topic Re: Case sensitivity in translators/exporters in Collaboration with other software

Case sensitivity in translators/exporters

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:49:20 GMT

The DWG translators always write out DWG files with lower case filename extensions (.dwg), but ArchiCAD always references them with uppercase filenames (FILE.DWG). This becomes a problem when using a case-sensitive file server (such as Netatalk on ZFS).

I know this is not actually adhering to the AC system requirements, but has anyone found a way to have translators/exporters always export filenames in upper case?

Re: Case sensitivity in translators/exporters

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:32:00 GMT

I think your best bet might be to look for and find a utility program that can batch-convert file names in a folder to upper case.
Then you save the files from ArchiCAD, run the batch convert and done.
I don't know any such particular program but I cannot imagine there is no such program somewhere.

Re: Case sensitivity in translators/exporters

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:53:23 GMT

On Mac there is Name Mangler

http://manytricks.com/namemangler/

and there are utilities that watch folders and perform custom actions so that you could automate the changes.

Re: Case sensitivity in translators/exporters

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:29:17 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately we cannot just uppercase our filenames since we also have to upload these files to external project banks and they are actually case-sensitive.

I will have to create a new ZFS volume with casesensitivity=mixed. This will avoid conflicts with existing files that have different cases while providing compatibility for AC when it asks for an existing file with a different case.

I noticed that AC 18 doesn't mention case-insensitivity in system requirements. Can someone confirm this?