topic Re: Library with duplicate object in Libraries & objects

Library with duplicate object

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:37:11 GMT

Hi,
Every time when i open my archicad file, there will be a pop-up: Library with duplicate object. but it didnt specific which object has duplication with another object.

Anyone know how to solve it?
Thanks.

Re: Library with duplicate object

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:57:19 GMT

Hi,

the info button shows you which elements are duplicated.

Re: Library with duplicate object

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:02:52 GMT

Hi Endre,

Thanks alot, my problem solved.

Re: Library with duplicate object

sarahric — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:41:17 GMT

I'd like to add to this, as my pop up says there are duplicate objects of a linked library with itself.
Also have tried to find duplicate of objects, using the find function, but it only finds 1.

Re: Library with duplicate object

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:44:28 GMT

Check out this page of the ArchiCAD Help where it talks about troubleshooting library issues:

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=01_Configuration.04.65.html

Re: Library with duplicate object

sarahric — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:40:02 GMT

Thanks, I have read this before.
I have no trouble seeing what are the duplicate objects, it is trying to then find the objects within the library.
The only way I know to access the objects within the libraries is to select the object tool and open the setting dialog box.
Within this I can do a search, but if I'm told previously there are duplicate objects, it only shows one of them in the search.
Also in this dialog box I can't delete the duplicate objects anyway.

Re: Library with duplicate object

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:48:11 GMT

Can you show us a screenshot of the Library Report Dialog where it says which the duplicate object is and the info it displays about it.

Re: Library with duplicate object

sarahric — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:26:05 GMT

screen shot attached

Re: Library with duplicate object

David Maudlin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:44:32 GMT

sarahric:

Your screen shot shows you have 2 versions of the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib loaded. Also, you can change the Information pop up from "List of placed Duplicates" to "List of all duplicates" to see a list of the duplicated parts.

Based on your screen shot, the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib is the source of most of the duplicates (there are 2 in your Embedded Library), so I would 1st try eliminating the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib and see if you come up with any missing parts. If so, then one approach is to save an Archive version of the file (which will save all the used library parts, not the entire libraries), open this file and select the option to "Extract elements to a new folder:" (see in the Help files: Configuration > Archive Files) which will create a folder with all of the used parts. You can then remove the duplicates from this folder. If you then add the ArchiCAD 15 Library back, you can again remove its duplicates from this legacy folder, so this folder keeps the legacy parts while the ArchiCAD 15 Library allows you to have the most recent and up to date parts for adding to the project. The legacy folder could be added to your Embedded Library once the duplicates are cleaned up.

David

Re: Library with duplicate object

sarahric — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:24:25 GMT

Thanks,
This is useful. Also have tried embedding placed objects from said library before deleting it.
Although have now ended up with missing attributes, for which I cannot find the material to be able to remove or replace...

Re: Library with duplicate object

David Maudlin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:54:12 GMT

sarahric wrote:
Although have now ended up with missing attributes, for which I cannot find the material to be able to remove or replace...

When saving an Archive file, one of the options is "Include Linked Textures", which adds the texture (bitmap) files of the used Materials. You can save an Archive with this option, open the file as I explained previously, then add those missing textures to the Embedded Library of your working file.

David