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Is there a way to exclude certain things from the Renovation Graphic Overrides? Specifically, I want to exclude the site boundaries. I use an object for the site boundaries so they can be displayed on all stories. They need to show on both existing and new plans, but show gr...

Bruce · 2025-09-25

I'm trying to apply an image to a revolved shell without resorting to project-defined attributes. I.e. I need to define inline MATERIALS. I can do this for, e.g. a SPHERE, but a REVOLVEDSHELL doesn't work. ChatGPT says that the DEFINE TEXTURE and DEFINE MATERIAL commands are...

Bruce · 2025-03-21

Is there a way to extract / query the name of the Surface used in a Surface Fill? One can query the fill name or BMAT name of all fill types (Drafting, Cut, Cover, Building Material), but one cannot query the Surface of a Surface type fill. Any clues?

Bruce · 2024-12-16

When walls have their plan display set to Outlines Only, they use a cover fill to ensure their display is opaque. My question is: where is this fill set? I've looked in the wall settings, Work Environment settings, and Project Preference settings. I can find out what this fi...

Bruce · 2024-09-29

Once you have restructured a schedule, is there a way to revert it back to being not restructured? The only way I can see to achieve this is to delete the placed schedule, and put another one in its stead. Operating system used: Windows 11

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To answer my own question: the renovation graphic overrides can be overwritten by a user-created graphic override. For the above, I created a rule to change my site boundaries to the correct pen. It works fine.

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This is definitely an object worth developing. On larger projects you generally have a traffic engineer that tests all this stuff for you, but it's a lot of trouble to get them to test every design iteration you want to look at. Much better to 'sanity check' in house before ...

Bruce · 2026-03-14

For future reference: Register as a developer at the Archicad API site (free). Download the Archicad API Development Kit. Extract the SDK. Navigate to: Examples/DG_Test/RFIX/Images Inside that folder you will find SVG versions of many Archicad tool icons (small and large siz...

Bruce · 2025-09-28

Thanks for that...I should have kept reading the Reference Guide! However, I'm still running into trouble with the texture mapping. I just can't figure out what the secret is. Below are two images of exactly the same texture applied to two different geometries. On the left i...

Bruce · 2025-09-25

This from the GDL Reference Guide: "It’s not part of GDL itself. Archicad will substitute all references to autotext fields in whatever GDL output it finds them. For example, if youwrite in the parameter string of a text2 command, Archicad will nicely replace it with the ac...

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Renovation Graphic Overrides

REVOLVEDSHELL vs DEFINE MATERIAL

Surface name of fill

Wall plan fill for Outlines Only

Turn off schedule restructure

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