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Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:41:12 GMT

I've recently switched to Archicad 26 (from 25) was waiting for the kinks to sort out. However, when saving my first BIMx model, I get the following errors (see attached image below)

Using a MacBook Pro 16", M1 Max, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD

Using Archicad 26 (MacTel install so as to save Twinmotion files)

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Benjamin Dani — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:09:09 GMT

Dear Rex,

Thank you for sharing your experience with us!

This issue needs deeper investigation since I cannot pinpoint the cause of the problem with the available information. To handle the case the most effectively, please contact BIMx's technical support at bimx@Graphisoft.com and send the problematic project file in .pla format. Also, describe if you experience this with other projects or not.

Thank you,

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Rex Maximilian — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:46:53 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I was able to resolve it after isolating an offending third party object (a BBQ grille). I reported to tech support and followed their suggestion to isolate the object.

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Norbert Kucsma — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:15:07 GMT

Dear Rex,

Thank you for sharing the solution!

We have investigated this issue and we are happy to let you know that the next update of Archicad 26 (50xx) will fix this problem.

Thank you,

Norbert Kucsma
Technical Support Engineer

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

joelsdg — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:44:31 GMT

Rex,

Thank you for posting this. I just had this issue come up for the first time in years, and I couldn't remember how I fixed it in the past.

Curiously, was the offending BBQ the "Charmglow Stainless Steel Grill BBQ"?, once I deleted it from my model, Publisher worked.

Deleting it was a quick fix, but I don't remember what I did in the past to fix this, can you elaborate?

Joel

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Botonis — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:27:00 GMT

Thanks for the info. When should we expect this update? At least there is one bug that it is confirmed to be fixed............

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Norbert Kucsma — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 08:59:01 GMT

Hi all,

The UP3 of Archicad 26 (50xx) is going to solve this issue and it is planned to be publicly available at the end of March. Note that this release date includes the English, and German-speaking language versions, all other language versions will roll out continuously after that.

The problem was caused by the BBQ object indeed. The polygon structure of this object was faulty and Archicad 26 is more sensitive regarding this than previous versions.

Please either delete this object or hide its layer for a successful publish.

Kind regards,
Norbert Kucsma
Technical Support Engineer

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Botonis — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:39:50 GMT

This is not at all good news. You are announcing an update that will take almost 6 monts after the last one published on 10th of October. There are several serious bugs that affect the performannce and workflow of 26, discussed in the forum and detected prior to the release of any update, and it seems that if you need more than five months to fix them (hope to fix them.....), it is like indirectly accepting that the release was premature.

Instead of just announcing that a BBQ object will be fixed,please officially anounce what exactly will be fixed because at this point I will have to decide whether I will revert back to 25 to continue my projects.

Kind regards,

Botonis

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Rex Maximilian — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:17:11 GMT

HI Joel, I'm not sure I understand your questions on what I did to fix it, other than delete the object. Of course I had to do a mass deletion of objects, test, then undo the deletion once it was confirmed that the BIMx would generate. Then I undid the deletion and had to delete sectors of objects until the model would generate a BIMx again, clueing me in to where the offending object was, then continue narrowing it down to a single object. It too me a solid hour.

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

joelsdg — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:44:24 GMT

Hi Rex, no problem. I didn't realize all you did was delete the object. Somehow I missed that.

I had the same problem years ago and forgot how I fixed it back then and I resumed using that BBQ object without problems.

Anyway, thanks for the help, it seems this object has flaws and I'll just stop using it.

Joel

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Lengai — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 15:55:08 GMT

Hello thanks for your info, how did you find the offending object? thanks

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Rex Maximilian — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:00:49 GMT

The old-fashioned, manual way.

To be safe, do this to a copy of the file.

First I deleted all the objects on a story. Then try to publish, note the results, undo the deletion, then perform that action on the other stories. Once I identified the story with the offending object, I would then delete the objects from a quadrant of the plan. Try to publish and note the results. Undo, then perform that action on the other quadrants. Once identified, I'd narrow down the deletion methods until the object presented itself with successful output after deletion.

Took me over an hour.

Re: Archicad 26 Fails to generate views when Publishing to BIMx

Lengai — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 07:51:55 GMT

Rex hello, thank you for your feedback.👍🏼

I had been working on a similarly manual process by deleting layers at a time... couldnt find the offending item.

Noticing that my not so big (190mb) file was really lagging I converted a couple of Groin Vault morphs (I had inported and converted from Sketchup, which i assumed were heavy objects) into library parts and, voila, BMIX generates. Oddly when I deleted the contents of the layer they were on it didnt work? 🤔