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Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Tibor Szolnoki — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:33:59 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

Graphisoft has uploaded the "Construction Equipment" and the "Garden Works" libraries on GDLCentral website. The "Building Textures" and the "Street and Traffic" libraries will also be available soon for free download.

The original version of these libraries were released as part of the "Graphisoft Collection" series for ArchiCAD 5.0 and 6.5 versions. Now we have updated them for 8.1 to provide full compatibility with the latest ArchiCAD version. The following new features were introduced in the library parts:

- Web conform object names
- Graphisoft standard parameter names
- Parameters organized into hierarchy
- Correct subtype set for each object

Note: Since all the objects were renamed the updated library is not compatible with the original Graphisoft Collection library. The new version is made for ArchiCAD 8.1 and later releases.

To download the libraries please visit http://www.gdlcentral.com

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:45:59 GMT

I would say that because the names are changed that the new library IS compatible with the old one.

It can be used without fear of altering existing uses of the old library, and it can be loaded along with the previous version in older projects without generating duplicate parts problems.

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:47:56 GMT

Tibor,

Could you post here when the other libraries are released?

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Petros Ioannou — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:29:44 GMT

Its a good thing that someone can download full libraries in a single zip/hqx file.
I wish the same for all the other libraries in GDL central because downloading one object at a time with gdl explorer takes a lot of time.

Petros

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 04:27:39 GMT

Petros wrote:
Its a good thing that someone can download full libraries in a single zip/hqx file.
I wish the same for all the other libraries in GDL central because downloading one object at a time with gdl explorer takes a lot of time.

I agree - convenient, and some very good content in there.

Since it is all free anyway, perhaps GS could just create a "GDLCentral Goodies" folder on the next distribution CD and put the entire content of GDLCentral there for everyone to access easily. I think it would fit?

Karl

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Tibor Szolnoki — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:26:17 GMT

Let me answer your questions one by one:

Could you post here when the other libraries are released?
_________________
Thanks,
Jay Rennemeyer

I'll make an announcement in this topic when the libraries are available (hopefully this month)

Its a good thing that someone can download full libraries in a single zip/hqx file.
I wish the same for all the other libraries in GDL central because downloading one object at a time with gdl explorer takes a lot of time.

Petros

I agree. We will do it for all the libraries on GDLCentral.

Since it is all free anyway, perhaps GS could just create a "GDLCentral Goodies" folder on the next distribution CD and put the entire content of GDLCentral there for everyone to access easily. I think it would fit?

Karl

Unfortunately there is no free space left on the ArchiCAD CD. Maybe when we will ship AC on a DVD...

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:54:03 GMT

Hi,
Is there explorer of gdl's available on mac?
How does one find and down load these GDL's
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:26:00 GMT

just go to the site and download, there are no problems with Safari

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Ben Odonnell — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 21:00:33 GMT

ArchiCAD on a DVD! Sounds great to me

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:08:13 GMT

ArchiCAD on a DVD! Sounds great to me

ArchiCAD on DVD with the all the goodies such as GDL Central librarys, etc would be great. Since Archicad V7 anniversary edition here in australia archicad has taken the first step by packaging in a DVD case. So the next step is the DVD itself.

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Tibor Szolnoki — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:57:43 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

We have uploaded the Building Textures Library on the GDLCentral website for free download.

With this collection of more than 2000 textures and alpha channel picture objects, you can create photorealistic images with ArchiCAD or other rendering applications. The pictures are saved in TIFF and JPG formats. A PDF catalogue is also included to help you browsing in the library.

The "Street and Traffic" GDL library will be also available soon on GDLCentral.

To download the libraries please visit http://www.gdlcentral.com

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:58:02 GMT

Tibor wrote:
We have uploaded the Building Textures Library on the GDLCentral website for free download. To download the libraries

Are these the same as the 20th Anniversary textures, Tibor? (I.e., is there anything new for someone who has the 20th Anniversary CD?)

I just used several of the 20th Anniv images in Piranesi for a quick client image ... vases of flowers, paintings, rugs, etc. Very handy. As I mentioned in an old post, the mouldings in this library can be painted on with Piranesi as well - much easier than trying to get them into the model or onto an image any other way.

Karl

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:53:35 GMT

Szia Tibor,

Thanks a lot for the release, but the folder structure at the GDL central is different than the one shown at the PDF file. The moulding folder contains the panel and the panel folder is missing.
Best regards
Youssef (Juszef)

Tibor wrote:
Dear Archi-Talkers,

We have uploaded the Building Textures Library on the GDLCentral website for free download.

With this collection of more than 2000 textures and alpha channel picture objects, you can create photorealistic images with ArchiCAD or other rendering applications. The pictures are saved in TIFF and JPG formats. A PDF catalogue is also included to help you browsing in the library.

The "Street and Traffic" GDL library will be also available soon on GDLCentral.

To download the libraries please visit http://www.gdlcentral.com

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Tibor Szolnoki — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:08:36 GMT

Are these the same as the 20th Anniversary textures, Tibor? (I.e., is there anything new for someone who has the 20th Anniversary CD?)

Karl

Yes, Karl. The uploaded texture library is the same as the one on the 20th Anniversary CD. No changes have been made.

The moulding folder contains the panel and the panel folder is missing.

Youssef (Juszef)

Thank you for the bug report, Youssef. I've corrected this problem on GDLCentral.

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:10:38 GMT

Just visited GDL Central.
I clould not find the download link for Objects TIFF. The only one active was Pictures JPEG.
How can I get the tiffs with the alpha chanels? It sounds really nice!

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Tibor Szolnoki — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:56:53 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

We have uploaded the Street & Traffic Library on the GDLCentral website for free download.

This GDL library allows you to create detailed images of streetscapes, urban squares or traffic junctions. With over 200 library parts - vehicles, roadsigns, barriers, phone booths, playground equipment and much more. The library is updated for ArchiCAD 8.1 version.

To download the objects please visit http://www.gdlcentral.com

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:35:26 GMT

How can i download these librarys from the GDLCentral site

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:04:22 GMT

I could not get any of the street and traffic objects to display on gdl central. Any one else having problems or is it just me?

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Dwight — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:41:22 GMT

Scroll to the bottom of the page and get the whole thing at once

Re: Graphisoft Collection Libraries on GDLCentral

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:26:00 GMT

Tibor wrote:
To download the libraries please visit http://www.gdlcentral.com

None of the libraries listed on that page are clickable to download, Tibor, and I can't find anywhere else on the site to download them. They are not listed on the downloads page. Could you please provide functional links?

Thanks.

Wendy