topic Re: Cabinet objects in 3D in Libraries & objects

Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:42:24 GMT

I just updated to ArchiCAD 9 from 8.1 and some of the cabinet objects have stray hinge lines that show up in 3D, also the knob is not showing up in the right place.

How do I fix this?

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Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Dwight — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:52:11 GMT

are you using ArchiCAD 9 objects?

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Richard Morrison — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:32:59 GMT

The D3 SmartPart cabinet objects had this problem, which has been fixed now, I believe. (At least for the V9 version.) You'll need to get these updated library parts.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:52:21 GMT

the objects are that i am trying to load are ArchiCAD 8.1 objects

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Dwight — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:25:12 GMT

There you go.

As GDL evolves, older elements will not work appropriately, especially as the developers bring higher functions to their objects.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:37:48 GMT

so what can I do about it?

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Dwight — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:48:44 GMT

If these are ArchiCAD -sourced, go in the library and find the new cabinet objects. Go into your project file, select each old cabinet type in turn and then, while it remains selected, open the dialog window and transfer its values to the ArchiCAD 9 element equivalent by changing the element to the new one.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:57:45 GMT

Does anyone know if ArchiCAD has the capability to produce a Printable Inventory of our Libraries, i.e. a catalogue of sorts...?

-kc

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Djordje — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:32:28 GMT

keene3 wrote:
Does anyone know if ArchiCAD has the capability to produce a Printable Inventory of our Libraries, i.e. a catalogue of sorts...?

C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD 9\Graphisoft Documentation\Library Preview.PDF

Also, try Special menu, Place all objects

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:18:44 GMT

Just checked mine and all that is the Documentation folder is the MSA libaries. No PDF of the AC9 library.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:57:53 GMT

Me too.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

David Maudlin — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:52:57 GMT

Millard Brooking wrote:

Just checked mine and all that is the Documentation folder is the MSA libaries. No PDF of the AC9 library

Millard and others:
Look at your ArchiCAD 9 CD, this and other useful pdf files are in the Graphisoft Documentation folder. If you move them to a folder named "Documentation" in the ArchiCAD 9 folder on your hard drive, they will appear under the Help menu in ArchiCAD. They really should be placed here as part of the standard installation process.

HTH

David

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:34:07 GMT

Djordje wrote:
keene3 wrote:
Does anyone know if ArchiCAD has the capability to produce a Printable Inventory of our Libraries, i.e. a catalogue of sorts...?
C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD 9\Graphisoft Documentation\Library Preview.PDF

Also, try Special menu, Place all objects

Djorde,
Does the INT version install this "Library Preview.pdf" automatically into the folder location as you have described? The US version does not...I had to manually copy that pdf as well as a few others that are on the install disc.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Djordje — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:45:23 GMT

Dan wrote:
Djordje,Does the INT version install this "Library Preview.pdf" automatically into the folder location as you have described? The US version does not...I had to manually copy that pdf as well as a few others that are on the install disc.

Yep, it does.

The installation CDs are very well worth exploring, quite a bit of stuff is there ...

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:08:44 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Dan wrote:
Djordje,Does the INT version install this "Library Preview.pdf" automatically into the folder location as you have described? The US version does not...I had to manually copy that pdf as well as a few others that are on the install disc.
Yep, it does.

The installation CDs are very well worth exploring, quite a bit of stuff is there ...

Djorde,
Hmmm...that's strange - I wonder why Graphisoft chose to set the install of the INT version to include these files but not to automatically install them in the US version??? I agree that there's quite a bit of good stuff on the CD's but I don't think we should have to hunt down the CD to find them...If you don't know to look for it, you'll never know its there.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Rod Jurich — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:25:06 GMT

David wrote:
Millard Brooking wrote:
Look at your ArchiCAD 9 CD, this and other useful pdf files are in the Graphisoft Documentation folder. If you move them to a folder named "Documentation" in the ArchiCAD 9 folder on your hard drive, they will appear under the Help menu in ArchiCAD. They really should be placed here as part of the standard installation process.

Thanks David, you are right about it being placed there at installation. I found the folder only by exploring the installation CD and placed them within my Resources folder. I have renaming it "Documents" and moved it to:-Applications/Graphisoft/Archicad 9/Documents, now I can access then from the Help menu.

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:49:23 GMT

Rod,
Thank you for the tip.
I too found the PDFs on the installation disk but was not
sure what to name the folder containing them so they
would appear in the help menu.
So the folder must be named "Documents".
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:00:28 GMT

Well it seems that, on my machine anyway,
the folder must be named "Documentation" as Millard suggested
to appear in the Help menu.
Peter Devlin

Re: Cabinet objects in 3D

Rod Jurich — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:46:53 GMT

Peter wrote:
Well it seems that, on my machine anyway,
the folder must be named "Documentation"....

Apologies Peter my typing skills just fall apart in our current heat wave.