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True inline attributes

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At the moment all attributes you define inline will be added to the project.
This is clearly nonsense and just pollutes the attributes list.
(Ever downloaded a window from bimobjects just to find you suddenly have 2000 new materials? )

We need the ability to have true inline attributes, meaning attributes, that are only available inside the object that defined them.
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Barry Kelly
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runxel wrote:
We need the ability to have true inline attributes, meaning attributes, that are only available inside the object that defined them.

I absolutely agree.

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runxel wrote:
At the moment all attributes you define inline will be added to the project.
This is clearly nonsense and just pollutes the attributes list.
(Ever downloaded a window from bimobjects just to find you suddenly have 2000 new materials? )

We need the ability to have true inline attributes, meaning attributes, that are only available inside the object that defined them.
The worst one we ever downloaded were the KLING Loading Dock Objects. They create RAL surfaces (192) and the whole thing behaves like a virus without our ever having placed a single object in a file.
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Yes. This is very annoying.
But for me nothing is worse than an Attribute Avalanche by a bunch of hotlinked modules.
So I voted Maybe... Until we have a Dedicated Shared Resource File that would surely address this issue.
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In order to use manufacturers object libraries we need TRUE inline attributes.

I actually thought this was the case with all attributes as it is for Surfaces but I just tested Fills and was very disappointed to find the attributes polluted.

I do think that Fills are less important than Surfaces as we should be using industry standards for material representation with Fills, so there should not be custom fills coming in from external content (in an ideal world, which sounds like a ludicrous term to even say in this day and age). Last year I completed a project for Knauf plasterboard in which we created an automatic attribute generator; one of the key considerations was to ensure we only use OOTB Archicad Fills. Though this contents purpose was to populate attributes we still wanted to be efficient and not create unnecessary attributes.

Has anyone tested Lines
Fills - No: I just tested, as other have, and confirmed they do populate the attributes.
Surfaces - Yes: from my test just then and all the content I have created that has inline surfaces they do NOT populate the attributes.
Lines - ??
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I had this attribute pollution from a BIMcomponents window manufacturer which introduced their full colour pallet. As a consequence I try avoid using their components for this reason. In an ideal world I agree, non-generic component attributes should be self contained.
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Barry Kelly
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Kristian wrote:
Has anyone tested Lines

Lines defined in an object script do create new attributes as well.


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Laszlo Nagy
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This sounds to me like an Essential wish.
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Minh Nguyen
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Hi All,

Thank you very much for creating this poll, and for those of you who voted to express their opinion.

I am happy to say we took notice of this wish and I have added it to our Wish List database (please refer to it as IDEA-1290). Hopefully, our Product Management team will adopt this one in the future.

Thank you all once more, and I wish you a great day!

Best regards,
Minh

Minh Nguyen
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I have just come across this problem again.

 

In version 22, attributes defined in an object were not added to the attribute list until that object was actually placed..

My office has just made the jump from 22 to 25.

 

In 25, that object just has to be in your loaded library and it will add to the attributes.

Great, because as we have been converting our old jobs to 25, some of the fills are getting messed up.

 

So somewhere between 22 and 25, the way it works changed.

Why?

 

So it's not really an idea that needs implementing.

It is a bug that needs fixing.

 

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