Apply archit. component properties

Task area Change + Components + Interior Finish

You can use this tool to transfer properties of architectural components to other components of the same type. You can also use this tool to modify element-specific properties of architectural elements (analogous to creation method). When, for example, you click a wall, the system displays a dialog box for defining wall parameters. The properties can be transferred only to other walls.

In conjunction with the possibilities afforded by the component axis, you can thus simultaneously convert several single-layer walls to multilayer walls or change the thickness of walls, upstands or downstand and upstand beams – in this case the component axis serves as a reference line.

Tip: When you want to modify a single element only, you can also use Properties on the shortcut menu (analogous to creation method).

Note: If you want to modify several walls in one go and these walls contain corner windows, the program deletes these windows after displaying a message. But if you modify the walls one after the other or use Properties on the shortcut menu of the wall, the program retains the corner windows.

To transfer properties of architectural components to other architectural elements of the same type

• You can use this tool with the following architectural elements:
  walls; upstands; downstand beams, upstand beams; doors; windows; columns; recesses, openings in slabs, plates; niches, recesses, slits, openings; joints; polygonal niches, recesses, slits, openings; lintels/headers, roller blind housings; rabbets, flush piers; slabs and roof covering.

1. Click Apply Archit. Component Properties (How).
   

   Activate Apply Archit. Component Properties in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Change task area
   • Actionbar:Role Architecture Task Elements Task area Components

   • Menu bar: Change Architecture Basic: Walls, Openings, Components
     Special: Walls, Openings, Components

   • Palette: Tools Change area in the following module(s):

   Basic: Walls, Openings, Components

   Special: Walls, Openings, Components

2. Click the element whose properties you want to match.

   You can see the dialog box of the tool you used to create the element. The parameters of the element clicked are entered in the dialog box.

3. Define the parameters and click OK to confirm your entries.
   

   Parameters of walls, upstands

   Parameters of other architectural elements

4. Define what the program is to do with the attributes of the components:
   • The Replace attributes option deletes all attributes of the destination object, replacing them with the new attributes. Thus, you can quickly and easily turn a brick wall into a concrete wall, for example.
   • The Add attributes option overwrites the attribute values of the destination object with the new values, adding new attributes to the set of attributes. Thus, you can quickly and easily transfer attributes (for example, the brick type or strength grade) of a brick wall to another brick wall.
5. Select the elements to which you want to apply the new parameters.
   

   • To select a single element, click it.
   • To select elements in a selection rectangle, hold down the left mouse button and open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select.
   • Some tools allow you to select all elements in the current document by clicking All in the input options or pressing CTRL+A.

   To get detailed information on all selection options provided by Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

   When selecting elements, you can use filters, which allow you to filter by element type or property. For more information, see Using filters.

   Tip: The architecture filter is automatically on for the selected element type. Consequently, a selection rectangle you open finds and selects all the elements of this type.

   Note: If you want, you can now change the parameters of the selected element again on the Apply Archit. Component Properties Context toolbar. To do this, you have several options.

   

   • Click Properties to set the parameters in a dialog box.
   • Click Match properties to copy the settings from an existing element.
   • Click Load favorite to select saved parameter combinations.
6. To start, click Apply or right-click in the workspace. Click Close or select the Esc key to close the tool without doing anything.