Renovation changing composites

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to change the make up of a composite with renovation filters? I am adding on to a house and the exterior finish is brick which now needs to be only sheetrock. The core of the wall does not need to be changed, only the finish of the wall. Is this possible?

[David Maudlin]

jtcatjba:

The Renovation Filter can change all elements to a single Surface, but this is not what you want. Select the Walls, open the Wall Settings > Model pane, click the Outside Face Surface and change its setting to the desired Surface.

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David

[Anonymous]

That will change the surface for the model. I need to change the composite for the floor plan view so that instead of showing brick, airspace, sheathing, stud, gwb, is shows gwb, stud, gwb. It is not a wall for demo so I cant just demo and draw new wall, only change the composite so that it does not show the brick and airspace and only shows GWB.

[Barry Kelly]

I'm not fully conversant with the renovation filter as I don't really use it.
But the problem you have is the original brick, airspace, sheathing, stud, gwb wall is one element so you will need to mark that entire wall as 'demo' and then replace with a new gwb, stud, gwb wall.

Otherwise you will need to split the existing wall into two separate walls side by side which won't help you in the placement of doors and windows as they will belong to only one of the walls - the other will need empty openings placed in it.

Barry.

[David Maudlin]

jtcatjba:

Barry is correct, the Renovation Filter cannot be used on parts of a composite wall (the entire wall has one Reno Status). As he said, you have 2 options:
1. Demo the entire existing wall and place a new wall
2. Create 2 walls side by side (one for the brick to be demolished, the other the stud wall to remain).

Thanks for adding the signature.

David

[Anonymous]

Check out this thread..

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=207924#207924

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick replies. I think ArchiCAD needs to address this issue as it would be helpful for many aspects of the design. That being said, thank you for your help. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

Jeremy