How does one get experience in this area? Old Spouses Tales, i guess: Sort of like knowing that cayenne pepper is good for staunching blood flow in an emergency.
Is there a list of these things? Yes. Just read the entire Archicad Forum archive.
"Converted" may or may not be valid - what it is trying to tell you is that the code doesn't make proper sense. Most likely a bad setting. If not, then an old object.
In the window bit problem, I have had years of difficulty with just those kinds of elements, and after spelunking in the Archicad library files, have learned to interpret the code names. I have geek genes even if my daddy was a motorcycle thug. He must have been trying to disguise his sensitive nature.
Solving these problems is tricky. Sometimes an ordinary user, through intentional or accidental object settings is the first person to discover a problem that makes it all the way through Beta testing. Sort of like after i got my new Volvo and immediately drove it to Mexico and back. Because of the extra mileage, my car was the first one to have the lambdadoodie valve crap out.
But warnings are warnings and a user needs to think like a mechanic to systematically remember what they did just before things went wrong.
Dwight Atkinson
