topic Re: How to open pln file in previous versions? in Project data & BIM

How to open pln file in previous versions?

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:20:57 GMT

I have created a project in Archicad-18 but I want to open it in Archicad 12 How can I do this ....Thank you...

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 21:33:40 GMT

1. Open in ArchiCAD 18 and Save As ArchiCAD 17
2. Open in ArchiCAD 17 and Save As ArchiCAD 16
3. Open in ArchiCAD 16 and Save As ArchiCAD 15
4. Open in ArchiCAD 15 and Save As ArchiCAD 14
5. Open in ArchiCAD 14 and Save As ArchiCAD 13
6. Open in ArchiCAD 13 and Save As ArchiCAD 12
7. Open in ArchiCAD 12

You will have problems with some objects from newest versions.

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 07:35:04 GMT

andro55 wrote:
1. Open in ArchiCAD 18 and Save As ArchiCAD 17
2. Open in ArchiCAD 17 and Save As ArchiCAD 16
3. Open in ArchiCAD 16 and Save As ArchiCAD 15
4. Open in ArchiCAD 15 and Save As ArchiCAD 14
5. Open in ArchiCAD 14 and Save As ArchiCAD 13
6. Open in ArchiCAD 13 and Save As ArchiCAD 12
7. Open in ArchiCAD 12

You will have problems with some objects from newest versions.

But I don't have other versions of Archicad.Isn't there any solution even so?

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:23:32 GMT

You can download the previous versions from your "My Archicad"
Painful to install them all though, or contact your re seller, they may be able to help.

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:31:51 GMT

But even then, I don't think it is worth the effort.
All the elements created with Tools introduced in AC13 or later (new Roofs, Shells, Morphs) will be gone. Also, all GDL objects will be gone, only dots will be everywhere in the Project.

You might be better off trying to export to IFC and see how much of that you can bring into AC12.

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:19:30 GMT

Rogerdodge wrote:
You can download the previous versions from your "My Archicad"
Painful to install them all though, or contact your re seller, they may be able to help.

Thank for all answers... Where is this "My Archicad" I tried to find Archicad 12 to install it to my computer,I made big efford to do this but I couldn't find anywhere.In my archicad page I only see Archicad 18 and 17 I can not find previous versions.I am adding caps Thank you...

Re: How to open pln file in previous versions?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:58:08 GMT

MyArchicad is quite useless as it only shows you the last one or two versions unless you happen to have downloaded the older versions in previous years and then you will still see those as well.

On the Graphisoft website you can download all the add-ons and hotfixes for all the old versions but I can't see a link to the old versions themselves.

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/archive.html

Why not make the older versions of the program easily downloadable?

I guess your best bet will be to contact your local distributor.

Barry.