Hi all,
This wish is for more granularity regarding nested hotlinks. For many years we have had the option to "Skip Nested Modules" which for simple buildings worked ok for exluding nested hotlinks that you had used for context, but it fell apart if you started using Hotlinks to for modular layouting. There was no way to skip the neighbouring building but keep the bathrooms. For a long time you would just hide the hosting Hotlink Master Layer, but with the advent of Design Options, the nested hotlinks can be placed on a specific Option to later be completely excluded. Another area where we resort to hybridising Design Options to resolve issues with the functionality of other features...
Sticking to the current UI, a solution could be to identify .pln verse .mod Hotlinks and only exclude .pln when skipping nested. This would consolidate the identity of .mod files, which until we can edit in place, feel like they have very limited advantages over a clean, culled back .pln file. It's great when you Edit Module in seperate ArchiCAD and the attributes are not identical, and attribute folders may as well not exist...
An alternative, which I feel is more streamlined, is to invert the functionalities depth. Instead of Skipping Nested Modules, the toggle would then skip the placed Hotlink when nested. In a model heirachy of A=>B=>C, instead of toggling the setting when placing B into A, to exclude C, you would instead toggle it when placing C into B. Put the control in the file that hosts the nested module. I have yet to encounter a situation where I have only sometimes needed to exclude a nested module...
Another option would be to expand the current UI by adding a dialogue to pick which nested modules are excluded, much like the Design Options dialogue.
A non-option is to just put everything in a single file with only one layer of hotlinks, because we all know how well AC goes with high polygons, and not everyone needs a super computer...
Ling.
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