topic Re: Work environment/language conversion needed! in Collaboration with other software

Work environment/language conversion needed!

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:13:48 GMT

DESPERATE!
I am collaborating on a project with a Polish architect working in Archicad 7 while I am on version 9. All the drawings now have the Polish names for "layers", materials, etc.
How do I convert back to English????

Re: Work environment/language conversion needed!

David Larrew — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:51:17 GMT

If you have a copy of your original file, and you know that the Layers/Matererials/etc. are just renamed, you could use "Attribute Manager" to overwrite the Polish names with your original file attributes.

Re: Work environment/language conversion needed!

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:26:24 GMT

I don't know how feasible this is because I don't know how attributes of polish AC7 and English AC9 are different, but is worth a try.
Create a new Project in ArchiCAD 9, and merge the polish AC7 file into it.
ArchiCAD refers to attributes by their index number, not by their name, so it might work, although I think you will still have a lot of adjusting left after doing this.

Re: Work environment/language conversion needed!

andrewzarb — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:47:51 GMT

Maybe you should ask him to do this for you?
Maybe name the layers in a dua format?

Крыша-Roof

Babelfish didn't have Polish so I used russian, in case anyone notices.

Re: Work environment/language conversion needed!

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:54:14 GMT

Create a new Project in ArchiCAD 9, and merge the polish AC7 file into it.
ArchiCAD refers to attributes by their index number, not by their name, so it might work, although I think you will still have a lot of adjusting left after doing this.

Many thanks - this seems to be the most painless option and seems to be working out.
(':D')