Renovation status for composite walls and complex profiles

[julienK]

Our office does mainly renovation so we use renovation filters extensively. While they are very useful the workflow associated with it is suboptimal to say the least, mainly for two reasons.

1. For a project which requires replacement of the existing insulation we have to first create the wall, then duplicate it to create the existing insulation and yet another one for the new  insulation.  This could be avoided completely if we could manage those layers directly with a composite wall where we could assign renovation status to the layers.

2. Another inherited problem from this workflow especially when dealing with large residential buildings is that when we duplicate the wall to create the insulation layer we have to transform the windows into openings.

In previous Archicad versions when you selected different sized windows  and transformed them into openings, the created openings would keep their initial size. For some reason since a few Archicad versions this is no longer the case. All created openings will take the size  of the last selected window.

[arch_08]

I agree, this would be excellent.

However, we could avoid this if we could link windows, doors, etc., to multiple objects simultaneously, similar to how you can do it with openings. This way, we'd avoid most of the issues listed.

For example, you place a wall, then next to it you place a new wall that represents only the existing insulation, facade, etc. You could then connect both walls by inserting a window, door, etc., into both at the same time.

Then you demolish the existing facade and place a new one, which you again connect to the wall.

Unlike others, we don't draw double walls that then overlap. We solve the issue similarly to what's described above, with the difference being that in the new facade, which is a separate wall, we add openings in front of the window, which we then hide in schedules.

It works, but it's time-consuming and takes considerably more time than it could."