Wishlist

property lists can get really long in element settings. Making those searchable could be helpful.

We need the ability to organise viewpoints with folders - just the same as saved views....

Hi all, I want to post this Feature request for "Expand All" & "Collapse All" functions in the Archicad Properties.

We are always expanding our use of Properties the more we get a handle on building & using Expressions with their related & interlinked Properties.

So the Properties list becomes LOONG and tedious to scroll through. And yes I do use the search to shorten the list, but it is sometimes better to work with a Property in context of it's Properties Group (the only way to get there is scrolling / manually collapsing other groups).

I have frequently been reminded how useful these functions would have been if we had them already.

Wish:  any valid license should be able to run any version of Archicad localized to any country world-wide.   Professional/Professional, EDU/EDU, etc.

It is a historic artifact that Archicad is hard-coded in each global language for which it is available - vs letting the user choose the language interface at will like other software.  It is also a historic pre-global-marketplace artifact that each country specific version has version-specific content delivered by the country's distributor.  None of that is the customer's concern... but were all business decisions by Graphisoft.

This wish is so that global workers in a global economy can use whatever version of Archicad the team with which they are working is using.   If I work with a company in Finland (and speak the language), I should be able to download and run FIN.  If Spain, SPA.  Etc.  And, absolutely every license, cloud or physical, should be able to run INT.

Design Option Combinations should be a column in the Drawing Manager.

I just spent 10 $%#&! minutes going through dozens of tabs and probably 100 clicks to simply make a rail be all one color when shown in the elevation, or any 3D window. This is not how we should be spending our time with this program. I reported this four years ago here. Laszlo Nagy was involved in the discussion as well, so it "should" have made it to R&D.

Please, PLEASE make a single button for the stair, curtain wall and rail tool to turn the "entire" 3D representation of those elements one pen.

Do. This. Now! Fix existing potholes already in road.

We often create properties that are used in the calculations of other properties. These must be linked to the same elements for the calculations to work. Thus, the entries in the list of properties of the relevant tools increase unnecessarily. It would be useful to be able to set the visibility of properties in the relevant directory within the property manager.

With expression-based properties, it is possible to extract and combine parameters (including other properties) to form a string.

For example, I have properties related to timber framing like studs, nogs, treatment, grade, etc.
I have an expression-based property that determines if the wall is of timber construction then combines the above, plus other parameters (composite name etc) to form a note (sentence), if it's concrete, then a different note is formed. This is then used/displayed in a key (Interactive Schedule).

This works really well. However, one limitation is that users, in the key / interactive schedule, can overwrite the expression-generated string with manual text. This appears correct in one instance, however, all the underlying parameters still have the original data/parameters.



While I have several Graphic Overrides that look for these properties with custom values, there's still a risk.

My wish is that somehow there is a way to to lock expression-based properties.

I wish we could hide individual or multiple sides of a fill the same way you can when you're editing a complex profile. This would be preferable to drawing a fill with no outline and then using lines or polylines where needed.

It would be wonderful if there was a way to create custom profiles for door casing.

In the Project Info you have the ability to create new fields, however, you have one option for the data type of the field and it's effectively a string.

It would be good if you could choose what sort of data type it was, eg String, Integer, Option Set.

Under the Site Details of the Project Info we have a field which is titled Liquefaction, the options are "Undetermined, Unlikely, Possible, High, Medium, Low, Very Low".

Ideally this would be an "option set" dropdown list that staff could choose from but at the moment they manually delete text to suit.

Creating a new transmittal set auto-adds all changed layouts.

This is problematic, especially when template-based layouts are involved that might not be relevant.
The auto-inclusion often leads to inaccuracies, requiring us to manually remove all layouts and then add relevant ones.

Some workarounds, like creating a template transmittal with every layout, have unwanted side effects.

Deleting layouts isn't a viable option as they're often needed later.

Creating a transmittal set should not automatically add any layouts, or there should be a user-configurable option to control whether or not this occurs.

[Suggested Tags: Revisions, Revision Management, Changes, Transmittals, Book Settings]

At a minimum Folders NEED to be hierarchical and should display as every folder structure in AC or CAD program

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      1. A Rhino upgrade only costs $500US around every 14-16 months so it should not be a money issue.
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2. Missing options:
   1. Using Folders to control visibility, priority, lock, properties? . Main problem with this is that a layer can only reside within one folder so this has to be implemented in the Layer Combination side.
   2. Click to rename Layers needs to return
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      2. Select All - Unselect All, Lock - Unlock, Hide - Show buttons need to come back.
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If element properties import/export with Excel is going to work in the real world, URLs need to function. We need a Hyperlink property data type.

TIL you can open well-formed URLs in the schedule within Archicad. This is... not very useful in collaboration.

URLs in schedules can be opened in PDFs if the text is complete, which it isn’t, unless you want to see these 200-character things on the layout. Truncated URLs pretend to be links, but of course they are broken, which you find out when you get to the browser. Bad UX.

Excel is dumb about recognizing URL strings automatically, but the user can turn the URL into a link. Just don’t change the display text, or the URL will be lost on import to Archicad. Excel readily imports hyperlinks from other software.

When Archicad re-exports the schedule with the URL strings, they get turned back into plain text in excel. 

Literally every product is selected on the web; this has to be fixed if the Excel round-trip is to be a real workflow.

PS, they have solved this for BIMx: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Visualize-articles/Add-hyperlinks-for-all-3D-elements-in-the-Cus...

It would be great if Project Info (with custom fields) and Location Settings (including the new Survey Point coordinates and Project North) would be available for custom ifc property mapping. 

In Finland, new legislation for applying building permit electronically mandates the use of certain custom property sets and properties in the ifc file to be submitted to the authorities. They include stuff like Site Address, Contact details, World Coordinate values etc. The properties are mostly required in the IfcBuilding entity level, plus a few in the IfcSite. We are supposed to use a precisely defined naming format for the custom ifc property sets and properties, so that they can be automatically processed in the receiving end. 

Since most of these are already present in Project Info and Location, it feels silly that we now only seem to be able to do this by manually adding these properties or via a third-party solution such as BlenderBIM or Simplebim.

Good day Graphisoft Team

I want to post this New Feature Request for setting the 3D opening angle of Doors, Windows & Skylights in "Model View Options" instead of in the Element Settings.

If we need to Publish 3D models to BIMx & Twinmotion (or other render software) with Doors, Windows & Skylights in open position, we have to actually select all Doors, Windows & Skylights and change the in 3D opening angle in the Element Settings, then Publish. Then we have to change it back (or Undo) so that Section & Elevation drawings are as we need them to be. This is not only tedious but causes disruptions, delays & some times errors with drawings in project files of other team members especially when working in Teamwork.

Request / suggestion:

If these Doors, Windows & Skylights settings are controlled in "Model View Options" we can then globally control 3D opening angle (and perhaps also the 2D opening angle) by MVOs linked to Saved Views. This would make it possible to Publish 3D models to BIMx & Twinmotion (or other render software) with Doors, Windows & Skylights in open position but still have them on closed position for Sections & Elevations. Models appear more life like especially when the doors and in some cases Windows & Skylights are in open position.  This will give us more flexible output workflow for different scenarios.