Assigning materials or attributes to several elements or changing them

Imagine the following situations: you want to change the top layer of the floor from carpet to parquet for a number of rooms with finishing surfaces.

Or you want to assign the underfloor heating attribute to the screed (the first layer of the floor) in several rooms so that these rooms can be analyzed accordingly.

To avoid the time-consuming process of clicking each room separately, you can use the Assign Attributes to Elements tool (Object Manager module) in conjunction with the Architecture Filter.

To change materials or attributes of finishing surfaces assigned to several rooms

1. Click Assign Attributes to Elements (How).
   

   Activate Assign Attributes to Elements in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Modify Bonus Tools Object Manager

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

   Object Manager

2. Click Properties.
3. Specify the material.
   Or:
   Click Assign new attribute and select the required attribute.

   

4. Clear the check boxes of all the other attributes and click OK.
5. Click Architecture Filter and then Expand > >.
6. Enter the filter criterion and click OK.

   To change the top (third) layer of the floor from carpet to parquet, enter the following filter criterion:

   

   To add the "underfloor heating" attribute to the first layer of the floor, enter the following filter criterion:
   Object=Floor&Layer_number=1

7. Select the required rooms and click Apply to confirm. You can also confirm by clicking the right mouse button.