Currently, Model View Options (MVOs) in Archicad are a powerful but fairly blunt tool — you can control general display settings (like turning off door swings, changing stair detail levels, etc.), but those controls apply across the entire project without much flexibility.
Meanwhile, Graphic Overrides introduced a rule-based system that allowed users to apply different visual treatments based on element criteria (e.g., walls thicker than X get a red fill). This made model visualization far more intelligent and adaptable.
It would be amazing if MVOs could evolve toward a more rule-based system, similar to Graphic Overrides.
Instead of applying MVO settings globally, you could define rules or filters to apply certain behaviors only to specific types of elements or based on element criteria.
Expanding Model View Options into a rule-based system (similar to Graphic Overrides) would bring Archicad’s display logic into the same modern, flexible framework users already appreciate in visual styles — but applied to model behavior and representation control.
Even a "first step" toward this goal (rule-based MVOs at the element type or classification level) would be a huge leap forward in controlling how the model looks across different stages, disciplines, and outputs.
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