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Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:33:23 GMT

Well... basically what I said the subject.

Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Probably not expecting an updated add-on for a few months. And to add insult to injury, I only found out "after" I uninstalled the MacTel version.

Anyone else experiencing this with the Apple Silicon to Twinmotion export? ...or did I do something wrong?

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Barry Kelly — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:46:37 GMT

Add-ons need to be compiled for each operating system - Windows & Mac (Intel).

Now there is a third Mac (Apple Silicon) that needs to be compiled as well.

So Epic/Twinmotion will need to compile a new add-on.

Barry.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Romans — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:29:46 GMT

This needs to be addressed to EPIC/Twinmotion support since they provide the Addon.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Djordje — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:15:46 GMT

is it possible to run both versions until this is sorted?

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Lee Hankins — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:29:30 GMT

I had both versions running alongside each other with no issues. They should now be the same build too which will make it even better.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Romans — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:41:57 GMT

It is also advised that the switch to the AC 26 ARM version needs to be carefully evaluated if you rely on 3rd party Addons. These are NOT yet ARM compiled and, therefore, not working from within AC ARM.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:46:10 GMT

I reported it here as a heads up to users who have Twinmotion as part of their critical workflow to evaluate their method of switching to the ARM version of Archicad.

I simply reinstalled the MacTel version and will use that. To keep things clean I uninstalled the ARM version since I saw no need to have both running on my machine, since the MacTel version ran fine enough on my M1 Max chipset.

And, I'm reporting this to Epic/Twinmotion support. I am aware that this is the course to follow which is why I did "not" report it to GS tech support and only mentioned it here in the forum.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:42:54 GMT

Which I have done. I only posted here on the community, not the GS tech support, for a heads up for other Apple Silicon. users.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:43:46 GMT

Yes it is. I just reinstalled the MacTel version. I chose to delete/uninstall the ARM version for now. No need for me to have both running.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:45:11 GMT

Yeah, I just decided to stick with MacTel version only for now until a new add-on is compiled. I may go back, not sure... but the intel version runs fine on my M1 Max laptop.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Sinisa Lazarevic — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:37:24 GMT

I had similar experience and response to expect Apple Silicone version of add on sometime next year. Based on timing of AC 27 release I suggested Epic concentrates on next version instead of running year behind with add on. Let's hope that they listen so that we have lovely fully working ARM based systems in place including Twinmotion itself sometime around June 2023.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

RobertZEU — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:07:12 GMT

Is this issue resolved. I still cannot launch an epic games laucher, nor addon for archicad 27... quite bad, since i just bought M3 Pro

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Sinisa Lazarevic — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 22:34:30 GMT

Robert,

Twinmotion latest release 2024.1.1 with associated Datasmith export tool in AC27 works on my MabookPro M3Pro machine with Sequoia installed.

However, Epic Games also works well but you have to be patient for initial start of Twinmotion. I am forced to start it couple of times then kill one of the Twinmotion sessions. Ideally you can just bypass the Epic Games application and start Twinmotion separately from icon installed on your machine when you start launchpad. Another thing is when you finish you have to force quit Twinmotion in Activity manager. I would only run Epic Games app occasionally to see if any upgrades to Twinmotion are available.

Otherwise seems to work as fast and as reliably as it was and imports previous versions of files fine as far as my projects are concerned.

In summary bit of patience with starting for the first time with Twinmotion taking about 5 minutes to verify and start.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

RobertZEU — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:47:38 GMT

Sinisa, honestly thank you for your fast and thorough response - i will give it another try and be more patient with instalation process.

Have a great day!

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Rex Maximilian — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:35:44 GMT

I highly, highly, highly suggest that you do NOT use the direct link add-on. You should simply save out of the 3D window from ArchiCAD as an FBX file, then import that into Twinmotion. When you make edits to the ArchiCAD model, then resave the FBX out with the same name and replace the one previously saved out. Then in Twinmotion, "refresh" the import.

Using the direct link to launch Twinmotion and bring in edits and such is seriously wrought with problems. You'll also have to wait months for the next version of ArchiCAD to be compatible when a new one is released.

Seriously, save out FBX and use that exclusively. Just say no to the plug-in... I promise you'll be happier.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

RobertZEU — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:30:10 GMT

Thank you for your insight and tips!

Yet, trying to work it out i spend the whole sunday trying to succesfuly instal launcer or twinmotion instalation and it just repetitively stayed in update loophole... i check all the possible forums and tried to follow instructions, yet nothing seems to work... dont know what to do - waiting for my last hope to receive support from my local reseler of AC.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Sinisa Lazarevic — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:23:45 GMT

That seems to be bit of a problem now. You could try to also put your issue up on EpicGames support board. One last question and just out of the left field. Did you do licence change for Twinmotion from what was originally given to us via ArchiCAD but now became free licence for practices under $1 million US turnover. Oddity of your case is that you can't even install Epic Games launcher and that is unusual in itself. 16.12.1 is current Epic Games Launcher but that was updated throughout the year from original 15.17.1 and that is the only one available to start with.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/download. Relatively recently I did the same downloaded, signed in, updated the launcher then it offered to install Twinmotion. Other issue perhaps might be that Rosetta didn't install correctly for conversion.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

RobertZEU — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:55:45 GMT

yes - its an annoying issue - my local reseller told me, that it might be the issue with sequoia update - yet you are using it properly...

Don't know, what you mean by licence change - we just entered the code we got by buying AC and from then it worked fine on computer at the office (windows)

could it be an issue, my second is in iOS?

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

Sinisa Lazarevic — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:32:07 GMT

Tomorrow morning Australian time (12 hours from this posting) I am going to try and install on Sequioa M1 spare machine Epic Games launcher and Twinmotion. If it doesn’t succeed, you will have to raise this with Epic Games support.

Re: Twinmotion Datasmith Exporter not working for Archicad 26 Apple Silicon

RobertZEU — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:38:20 GMT

Ah - please dont bother to waste your time for solving this... i will find a way to make it work - maybe downgrade to 17 iOS or smt else...

Again, i appreciate your willingness to help - iif the occasion occurs, i will buy you a beer!

Have a great day!