AC doors and windows disappearing

[rm]

Using AC 8.1 doors or windows has been very frustrating. When adjusting them, stretching, changing parameters in plan, I find them disappearing on screen even in plan after rebuilding or refreshing the screen. Yet they show up in 3D just fine.

My work-a-round ( which is a complete waste of time ) is that I have to close the file, then restart the file, and then the parts show up as expected again.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Is this a know bug?

Is there an updated AC 8.1 Library that I should be using?

BTW, I'm using AC 8.1 on OSX 10.3.3 on a G4 with 1.5 megs of RAM.

Thanks,
Robert Mariani

[Anonymous]

The SEO problem (the one I am aware of anyway) with doors (and perhaps windows) is in the coding of the library parts themselves and is not a bug in ArchiCAD. This would also affect anyone using the problem parts whether on Mac or PC. It is curious whether to call this a bug since the doors are just doing what they have been coded to do (become simpler when involved in an SEO). I am guessing that the author of the GDL just didn't expect the doors to inherit their SEO status from the wall they are in (perhaps this is a bug?). I am still not clear why doors should be coded to account for this anyway.

[rm]

Matthew wrote:
The SEO problem (the one I am aware of anyway) with doors (and perhaps windows) is in the coding of the library parts themselves and is not a bug in ArchiCAD.......

Mathew, not sure what problem you are talking about since it is not the same issue both Dave and I have written about.

I'm sure the problem you are writing about is very important, but perhaps could be listed in a seperate thread, only in an effort to perhaps receive clearer insight from others to both the problem you speak of, and the one I initiated in this thread.

I'm guessing you picked up on the first SEO comment thinking this is what the thread is about.

Regards,
Architects Design Forum, Ltd.


RM

[Anonymous]

rm wrote:
I'm guessing you picked up on the first SEO comment thinking this is what the thread is about.RM

Sorry to be out of step here. You're right, I was responding to the SEO issue without going back to the start of the thread.