topic Re: Old AC files in Modeling

Old AC files

lagodue — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:40:53 GMT

I have some AC files from 1998 that I would like to access. AC9 and 10 won't open them. Any ideas?

Re: Old AC files

Thomas Holm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:37:01 GMT

AC7 (which also is available in an OSX version that even runs fine on MacIntels) should open anything as far back as AC4.5, I think.

You should be able to get a copy of AC7 from your reseller if you have a current licence. It runs with current WIBU keys.

Hopefully your file is a .pla which contains the library objects needed. Otherwise, you might get problems with any non-standard items.

Open in AC7, Save As (new name.pla) - this should make the file AC7-native.
Then Open in AC9, Save As (new name again.pln) - this should make it AC9-native.
Then Open iin AC10 or 11. Save As again.

Re: Old AC files

Djordje — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:16:08 GMT

Look here:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=17884

and read the Wiki ...

Thomas is right, 7 saves your bacon.