topic Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm in Libraries & objects

Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm?

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:26:21 GMT

For example this archiCAD 14 gsm

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:28:44 GMT

When open it with ARchiCAD 13 It will show this dialog.

If it possible to fix it?

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:29:14 GMT

Like this

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:06:16 GMT

The only time library parts were backward compatible was from 7 to 6.5. One way to do it is to remake the part in the earlier version by copy/pasting the scripts. You will have to rebuild the parameter list manually though. I seem to recall reading that it is possible to export the part(s) as XML from one version and import that into a prior one but I am not sure about this.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

owen — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:33:41 GMT

Try this:

1. Add the Library Object to the Embedded Library in any AC14 file

2. Save As>ArchiCAD 13 Project

3. Watch the progress meter ... you should see one of the stages is 'Converting Embedded Objects' or something to that effect

4. Open the resulting 13 Project in AC13

5. Extract the object from the Embedded Library to wherever you wish

6. (Hopefully) Voilà .... one AC14 object converted to AC13

This has saved my bacon several times after forgetting which version of AC i was in when editing an object used by 13 files

hth,

owen

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:23:16 GMT

1. Add the Library Object to the Embedded Library in any AC14 file
2. Save As>ArchiCAD 13 Project
3. Watch the progress meter ... you should see one of the stages is 'Converting Embedded Objects' or something to that effect
4. Open the resulting 13 Project in AC13
5. Extract the object from the Embedded Library to wherever you wish
6. (Hopefully) Voilà .... one AC14 object converted to AC13

Thank you very much for this "GOD solution"

It's work!!!

Can you think this? Very surprise.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:30:29 GMT

owen wrote:
This has saved my bacon several times after forgetting which version of AC i was in when editing an object used by 13 files

This is great. Glad to hear there is finally a solution for this. Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:45:03 GMT

Matthew , Thanks to you too.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:09:42 GMT

Great tip! Copied to the Tips forum.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:06:00 GMT

I just got info from GS.
Yes, this is true since AC13 when the embedded library appeared.
So it basically converts the library part into a previous version. It does not do anything with the GDL scripts so if there is a command in them that is specific to the newer version it will give and error in the previous version and will need to be fixed. But this should not happen very often.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:39:52 GMT

Hello.
Could you explain how you "Extract the object from the Embedded Library to wherever you wish" ?
The extract part more specifically.

Roger

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:57:22 GMT

See the picture.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Frank Beister — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:21:07 GMT

But this should not happen very often.

@laszlo
You mean there are not so often improvements in GDL any more? 😉

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:35:19 GMT

F. wrote:
But this should not happen very often.
@laszlo
You mean there are not so often improvements in GDL any more? 😉

No, actually what I meant was that for example if there is a new GDL command in a new version it does not mean that now there will be a lot of library parts using that command. More probable is that most library parts are just updated to the new version or if they are modified that will still be understandable by older versions.
So if a AC14 library part is converted to AC13 then in most cases it will still be understandable by AC13 as it will not contain GDL commands only AC14 understands but AC13 doesn't.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Frank Beister — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:31:24 GMT

Sorry Laszlo, it was an embittered joke.
Fact is, that GDL has not got no major improvements in the last years, that it brought up much better or new objects.

Re: Have any way to convert ArchiCAD14 gsm to ArchiCAD13 gsm

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:27:14 GMT

Oh, yeah, I should have known what you meant.