topic Re: Ambiguous Origins in Libraries & objects

Ambiguous Origins

drh64 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:13:35 GMT

What is the procedure to deal with objects that have 'ambiguous origins'.

Thanks,

Re: Ambiguous Origins

Erich — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:09 GMT

What do you mean by "ambiguous origins"?

Re: Ambiguous Origins

drh64 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:33:08 GMT

See attached.
It shows up on the library manager...

Re: Ambiguous Origins

Erich — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:43:02 GMT

I have never seen this before, but I am still on 12 so this may be a feature of the newer embedded library system.

At a glance the objects in question appear to be from AC 12. I would guess that has something to do with this. Perhaps someone working on AC 14 can confirm this. What does your library manager look like?

Re: Ambiguous Origins

Erika Epstein — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:53:48 GMT

From AC14 help:
Objects of Ambiguous Origin
An object in this category has been placed in the project, but duplicates of this object (that is, objects with the same ID as the placed object, though they may be named differently) exist in at least two linked libraries. ArchiCAD randomly uses one or the other source for the object’s placed instances.

To avoid this situation, you should replace the placed instances with one of the duplicate objects from the loaded libraries.
(To do this, you can use Find & Select to locate the placed instances of the ambiguous object. Then choose a library object from the loaded libraries to replace the ambiguous object.)

Re: Ambiguous Origins

ztaskai — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:01:39 GMT

Aaaand what is not said in the help: get rid of the duplicates in the loaded libraries in the first place. You won't have any ambiguous situations after that!

Regs,

Re: Ambiguous Origins

Erika Epstein — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:13:14 GMT

ztaskai wrote:
Aaaand what is not said in the help: get rid of the duplicates in the loaded libraries in the first place. You won't have any ambiguous situations after that!

Regs,

Thanks Zsolt, I hope they add your tip to the AC Help.

Re: Ambiguous Origins

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:40:03 GMT

Curious if there is a way to find out which objects are "placeable duplicated objects" within a loaded library. There is no detail in the information dbx about which objects are duplicates