Template Tidiness

[jfa_ra]

ISSUE: It would be nice if Archicad had an import "firewall" setting that would stop/prompt/prevent undesired attributes from being automatically created when an object is copied into a file from an earlier version of Archicad.  The type, amount, and naming convention of attributes seem to be ever-changing in each subsequent release of Archicad.

FRUSTRATION: Time, usually a lot of quality time is expended developing/updating template files.  While it may appear easy to simply cut & paste elements from an earlier file, the unwanted baggage they bring is sometimes not worth the cleanup. While I will sometimes go into the host file and change some features to generic, to the extent possible, there is a limit to what can be changed temporally.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION: A pop-up dialog bock that provides a potential list of attributes that would be imported along with the graphics.  A remapping of layers, building materials, fills, surfaces, line types, zones, etc., etc. would be possible.

Regards,

Joe A.

Archicad 26, (since 8.0)

MAC M1 Max

[Lee Hankins]

A dialogue similar to when you delete attributes and it asks if you want to delete or replace with another attribute would be great. 

[Laszlo Nagy]

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@jfa_ra wrote:

ISSUE: It would be nice if Archicad had an import "firewall" setting that would stop/prompt/prevent undesired attributes from being automatically created when an object is copied into a file from an earlier version of Archicad. 

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Just to clarify: when you write "object", do you mean any element type or do you mean the "Object" element type, which is a GDL-based element type?

[Benjamin Dani]

Dear All,

Thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions regarding this request!

I'm glad to say that we took notice and we have added this wish into our Wish list database.
(For future reference, you can refer to it as IDEA-12328)

I hope we see this get implemented in the future.

Have a great day!

Best regards,