This is actually a very serious, fundamental problem.
I think poor Lintz and vhfan2u were ignored 2 years ago, but they had a valid question to CadImage AND to Graphisoft by extension.
Think about it: could an API provider shout down the whole application? - Because this thing disables ALL 3d windows.
CadImage support was not helpful at all yesterday. More later - deadline.
Read carefully posts - the answer is probably simply - but the screw-up is BAAD - it goes down to quality of our API’s and Graphisoft guidelines for API’s writing.
My case is simple; I’ve got the file archive from another office to check and finish, the file was created from templet w/ CadImage framing Add-On in it, but no CadImage objects were used (So it is not a portability issue). Well, I get missing add-on message and simply ignore it and that should be end of it.
But CadImage anti-shareware strategy is not allowing to copy anything to Archive format, so macros are not in. Would be fine, but their macros are on code level which shuts down all 3d generation in ArchiCad and that’s what Graphisoft should not allow (That's the >User break< Matthew, and it shouldn't be there, it's software forced - CadImage?).
The solution is simple - please point me to macro in question and I copy it to my macro folder (it will have a tail: which library? How long do I maintain it? aso..), or I can ask for an archive of the file after they uncheck Add-on and resave, will it work?-NO >By the way, we went from PC to Mac<
Neco - it shouldn't be a library issue: I don't need any CadImage objects, or load their libraries in this case, I want a fully functional file without any CI objects or add-ons remains (unchecking doesn't help, ArchiCad still looks for "Cadimage Macro" in the 1st line of the code) AND fully functional ArchiCad.
Let me spell it out for all of you again: the file created once on the computer w/ API, but no API content (object) in it, shuts down 85% of ArchiCad functionality! Amazing!!!
