topic Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download in Modeling

ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Akos Pfemeter — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:10:08 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

It is time to go to the Help menu of ArchiCAD 9 and click on the command 'Check for updates...' again since we uploaded the second hotfix patch. This patch can be applied to all previous versions of ArchiCAD 9. For more info please click on the URL below...

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:22:04 GMT

GS site looks like it is down.
Can't access it using either Safari or Firefox.

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Akos Pfemeter — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:34:05 GMT

The site is running (checked in IE). It must be some browser specific problem. We will further investigate. Try IE for the time being...

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:43:51 GMT

Camino also doesn't work.

Safari's error message:

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/” because it could not load any data from this location.

Explorer for Mac does not load it also.
error message

The attempt to load failed

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Akos Pfemeter — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:07:24 GMT

I suppose there is some problem with the direct link from AC-Talk on the Mac. Please try and go to the main page of Graphisoft and navigate manually to the support page of ArchiCAD. You will find the news about the patch there...

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Brad Elliott — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:10:41 GMT

It's working fine from Safari on my Mac. Can't imagine what the problem could be.

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:49:22 GMT

After running the Archicad hot-fix2 update (build 2018) my Plotmaker no longer starts up, giving me the message:

APPLICATION LAUNCH FAILURE
The application "PlotMaker" could not be launched because of a shared
library error: "`<PlotMaker><PlotMaker><VBAttributesLib>
<DisposeLayerSet__Q26VBAttr8LayerSetFPQ26VBAttr8LayerSet>"

I've tried shutting down the computer many times, repairing permissions, running optimization & maintenance scripts all to no avail.

I guess my next step is to uninstall & reinstall Archicad though Archicad itself works just fine. I exported my work environment from Archicad in case something bad happened with the update though i failed to export my work environment from Plotmaker.

Rob F
"Sucks" is the word of the day.

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:57:57 GMT

R wrote:
After running the Archicad hot-fix2 update (build 2018) my Plotmaker no longer starts up, giving me the message:

APPLICATION LAUNCH FAILURE
The application "PlotMaker" could not be launched because of a shared
library error: "`<PlotMaker><PlotMaker><VBAttributesLib>
<DisposeLayerSet__Q26VBAttr8LayerSetFPQ26VBAttr8LayerSet>"

I've tried shutting down the computer many times, repairing permissions, running optimization & maintenance scripts all to no avail.

I guess my next step is to uninstall & reinstall Archicad though Archicad itself works just fine. I exported my work environment from Archicad in case something bad happened with the update though i failed to export my work environment from Plotmaker.

Rob F
"Sucks" is the word of the day.

I think I figured it out. My Plotmaker in the applications folder was renamed Plotmaker 9 which the updater probably didn't update and that caused the problem. Next to the "Plotmaker 9" application was "Plotmaker" which launched just fine and appears to have my preferences & work environment. The next thing i guess is to get my Plotmaker files to use the "Plotmaker" that works by default instead of pointing to the non-functioning "Plotmaker 9".

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:39:22 GMT

It's working fine from Safari on my Mac. Can't imagine what the problem could be

I am still unable to access GS. The strange thing is that it is the only site that is giving me problems.

Brad are you running 10.3.9?

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:28:02 GMT

My XP Pro and Mac machines accepted the update to 2018 without a hitch.

Updating a friend's XP Home machine produced something weird. When PlotMaker starts up Background ArchiCAD to update drawings, the BG ArchiCAD is not invisible ... is pops up on the screen with visible windows!

Anybody else see this or know how to make BG AC invisible again?

Thanks,
Karl

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Greg Kmethy — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:16:04 GMT

Anybody else see this or know how to make BG AC invisible again?

Some desktop manager tools (sometimes they come with the video card pack or the computer manufacturer's drivers) have an option for forcing all dialogs to the middle of the screen. These tools can reveal BGArchiCAD.

Greg

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:01:48 GMT

Thanks, Greg ... I'll check to see if that is the issue the next time I'm at my friend's office.... (But, since this behavior did not exist for build 1965, I suspect something else is going on...)

Regards,
Karl

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:02:06 GMT

I was update my AC9 to 2018 but some problems from previous version of Hotfix is still active.
1. Problem with Meander Program - after previous version of Hotfix this program is unnecessary.
2. Graphisoft Shell Extension - is still unnecessary from 1st version of AC9 (1920)
3. Problem with animation, when we use LW engine, object with alpha chunnel texture (eg. tree) and when the option "rebuild model for each frame - in polish "Przebuduj model dla każdej klatki" is ON.
Maybe somebody from Graphisoft can get me reply for these problems.

At last time I was discover some others bug, like "blank" render. This problem probably is related with graphic card driver and AC render engine, like alpha channel (with ATI graphic card we get it, with Nivida not!)
Best Regards
Pawel

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:41:45 GMT

So...should I apply this patch or not? It appears that the Mac version is the only one with severe problems, but I don't have time for the pain if it fails on my PC.

Re: ArchiCAD 9 hotfix-2 is available for download

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:22:08 GMT

I had the Shared Library Error when I first launched PM after the update. It is from not having a copy named "PlotMaker" in the ArchiCAD folder at the time of the update (I usually rename AC and PM to include their version numbers, since I usually have to keep multiple versions around).

Unfortunately the updater makes no warning that it can't find PlotMaker. It just skips that part of the update. It then refuses to run again (once PM has been renamed) since AC is already updated. I even tried copying in an older version of AC, but the updater still refused to run. Fortunately there was a successfully updated copy of PM on another machine which I just copied to my computers.

It seems that the installer should also look for PlotMaker and warn the user if it is not found, or that it would offer to update copies of the applications whose names are altered. It is very bad when an automatic process does something wrong (or fails to do something right), fails to warn the user, and then provides no easy and obvious solution.