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Transfer work environment to Silicon?

Peter Van Erp
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How can I import my work environment (as set up in many generations of Intel Archicad) into Silicon Archicad?  Or do I have to redo it piece by piece?

 

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon 15.4 Sequoia

Peter Van Erp
Archicad user since 2002, 7 to 26
Current MAC Studio M2 Sequoia 15.4
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David Maudlin
Rockstar

Peter Van Erp:

 

I used the same custom Work Environment on both chips without any issue or changes. Under Work Environment select your Work Environment Profile, then click the Export button to save your WE for Import on another computer. I don't recall any problems switching from Intel to Silicon with ArchiCAD.

 

David

David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC28 USA • Mac mini M4 Pro OSX15 | 64 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

I have never tried this but I would export your Work Environment from your old Intel machine and then try to import it to the new Silicon one.

I am not sure how it will handle keyboard shortcuts or folder paths as they will be different.

But all you can do is try.

 

Or maybe you can just export/import just the menus and toolbars (they should be the same).

And worry about the shortcuts separately.

 

Worst case scenario, you will have to recreate WE from scratch.

 

Barry.

 

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
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David Maudlin
Rockstar

Peter Van Erp:

 

I used the same custom Work Environment on both chips without any issue or changes. Under Work Environment select your Work Environment Profile, then click the Export button to save your WE for Import on another computer. I don't recall any problems switching from Intel to Silicon with ArchiCAD.

 

David

David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC28 USA • Mac mini M4 Pro OSX15 | 64 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14

Sorry, I think you mean MAC Intel to MAC Silicon?

If so there should be no issues.

 

I was thinking you were meaning Windows Intel to Mac Silicon.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

I was trying to do it the same way you can import Attributes.  I missed the export step.  Thanks.

Peter Van Erp
Archicad user since 2002, 7 to 26
Current MAC Studio M2 Sequoia 15.4

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