Format Painter like in MS Office needed

[Anonymous]

When wanting to edit lots of objects of the same type it would be very efficient to have the Format Painter tool like in MS Office SWs (like MS Word). Maybe it can be evolved to have different levels of format changes: Format Paint All, Format Paint Geometry, Format Paint Colour/Materials, Format Paint Parameters etc.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Hi Fredrik,

Of course, we have an ability equal to MS Office now with the eyedropper and syringe.

If a selection of items needs to be edited to have similar attributes, you simply select all items, open the settings dialog (cmd or ctrl-T) and make the changes. There is a trick that new users often do not learn for a while: Suppose you select a bunch of walls, each having different cut fills. What you see in the dialog depends on what was last selected. If in the dialog you already see the fill that you want all walls to have, you have to first change it to something else (arbitrary), click OK, then return to the dialog and change it to what you want. Or, select the items in a different order in the first place.

If you are trying to edit items of different types - e.g., walls and columns, then you use the 'edit selection set' dialog. (Default shortcut cmd or ctrl-shift-T.)

Does that help? If not, perhaps give an example of what you are unable to accomplish?

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I'm familiar with what you are saying, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Our company is working with high volume production of illustrative floorplans were speed means everything. All our production is built up around already prepared settings for different visualisation styles set up by company "experts". When we want to switch from one style ona a wall to another style then the draftsman should simply select the new style from "Favorities" be able to use the Format Painter tool. The alternative you are proposing would 1. require that the draftsman knows and is educated in all the underlying settings for the wall style and 2. result in formatting mistakes leading to costly corrections. In our production the need for the Format Painter tool in Archicad is even bigger than the use for it in Microsoft Word.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Fredrik wrote:
When we want to switch from one style ona a wall to another style then the draftsman should simply select the new style from "Favorities" be able to use the Format Painter tool.

Could you give a detailed description of what you mean by changing the style?

Thanks,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Sorry it turned out that I was to fast on the trigger. The eyedropper and syringe is exactly what I'm after. Big thanks for you help!

Rgds
Fredrik

[Karl Ottenstein]

You're welcome. The best wishes are those for which you don't have to wait for a new version. 😉

Please continue to participate here, but perhaps next time post your question as a "How can I...?" in a non-wish forum first. (This advice is to all newer users...)

Cheers,
Karl

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

You may already be aware of this but just in case --since you have the 'wall style' saved as a favorite, all you need to do is select the walls you want modified and double-click on the favorite.

Because since AC 10 or so you have 'parameter exclusions' for favorites, you can turn off the 'injection' of height, story 0, offset, ID and layer if you want, which actually you cannot do with the syringe.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Ignacio wrote:
You may already be aware of this but just in case --since you have the 'wall style' saved as a favorite, all you need to do is select the walls you want modified and double-click on the favorite.

Because since AC 10 or so you have 'parameter exclusions' for favorites, you can turn off the 'injection' of height, story 0, offset, ID and layer if you want, which actually you cannot do with the syringe.

Excellent - thanks for adding that, Ignacio!

Karl