topic Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library in Libraries & objects

!Restored: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:17:50 GMT

I am looking for a Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library for AC9.
Does it exist somewhere? Thanks...

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:50:47 GMT

Does this silence mean that everybody does there own library? I will just assume it does.
I think this is the only major weakness i noticed so far with AC. The library sources are quite poor. (Correct me if I am wrong)

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Djordje — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:22:57 GMT

They are probably waiting for you to find the Electrical symbols in the standard library ...

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:36:05 GMT

Djordje wrote:
They are probably waiting for you to find the Electrical symbols in the standard library ...

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Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:12:22 GMT

I am sorry but i cannot find it. I have looked everywhere.
Thanks for the help though.

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:09:05 GMT

patricprz wrote:
I am sorry but i cannot find it. I have looked everywhere.
Thanks for the help though.

Why not take advantage of the new (in 9.0) Find Library Part capability?

In the Object Default Settings dialogue box click on the little arrow to the right of where it says "Folder View" and choose "Find library parts". Type in the name of a typical part (or part of a name) and click the Find button.

Once you have placed a part in the drawing if you select the part and open the object settings you will see where all the electrical symbols are.

Woody

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:22:44 GMT

Woodster

I have done that already. I have searched every corner of my PC and there is nothing. I went through everything in my library containing the letter "E" and I promise you i do not own or have ever owned a symbol library. (your honor)

I think my library is incomplete - i also dont have the redline cloud that is shown in the helpfile. Where can i get the Standard library?

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:51:09 GMT

The only other thing that I can think of would be if you went through the training guide and you have that library, which is very limited, loaded instead of the "Object Library 9.pla" loaded. Have you checked in the Library Manager?

Woody

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:14:02 GMT

Woodster you are a genius! Thank you.
The world needs more people like you! (The White House does def.)

I have been using the TG library alll along. The problem is that now i have hundreds of duplicates in the library load dialog. what do you think would be the best way of cleaning up a file with missing and duplicate library files?

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:21:08 GMT

The problem is that now i have hundreds of duplicates in the library load dialog. what do you think would be the best way of cleaning up a file with missing and duplicate library files?

Only load the archicad 9 library and not the TG library and this should get rid of your duplicates (in the library manager click on the TG library and chose remove). If the TG library has parts that are not in the archicad 9 library that you have place in you model you will need to take those parts out of the TG library folder and load them as well.

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:40:06 GMT

After playing around with this you have 2 choices:

If you haven't done too much work in the project and only get a few "Missing" library parts when loading only the 9.0 library I would replace the missing parts with 9.0 parts and chalk the whole thing up to experience. BTW, just worry about the missing objects, not textures.

Unfortunately, the parts in the TG library have a "tg" appended to their name so you will have missing parts. If there are too many of them, follow Mike's advice and sort out the missing parts, creating a library that contains only those parts and their appropriate macros.

Probably, the first alternative will take less time overall unless you are really far along in the project.

When you start your next project, make sure that only the 9.0 library is loaded.

Woody

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:49:46 GMT

I learned my lesson. Thank you very much for your help.

Woodster VS Djordje you are leading 2:0

(I think we should make this forum more competitive )

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:47:29 GMT

A shortcut for sorting the used library parts would be to create an archive library without selecting the "Save all parts..." option. This would create a PLA file with only the used parts, From there, you could load that library along with the 9 library, limiting the duplicates but not losing any placed objects.

(What do ya think, 1/10th of a point for that one?)

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Djordje — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:59:07 GMT

patricprz wrote:
(I think we should make this forum more competitive )

Mmmm ... 😉

Another 2000 posts and you might be near ... 😉 if competition is what you are after.

Maybe it will also be a good idea to create a template for all of your new files?

Re: Electrical Installation Graphic Symbol Library

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:42:33 GMT

What kinda template? Could you give me an example?