topic Re: Old Library Parts in Libraries & objects

Old Library Parts

Seiss Wagner — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:37:56 GMT

I have collected a number of old and useful non-Graphisoft library parts from the AC 6.5 & 7 days. Can I safely use these old library objects with AC 9?

Re: Old Library Parts

Stephen Dolbee — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:52:32 GMT

Our older library parts work fine.

Steve

Re: Old Library Parts

TomWaltz — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:04:24 GMT

We have a few dating back to 6.5, that seem to work fine in 9

Re: Old Library Parts

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:47:05 GMT

Our office has recently upgraded to ArchiCAD 9. We are using a symbol from v6.5 and the symbols are reseting. The symbol from v6.5 is a keynote: circle with a text # inside. These are reseting to default (text :#1). This is the only library part that is affected.

We continue to lose this information periodically. Any suggestions to rectify this issue?

Re: Old Library Parts

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:33:58 GMT

I also use a number of library parts created in AC 6.5.
Perhaps superstitiously, I have, at the desktop, duplicated each part,
put the duplicates into a new folder, opened each one in AC 8.1, corrected
any parameter settings that are wrong (line types, fill types, etc.)
and saved.
This updates the parts and gives them the subtype data and obligatory
parameters of a native 8.1 library part.
In AC 9.0, just to be "safe", I go through the same process.
This may be nonsense but it might cause some file updating
that fixes problems with objects created in earlier versions.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin