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anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:21:15 GMT

I was wondering if anyone have got there upgrade yet

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:03:06 GMT

martin wrote:
I was wondering if anyone have got there upgrade yet

Just received an email from my vendor (out of Oklahoma) about 10 minute ago stating,"I just wanted everyone to know that the warehouse started shipping ArchiCAD 12 yesterday.
They were able to get out just about 400 shipments yesterday.
We expect shipping to be done within the next 3 to 4 days."

So at least here in Mid America it looks like next week.

Dave

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Chazz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:05 GMT

There's some OT discussion of it here:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=23284&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=30

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:04:47 GMT

The UPS driver just dropped mine off.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Chazz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:32:10 GMT

A double lottery winner: a name up at the beginning of the alphabet and an east coast address.

How was your OOBE? (if you don't mind me asking...)

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:30:05 GMT

The package is very nice-looking, but so far a sad day in Mudville. There seems to be a problem with the PPC Mac installer. Awaiting further instructions from Graphisoft.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:41:39 GMT

Michael wrote:
The package is very nice-looking, but so far a sad day in Mudville. There seems to be a problem with the PPC Mac installer. Awaiting further instructions from Graphisoft.

Works OK for me on my old dual G4. (Astounding how slow it is compared to my Mac Pro!) There is a new splash install screen that can cover up the real install screen though if your computer isn't insanely fast, or you click on it impatiently.

When you see the black graphic install screen, click on the big install button. Wait.

If you do not see the usual blue/white installation dialog after a bit, look at your dock. You should see two running icons: a yellow arrow coming out of a box (the splashy install screen) and a blue downward arrow in a white circle labeled ArchiCAD Installer. Click on that button to bring the installer window to the front - or just use expose. Click next, etc.

If for some reason that installer never runs, then you may have to browse the DVD manually in the PPC folder to find the ArchiCAD Installer.app

HTH,
Karl

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Chazz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:14:37 GMT

Michael wrote:
There seems to be a problem with the PPC Mac installer.

Sounds like an OOBF.

Bummer. If you needed one more degrading, humiliating kick in the teeth to get a MacTel machine, this may be it. Heed the sage words of our good Mr. Ottenstein --and good luck!

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Works OK for me on my old dual G4. (Astounding how slow it is compared to my Mac Pro!) There is a new splash install screen that can cover up the real install screen though if your computer isn't insanely fast, or you click on it impatiently.

When you see the black graphic install screen, click on the big install button. Wait.

If you do not see the usual blue/white installation dialog after a bit, look at your dock. You should see two running icons: a yellow arrow coming out of a box (the splashy install screen) and a blue downward arrow in a white circle labeled ArchiCAD Installer. Click on that button to bring the installer window to the front - or just use expose. Click next, etc.

If for some reason that installer never runs, then you may have to browse the DVD manually in the PPC folder to find the ArchiCAD Installer.app

HTH,
Karl

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Steve Jepson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:13:29 GMT

I have mine up and running

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Mark Wallace — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:34:54 GMT

Did all that. I got a dialog that said "Archicad 12 cannot be installed on this platform." Poked around the DVD and found that the Archicad 12 (PPC Mac) folder just had a folder named Defaults inside. The Archicad 12 (Intel Mac) had the Defaults folder plus Archicad Installer, archive.jar, media.inf, setup.AC, setup_M.AC. Something's missing, seems to me. Another subtle hint to get a MacTel machine, I suppose...

Yep! I'm having the same problem too and there's only a file 'Text,info' in the ArchiCAD folder. I tried Karl's approach but no luck. The installer wizard says '....12 cannot be installed on this platform.'

I guess I'll have to wait until Monday and contact tech support unless someone can figure it out here.

Staying tuned....

Mark Wallace

Mark R. Wallace AIA
Collegeville, PA

Mac Power PC G5, Dual 2.3 Ghz
2 Gb SDRAM
ArchiCAD 11 1210 USA Full (& tryin' to get to 12!)

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:28:32 GMT

Mark wrote:
I tried Karl's approach but no luck. The installer wizard says '....12 cannot be installed on this platform.'

How weird. I wonder if GS burned the DVDs incorrectly. In the interest of full disclosure, my PPC installation was from a disk image that I downloaded, not from the delivered DVD...but the disk image I used is supposed to be the same as what is on the DVD.

Please post here (or perhaps in a new thread "Installing AC 12 on PPC Mac") when tech support gives you a solution!

Cheers / sympathy,
Karl

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Richard Morrison — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:55:56 GMT

It's amazing quiet here with reactions to AC12 (other than the beta testers, of course.) Is it that nobody has received and started using it?

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Dwight — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:53 GMT

I guess they all decided to wait for version 13.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Dennis Lee — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:10:08 GMT

Richard wrote:
It's amazing quiet here with reactions to AC12 (other than the beta testers, of course.) Is it that nobody has received and started using it?

I'm waiting for my boxes to arrive. Should be this week, I believe.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Dennis Lee — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:13:58 GMT

Dwight wrote:
I guess they all decided to wait for version 13.

I jumped into the new 3 year subscription program...so I guess I'll be getting 12, 13, & 14...imagine all the possibilities w/ 13 & 14...

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:52:13 GMT

Richard wrote:
It's amazing quiet here with reactions to AC12 (other than the beta testers, of course.) Is it that nobody has received and started using it?

Not all received the box yet, we still waiting... reseller says "up to 10 days", fast... isn't it

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

kevin b — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:32:35 GMT

Just got ours yesterday, install no problems, seamlessly lets you migrate your old WE from 11 but be careful as you might miss some new stuff. Even if you were using standard menu setup from 11, it migrates that over so some menu items missing. Should have been if you were using standard from 11 it uses standard from 12, easy enough to fix.

Dimension tool improvements really nice, long overdue.

Already made the curtain wall tool crash three times. Its kinda buggy. Has some interface issues, dialog box size randomly fits onscreen and then is insanely long and shoots off the right side of screen (and I use two wide screens!!!). The extra environment takes some getting used too, but all in all seems like it will be a nice addition.

That's all I have so far.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:50:14 GMT

Just got my box via UPS mere moments ago...North Texas.
Can't wait to get it installed and start playing.

Re: anyone have received the upgrade 12

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:51:24 GMT

Got mine, installed this morning. Everything seems fine. The stairmaker tool has improved greatly, you could actually use it for the plan and not just for the model.