Changing Materials in a custom panel

[Todd Rainsberg]

How can you change the materials of a custom door panel with GDL scripting.The leaf material is grayed out for the custom panels.

[Dominika Bobály]

The surface of the custom door leaf is fixed by default, saved with the surfaces of the element it is created from. That’s why the leaf surfaces are greyed out for custom door leaf in previous versions (it is not locked in AC20, though).
If you set the surfaces of the base element to GENERIC before saving the custom part, the surface of the custom leaf becomes editable theoretically from within the placed door instances: the last material command before the custom component macro call takes effect. Unfortunately, this last material command refers to a frame surface in our current code structure (it is a known issue), but you can work around it inside the DoorLeafPanels macro by adding an extra line to the custom component script parts (around line 11195 in 3D script, material gs_leaf_mat fixes it). Note, this is a workaround with limitations, and works only with one surface (no inner-outer leaf surface option).
In case you have a locked surface parameter still, set the door panel to a style which unlocks the parameter, choose the surface, then change to custom door leaf.

Dominika Bobály
Product Manager
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Thomas Lodge]

Dominika

Is this looking at being fixed? either in a library update or AC 21?

[Dominika Bobály]

The complete solution to this requires developments on ARCHICAD’ side in custom component creation as well, not just in the library parts. Both AC and libpart issues are registered in our database, and will be corrected according to the normal bugfixing workflow.
Library update is not possible (compatibility would be compromised), so this bugfix is scheduled for an upcoming full version only.

Dominika Bobály
Product Manager
GRAPHISOFT SE

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