topic project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1 in Installation & update

project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:54:35 GMT

I recently installed AC9 and wanted to continue a project which I started in AC8.1. It appeared to work fine with one exception: The roof of my house showed no elements like rafters, stringers etc. instead, at the anchor points are big black bullets.
At startup of AC9, in the library load window, a message about this missing objects appear and even after trying to load the elements it doesn't change.
BTW, I work on Windows.

KR, Alex

Re: project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Erika Epstein — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:56:29 GMT

what do you mean
"even after trying to load the elements"
Did you also load the 8.1 pla? If not that should do it.

Re: project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Aussie John — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:54:20 GMT

Looks like you are using an old version of a library part. See if there is a newer version of the part. If there is you can transfer the parameters to the new part.
Other wise you might have to try and resave the libary part.

Re: project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:36:01 GMT

Erika wrote:
what do you mean
"even after trying to load the elements"
Did you also load the 8.1 pla? If not that should do it.

Hi Erika,
I wanted to say that I tried to reload the objects using the library manager and I don't have an archive file(*.pna) as I work on an ongoing project.

To Aussie John;
I even suspected that the 8.1 objects didn't work in AC9 and tried to reload the AC9 libraries, even though it is in my understanding not nessesary as they are loaded on startup.

I think I will do the 'common' remedy of PC problems: uninstall and reinstall.

P.S., as student, I'm working on a Student Version of AC but this shouldn't make any difference....

Cheers Alex

Re: project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Aussie John — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:37:06 GMT

a reinstall sounds drastic as It definately seems like a problem with the library part

Re: project in AC9 which has been startet in AC8.1

Djordje — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:53:59 GMT

You should:

1. Open your project in 8.1 (if it is not too late) and save as PNA; then reference that PNA as the library source. This might cause some problems. Or, open the 8.1 library.pna, and extract the library into folders, and load what you need.

2. replace the missing lib parts with the same or similar ones from the 9 library; as you are mentioneing roof structure elements, you probably used the Roof Acessories API; in this case, the most drastic solution would be to re-create everything.