Ability to Associate Objects to Other Objects

[Jarrod Phillips]

As the title suggests, Archicad really needs a feature whereby one can associate objects to other objects. For example, hooks on the back of doors and other assemblies of objects which you want to be ‘grouped’ but still need them to behave like seperate objects for the purposes of scheduling, labelling materials etc.

Cheers,

Jarrod

[poco2013]

Why doesn't Classifications and Custom properties serve this purpose?

[Jarrod Phillips]

Hi @poco2013,

I don't believe you can associate elements using custom properties and classifications?

Regards,

Jarrod

[Barry Kelly]

You can't associate the actual objects using properties, but unless you actually need to model the hooks, etc. to show on the documentation, then adding a property to the door will be enough to schedule the hook.

Barry.

[Jarrod Phillips]

Hi @Barry Kelly,

If it's not clear, the main theme of the wish is the ability to associate objects to other objects, for example, creating an 'assembly' of objects that move together if one of the other objects is moved. This would be similar to the way that railings work with stairs or slabs. I admit, the hook example was probably a bad one.

Regards,

Jarrod.

[Barry Kelly]

You asked another question about properties which I was answering.

I temporarily forgot this was in the wishes forum - sorry.

It would be nice to associate, but that could also be a big overhead on the system to keep track of everything.

Just start doing a few Solid Element Operations and you may notice a bit of a slow down (depends how complex they are).

I just thought though, don't forget you can 'Group' elements together.

Unfortunately you can't group anything to a door or window objects, so it won't work for them.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Maybe add the ability to schedule sub-objects? So if one object calls another, you can schedule that object too rather than just the parent? Though this would probably run into the issue of called parameters depending on how deep you want to go.