on 2018-07-05 02:51 PM - edited on 2021-11-24 10:46 PM by Emoke Csikos
ARCHICAD allows us to transfer attributes between projects. For that you need to use the Attribute Manager’s Import function. You can import the attributes from .pln and .pla files or .tpl and .xml files, and still .aat file format is supported in order to import attributes from older ARCHICAD FILES.
Let’s see the steps for example on how to import the pen sets from another project.
More detailed information on the Pen Sets in ARCHICAD you can find here.
The Attribute Manager is a very useful tool, but there are some things, that could be improved.
For example, when importing Surfaces from an .xml-file, they come with an associated Fill type. That is just fine as long as the Surface comes with a "new" Fill type that does not exist yet in the file, but when the Surface has associated Fill that already exists in the file, the Attribute Manager does not recognize it and just creates a copy of the Fill.
I know I can go and manually change the Fill type for the newly imported Surfaces and delete the duplicate Fill, but why does it have to be this complicated and why is there an inbuilt source of potential mistakes/mess in the attributes?