Editing surface colors

[walkinthepark]

Please forgive me if I do not possess the requisite knowledge required to carry on an intelligent dialogue on this subject. I started my current project many years ago when I acquired Archicad 22 Solo. I never did become proficient in handling the tasks I am asking about and hope you can get me rolling again in the right direction. What I am trying to do is override the colors of BLUE, DARK GREEN, PALE BLUE, and ROYAL BLUE as well as the METAL-FINISH-STAINLESS STEEL and METAL-TRIM-GOLD in the SUFACES menu with six of the colors on the palette enclosed (COBALT BLUE, EMERALD GREEN, CAROLINA BLUE, NAVY BLUE, GOLD, AND SILVER. I have spent some time on the Archicad You Tube Channel on topics that I THOUGHT would point me in the right direction, but I found that most of them dealt with how to change everything BUT the colors. I would just like to get some straightforward steps on how to make these changes but have some questions before you provide my answers. 1) Is there a problem overriding two metal surfaces with colors. 2) Will the SURFACES options in all of my files be changed or will I have to override them separately.  I guess this is where my lack of expertise with Embedded vs Linked Libraries is hurting me. Hopefully you can set me straight.  3) If I override these color options in my current files, will I be able to access those six colors that were overridden in the above-mentioned process if I start a completely new file. The sample color squares enclosed for GOLD, EMERALD GREEN, COBALT BLUE, and SILVER each have some degree of waviness or imperfections in them, how can I get them smoothed out and made more homogenous. Is there an easy way to import those color squares into the current SURFACES library?

[walkinthepark]

OK, I was able to "Frankenstein " the emerald green and use it and save it in one file, now I'm trying to edit them across the board like your 9-4 message said. Where do I find the Template File. Whenever I access the Attribute Manager it takes me to a dialogue box that mentions Layers, is the Surface Color options in there somewhere?

[Karl Ottenstein]

You need to click the button for Surfaces to filter the attributes by surfaces.  You can then copy/overwrite surfaces from one file into another.

You're asking basic questions that are explained fully in the Help files online:

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/22/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC22_Help%2F020_Confi...