Find and Select in Archicad 26
Criteria Sets for Find & Select are a powerful, underused feature in Archicad. In this video I discuss how to use Criteria Sets, as well as more basic aspects of Find & Select.
In the video I forgot to mention two buttons in the dialog box: the eyedropper and the marque. If the eyedropper is selected, the eyedropper tool will pick up settings from the eyedropper tool. I always have this on by default, so I didn’t realize until after I recorded the video that it could be turned off. If you select an element then hit the button with the marque on it, the element’s settings will be copied into Find & Select. Very similar to the eyedropper route. I’ve honestly never used that button before.
What did I forget to mention? How do you use Find & Select? Are you inspired to create some Criteria Sets? Do you have another idea for a quick video? Let me know in the comments.
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Mahmoud Qenawi
Thanks Jared I enjoy your videos especially those for underused functionalities and workaround tips, you know I see you can tell us how playing with + & – buttons can be enjoyable in Archicad like you pickup parameters let you select some elements then decrease these elements by excluding ones according to another criteria set or increase elements by another criteria then save the result as a selection set.
Also the two indicators Selected and editable they took me time to know that if 5 elements are selected but only 4 is editable that means there’s 1 locked or hidden ( not sure about hidden but I think so ).
At all I like selecting in Archicad as I like your blog, thx Jared.
Jared Banks
Glad you enjoyed the video. And thanks for pointing out the selected/editable indicators. I should have mentioned that in my video as well!
Brian Lighthart
Keep it up, Jared. F & S is a great auditing tool (“My model is really clean.”).
You mentioned using the marquee as a F&S limiter I n the caption. In the course of modeling, I probably use the marquee (multi- or single-story, inside, outside, etc.) w/F & S more than any other criterion . It isn’t obvious, and is worth some attention. So I gave it some.
Jared Banks
Thanks Brian. I completely agree raising awareness for Find & Select plus the Marquee tool is good! I need that reminder myself.