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

You should make a wish in the Wishlist so people can vote for it and if it gets enough votes within a specific amount of time it will be submitted to Graphisoft:

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/idb-p/wishlist

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I've never submited a wish before so I'm not shure if I'm doing something wrong, but the submit a wish button is greyed out and I also cant vote on other wishes. Any ideas why? Thank you.

The FAQ's might help.

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Our-Community/Wishlist-Frequently-Asked-Questions/ta-p/603212

 

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Barry.

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I've submitted my wish using the office account. I couldn't help myself and added a few other wishes.

 

Thank you.

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