Use the type manager dropdown to change the type in the scene.

[theoryshaw]

Intuitively it feels like doing something like the following video should change the type in the scene.

That is, when a type is selected, you can use the type manager dropdown to change the type in the scene.

https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/assets/507113/a45808d1-4dec-467d-9b6d-f660559048f0

[Gorgious56]

I am personally not sure about this, since the goal of the type manager as far as I understand is to select and manage types for instanciation, not for managing existing individual instances. I would be fine with a button placed in the manager header to update the selected instance(s) to the type that is selected in the manager though.

I may have expectations based on how it works now though so maybe I'm biased towards keeping it that way. :)

[myoualid]

I'm also biased and got used to how things work. But maybe there's a middle ground:

• The dropdown in the Type Manager (from the top bar) shows the types to be added to the scene.
• BUT, In the Active Tool, the dropdown shows the type of the highlighted object + when you change, it changes the type of all selected objects.

Or vice versa

[theoryshaw]

BUT, In the Active Tool, the dropdown shows the type of the highlighted object + when you change, it changes the type of all selected objects

yes, was thinking something like this.