Wishes
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Complex Profile Materials

Bruce
Expert
It would be handy to have the ability to override the 'master' material definition for a complex profile in the model.

An example is when you want multiple instances of the same profile to have different materials.
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owen
Newcomer
agreed ...

implementation would be tricky though as to do this properly would really require some sort of dynamic UI generated from the profile which enabled you to select each of the profiles materials and change them. Potentially quite difficult given what you can draw as a profile!

You would basically need a dialog within each relevant tool which shows the loaded profile hatched according to material elements (for example) each of which can be clicked, generating a material dialog to change its material.

or something like that

given the current ArchiCAD UI this is not a very encouraging thought is it?
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Anonymous
Not applicable
I do not know very much about the UI, but may be it could be possible to have profiles without any attached material, and then assign them materials at the time of putting them into the model.
Bruce
Expert
Maybe a fully detailed system could be developed later. I was thinking for starters simply have a check box that says "Use Complex Profile Materials" - similar to how you can override object materials under the "Model" tab.

Then the whole profile would use the default wall/beam/column material.

This, to me, would suffice for what I've found I need to do.
Bruce Walker
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Anonymous
Not applicable
There is an existing wish for this here -

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=21186

Another related wish is here -

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=134015
Gerald D Lock
Advocate
Haha. classic. Greta minds DO think alike! I just posted an almost identical wish yesterday, and have been re-directed here. Consider my vote cast:
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Gerald D Lock
Advocate
Graphisoft R&D team:

please note this was originally posted in
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=36789

but then I realised it should be here in "Wishes" - please refer to the poll results there when assessing priority for implementation.

Thanks.

PS. This is an ESSENTIAL and OVERDUE feature that has been consistently overlooked since 2008 (that is the earliest request I can locate on this forum)
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