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Great gas cylinder object, have used for years, but it really needs a Label.
I've always had to manually add a label/note next to it, which is frustrating, especially if moving the object around.

Many of your other objects have labels built in (eg. Gully Trap #1613), which work great, so should be pretty easy for you to add that feature/setting to this object?

EVERY CAD/BIM/3D software has this essential feature - why doesn't ArchiCAD?
There was a discussion in one of the beta tests years ago about enabling this, at least based on favorites (if you change a favorite, all placed "instances" of this favorite will be updated, too. Of course, there should be options to exclude (override) defined elements.

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Feature Request: Custom Profiles for Frames and Casings

One of Archicad’s strengths is the flexibility of its door and window library, which allows for extensive customization. However, while it is already possible to insert custom leaf profiles, there is currently no way to define custom profiles for frames and casings.

Introducing this feature would bring several benefits:

• Full control over frame profiles, allowing for more accurate representation of real-world construction details.
• Custom casing profiles, improving precision in architectural finishes.
• Seamless integration within parametric settings, enhancing both design flexibility and consistency.

The lack of this customization option feels like a limitation, especially considering how powerful the rest of the system already is. Implementing it would be a natural and valuable enhancement, making door and window modeling even more versatile and precise.

Hi everyone again,

I've posted a tread but community suggests me to repost it with a referal at only one wish.

So here i am again, I’ve seen a lot of wishes here—some are totally useful, others maybe less so— I’m wondering : aren’t you tired of modeling plinths with beams or finishes with other walls, just because Graphisoft left wall accessories behind? And if you try to take off surfaces or measure lengths from accessories, it’s absolutely impossible to get the right informations. We supposed to work bim right? Wouldn’t it be great to have a finish tool, like the railing tool, but maybe with advanced features—directly linked to walls and their openings?

A tool like that could be more greatful then other new features that are now implemented.

Lets make Archicad great again!

Victor,

Similar to my "Make Modules Great Again - 4.0: Schedule Modules" post Make Modules Great Again - 4.0: Schedule Modules ,

but as a sub topic: I would like to be able to schedule which modules are placed normally and which are mirrored.

Why?

For us, Archicad users, designers and documenters, a mirrored apartment is the same as the normal one, just "mirrored".

For the builder it is a complete different apartment, because everything in it is flipped.

To overcome this issue, I would still like to model these apartments once, then "document" the normal version once, make a "mirrored copy of that documentation and be done with it. The only thing missing is to be able to easily identify in the drawinhs which unit is normal, which one is mirroreed.

To do this I could use a simple schedule that looks similar to below:

Unit 101 - APT TYPE 01

Unit 102 - APT TYPE 01 Mirrored

The data already exists in the software, it's in HLM Settings -> the little mirrored tickbox, just we can't access it yet.
Please make that data available for Schedules and for Labels!

Also refer to:

Modules: required improvements 

Make Modules Great Again - 1: In Place Module Management 
Make Modules Great Again - 2: Embedded Library Management 

Make Modules Great Again - 3: Attribute Management 

Make Modules Great Again - 4.0: Schedule Modules 

Make Modules Great Again - 5: Modules Source Storey 

Make Modules Great Again - 6: Labels in Mirrored Modules 

Currently the Downlights are very limited. Can the object be adjusted to give it a bit more flexibility such as:

1- Flange vs Flangeless

2- Option to show housing in 3D view and 2D view

3- Ability to control housing dimension based on specification

Thanks!

It would be great if 'Empty Door Opening' could have a property to determine if it acts as a property boundary or not. When placing an Empty Opening (Door) in to an existing wall to create an opening between two existing spaces it would be great if the zone could spill through the opening if it were determined not to be a one Boundary so the two existing spaces become one new space.

I updated the Shoegnome Open Template to use the INT Windows and Doors. For the most part, I'm happy with the switch, but I found a number of features that I will miss from the USA Windows and Doors. My hope is that GRAPHISOFT will add the following items to the INT doors and windows so that the USA objects can eventually be sunset:

• USA can do exterior and/or interior handles (closet sliding doors don’t need handles on interior). INT doors have handles on both sides of leaf or neither.
• USA door leafs can extend behind the door frame. INT door leafs always push in front of the door frame. My bookcase door leaf works beautifully with the USA doors, but with the INT doors, I either need to hide the frame or have the frame as thick as the bookcase door. Both are bad options.
• INT windows can have a board or casing at the interior bottom of the window. It needs to be able to have both. USA windows can have an interior apron and stool.
• INT Overhead Garage Door doesn't have a casing option. Every other garage door (in the INT and USA libraries) do. This should be fixed.
• INT Sliding Folding Multipanel door doesn’t have a threshold option, it should.
• Exterior Sliding Door INT and Exterior Double Sliding Door INT don't move away from the wall when trim is added. And there's no way to set the distance of the leaf from the wall (USA versions move based on trim thickness, even when trim is turned off).
• INT windows and door trim doesn't work with Create Opening from Selection, meaning a window or door won't cut siding or tile that its trim intersects with. I explain the issue and my workaround in these YouTube Videos: https://youtu.be/hrFwsKGFlS8 and https://youtu.be/0I8bqXvLr5E?si=WRIKirt0UqUBW4Zf

Currently, when creating door schedules in Archicad, the door leaf dimensions are correctly reported for single-leaf doors. However, for double-leaf doors, the schedule only displays the total width of both leaves combined, without distinguishing between the individual leaf widths.

