3.2.6 How to quickly spot anomalies or problems in selected elements

The text style of traits listed in the Metadata palette provides important feedback about the their status.

For example:

• Blue indicates that the trait is not common to the selected elements, which is useful for spotting traits that are supposed to be uniform. ARCHICAD’s Find & Select palette is useful in conjunction with this feature, first finding elements that should be identical and then checking the Metadata palette for inconsistencies.
• A bold face is used wherever a property has multiple values across the selected elements. The values can be viewed by clicking the disclosure triangle.

When an anomalous trait or property value is spotted, the contributing elements can be isolated by selecting the traits/values in the list and clicking the filter by traits button. An example using properties can be seen in section 3.3.8.