topic Re: Details from an invalid PLC in Installation & update

Details from an invalid PLC

TomWaltz — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:16:13 GMT

Last week, we had a user open a PLC file that was not valid. (She had changed her workspace, and the ID was not longer the same).

In the invalid PLC, she created nearly 2 dozen new details, and worked on them.

Is there any way to bring in the details as a group, instead of copy/pasting them in one by one?

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

__archiben — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:07:17 GMT

can you save both as PLNs and merge the invalid file into what was the PLP? bit dicey . . .

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Re: Details from an invalid PLC

TomWaltz — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:18:36 GMT

That would work for the plan/model changes, but "Merge" does not import detail windows or the 2D content drawn into section windows 😞

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

Djordje — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:51:41 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
That would work for the plan/model changes, but "Merge" does not import detail windows or the 2D content drawn into section windows 😞

Forward merge does ...

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

TomWaltz — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:58:38 GMT

"Forward merge?"

Can you elaborate on that? I don't think I have heard of that one.

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

Djordje — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:36:15 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
"Forward merge?"

Can you elaborate on that? I don't think I have heard of that one.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3791

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=973

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

TomWaltz — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:03:48 GMT

This sounds like an interesting procedure, but how does it actually copy details from one file to another? How would it manager to re-vailidate a PLC, or copy details from the invalidated one to a valid one?

It sounds more like a method for cleaning up corruption in a problem file.

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 21:30:47 GMT

Tom,

It sounds like the easiest thing would be to publish the details as modules, and then merge them into to main file.

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

Aussie John — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:30:25 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Tom,

It sounds like the easiest thing would be to publish the details as modules, and then merge them into to main file.

I agree. The trick is to catch the generating section and stop it before it can build. Then you can select all to pick up the added bits of information.

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

TomWaltz — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:22:45 GMT

It seems like the publishing, merging, unlinking, and replacing all the detail markers is still a lot of work.

I've long been pushing for the ability to import details from one file to another, and I think this is the first error-correcting method I have found for it. I always thought of it as a way to re-use data from previous projects.

Re: Details from an invalid PLC

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:37:23 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
It seems like the publishing, merging, unlinking, and replacing all the detail markers is still a lot of work.

I've long been pushing for the ability to import details from one file to another, and I think this is the first error-correcting method I have found for it. I always thought of it as a way to re-use data from previous projects.

I don't see why the unlinking and replacement are necessary. You can set the layers of the views in the invalid draft to carry just the data you need (I assume the details are still linked to the source view or this would be no issue at all) then you can delete the old data and merge the new. I'm not sure this is that much less work than the copy/paste approach though.

I agree that we need better ways to manage, import, export catalog and reuse details (and other stuff). Lets hope this improves in the next version.