Relink Home Story

[Erich]

While I cannot speak to the work flow for others, for me the new (with 17) automatic linking of elements to a home story based on 3D positioning is a very poorly implemented "feature" and is one that is causing me a great deal of pain.

I wish for the option to change this functionality. I would like a button in the in Work Environment settings to use the new functionality or prefer the older (pre 17) functionality. Along with this, I would like to have a simple button to push on an operation by operation basis to change the W.E. determined functionality.

[Anonymous]

This is a VERY big deal for me. So far I have not had time to see if there are any workarounds or consider what would constitute a reasonable fix that would enable the advantages (assuming they are real) of the new features while not scrapping the old ones.

As it stands I may have to relegate ArchiCAD to my smaller hobby projects and use other programs on my larger, "real" jobs.

[Anonymous]

I may be on the wrong track with this - is this about linking, say, the top of a wall to the storey above, or automatic assignment of storey setting based on the elevation of a new (or copied) element. If it's the latter, read on...

With certain objects (Cadimage Boundary for example) it is possible to place the object on a storey which is not the home storey. The warning dialogue below pops up. Would it be enough that if an element was intending to change home storey that a similar warning appeared and gave an option to do something about it?

[Erich]

S3art,

While having a pop up warning with an button option would be an improvement over the steps currently required, I was thinking more of having a button in the info box or in the tracker that would be less obtrusive.

My thought was that the main behavior control occurs in the work environment and an override option occurs in the operational context.

[Stephen Dolbee]

I would select essential as many times as I could on this issue. I just spent a day "teaching" someone new to Archicad and had to correct so many times it was embarrassing. I should have trained him on ver 16.

[Eduardo Rolon]

It would be interesting to know the reasoning behind the not needed vote.

[David Collins]

ejrolon wrote:
It would be interesting to know the reasoning behind the not needed vote.

Guilty!
I confess it was an ill-considered vote. I just wasn't sure that a complete global disable was the best way to go. For some reason with my own workflow I rarely run into a problem with this feature, though I have great sympathy for the pain of those that do. It was one of those instances when the ability to change or withdraw a vote would have been nice... in this case about 90 seconds after I had cast it.

Update, two weeks later: As I'm working with more with ArchiCAD 17, I'm starting to collect my own horror stories concerning this feature. Forget the option to disable: it should be eliminated altogether! "Relink Home Story" just fixes behavior that never should have been there in the first place.