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.

[Laszlo Nagy]

In other wish topics, people from Graphisoft stated that the "On hold" status does not mean that it is completely abandoned, but it also means that it is not planned to be worked on in the near future. (How long that means is hard to say.)

[Patrick M]

given that this thread is 4 years old... and this was brought up when bMats were first introduces... you'll have to excuse the lack of enthusiasm accompanied by the new status of this wish

[Lingwisyer]

On hold is not thrown out, but somewhere in the attic...

[Jp1138]

The way things are moved around in the roadmap makes it fairly useless. I understand things can change, but there doesn´t seem to be any commitment to advance things through the roadmap, while some just arrive in coming soon out of nowhere and other just dissapear 🙄