This approach can lead to misunderstandings, especially in the context of technical documentation or coordination with manufacturers and contractors. For instance, in asymmetric double doors, it is essential to communicate clearly the dimensions of each leaf (e.g. 900x2315mm + 400mmx2315mm), rather than a single combined width (e.g. 1300x2315mm).

Proposed improvement:

Introduce an option or parameter in door tool that allows users to display and differentiate the width of each individual leaf in a double door configuration. With just a number, Leaf 01 and Leaf 02.

This would significantly improve clarity in project documentation and better reflect the actual door details.

To handle IFC hotlinks effectively in Teamwork today, IFC libraries must first be exported locally, then manually uploaded to BIMcloud, and finally re-linked into the project.
The option being Embedding them and slowing down the file.
This feels unnecessarily fragmented for a cloud-based workflow.

Why can’t IFC libraries be linked directly through BIMcloud?

And why does every new IFC import generate a completely new library instead of updating the existing one?

Rather than saving the libraries to either Embedded or External location, there should be a third option:

Save to BIMcloud (and link automatically).

Archicad should then recognize and reference the library immediately, without the export-store-upload-relink cycle.

A smoother BIMcloud-based IFC workflow would reduce friction, eliminate redundant file handling, and streamline collaboration.

There should be an easy way to remove unused or unneeded objects or elements from the embedded library.

A purge routine. 

In many documentation standards section markers should look like below.

Currently in Archicad it is not possible to achieve this graphic. Please make it available.

Currently only labels and zone stamps can read the properties of their parent objects. Many times it would be useful for any GDL object to see their own properties.

In many cases older objects have parameters for values that would be better expressed as properties, but migrating to using properties is hindered by the fact that an object can't see them. For example, a door's fire rating and similar qualities are more natural to express as a property. They should be accessible from the object to show the user door parameters that are relevant to those qualities.

Most recently I wished for this functionality when converting the properties of a landscaping element standard (MaisemaBIM) into a property set. This information is useless to the corresponding plant objects, and the user would have to set the information twice, again as parameters, to have the object look right.

Along the years many others have asked about this at the GDL forum:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/GDL-How-can-I-get-user-defined-properties/m-p/305160

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/Linking-properties-into-GDL-Parameters/m-p/323998

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/Properties-in-non-label-objects/m-p/265703

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/GDL/Defining-values-of-ArchiCAD-propoerties-through-a-GDL-script...

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Property-Manager-Option-Set-Object/td-p/238980 

The last thread even links to an add-on that lets the user query properties.

(In some cases it would be also useful to write properties, but this is another matter and probably makes less sense in the big picture.)

In 3D we can already request the viewing angle so that billboards can be rotated into the right view towards the user.

We need the same thing for sections and elevations.

What do we need that for:

• billboards that work everywhere
• hiding/showing details depending on the view direction (e.g. think of doorframes which look horrible in sections > 1:50 where the door is not perpendicular to the viewing direction)
• etc.

I'm switching my template over from the USA Doors and Windows to the INT Doors and Windows. I am horrified to discover that the trim on the INT Windows and Doors don't interact with walls they intersection with (such as when you have a second wall wrapping your building for siding or interior tile). I'm going to stick with the INT Windows and Doors because I assume the USA Doors and Windows are never getting updated ever again, but this failure of the library and Archicad will cost me a couple of hours of time per project.

Here's an old post talking about the issue. https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/quot-create-openings-from-selection-quot-not-working/m-... It makes sense that the issue is related to Wallhole not extending beyond the face of the window.

Doors and Windows need to work with Create Opening from Selection.

Users are well versed in editing polyline and polygon based building elements using the tools in various pet palettes. They know how to add and remove points, make lines into arcs, offset single edges or the whole shape. However if a custom object uses polylines or polygons, they can't use these tools and must use whatever the GDL developer has managed to hack together in order to imitate them (for example the Dynamic Polyline objects).

I propose that the standard pet palette tools should somehow be made available to be used to edit custom GDL objects. Maybe there could be a new parameter type "polyline" or "polygon", whose presence in the object's parameter list would automatically trigger the pet palette? Maybe the polyline/polygon parameters could be just dictionaries (like the ones used by the Polyops add-on), and in GDL you could indicate that a parameter is an editable polyline/polygon? Maybe the declaration could include finer settings about what kind of editing can be done: can there be arc segments, holes, multiple polygons. Maybe even allow 3D editing or define the plane of 2D edits.

Polylines and polygons are so ubiquitous in all kinds of design that this would be a natural next step from the regular length/angle editing with HOTSPOTs.

Hi,

BuildingSmart has this "crowdsourced" translation project going on https://buildingsmart.crowdin.com/ifc.

In some countries like Finland there's an overlapping public Sanastot -vocabulary work ongoing as open project too. In some this "voluntary/ open source" work is done by government body, in some by local BuildingSmart.

Once further, the bsDD work enables to load translations of IFC contents as a " (bsDD) library" to software/solution. For example to Archicad+MEP Designer if support for it would be implemented.

This would enormously benefit the everyday use of objects and IFC, with local language, naming conventions and content support.

It would also take burden from GS as Archicad, MEP, localizations would benefit from market contribution too.

So, vote for this one, please!

-Ville

Hi

it would be great to have a much needed shortcut command to place all loaded favorites on floor plan - similar to the existing command Place all objects?

... or as a secondary wish - a Python script to do the operation instead.

It would be of great help when updating older template files with existing favorites - and you want to have visual apperance (MVO for example) over what happens during library migration in between versions.