- Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:38 pm
#268283
A lots of offices are making their own optimized pen sets to better suit their needs and habits.
This often leads to their pen sets having a completely different structure than the original ArchiCAD pen sets.
The big problem with this is that every GDL objects form the library has been coded with specific pen numbers corresponding to the ArchiCAD pen sets structure. So if you change this structure, these objects will not appropriately use your customized pen sets. You have to manually edit every object. You can of course use the favorites to ease this process, but there is, I think, another way of dealing with this issue that would greatly improve the customization capability of ArchiCAD :
Instead of using pen numbers in the GDL script of objects, the idea would be to use global parameters referencing each particular use (e.g. : General - Drafting, Objects - General, Annotation - Markers, …).
These global parameters would be accessible in a new menu (probably in the elements attributs menu) that would let the user customize the pen attributed to each one of them. This would be in a way similar as the current building materials menu that lets you customize the pen of every material.
This menu should of course follow the new standard organisation of ArchiCAD menus letting you restore defaults settings, save, export or import.
I think this would be a great improvement for everyone.
Thanks for your attention
This often leads to their pen sets having a completely different structure than the original ArchiCAD pen sets.
The big problem with this is that every GDL objects form the library has been coded with specific pen numbers corresponding to the ArchiCAD pen sets structure. So if you change this structure, these objects will not appropriately use your customized pen sets. You have to manually edit every object. You can of course use the favorites to ease this process, but there is, I think, another way of dealing with this issue that would greatly improve the customization capability of ArchiCAD :
Instead of using pen numbers in the GDL script of objects, the idea would be to use global parameters referencing each particular use (e.g. : General - Drafting, Objects - General, Annotation - Markers, …).
These global parameters would be accessible in a new menu (probably in the elements attributs menu) that would let the user customize the pen attributed to each one of them. This would be in a way similar as the current building materials menu that lets you customize the pen of every material.
This menu should of course follow the new standard organisation of ArchiCAD menus letting you restore defaults settings, save, export or import.
I think this would be a great improvement for everyone.
Thanks for your attention