ArchiCAD loading the standard library .pla twice

[Anonymous]

Has anybody encountered the situation where AC loads the ArchiCAD Library 81.pla twice during the file open process?

This is on a new & reset file with cleared caches and preferences. The only path the Library manager shows is to the /Applications/ArchiCAD folder/archicad libraries/ folder.

I'm a bit baffled. As the libraries staus window opens, the first time, it loads the .pla as phase 1 of 1. When that one is done, AC then proceeds to open the staus window again, and load the .pla as phase 1 of 13 which of course includes all the standard tools and add-ons.

We're having a machine that library manager is crashing consistently - I'm filing a bug report momentarily, and I'm wondering if this might be related...

Thanks
Wes

[Anonymous]

Same general subject, slightly different problem.

I've been thrown into a project that has had at least 8 different people working on it over the last 2 months. The problem is that somebody in the past loaded multiple libraries repeatedly. This graphic below shows what gets loaded when I sign into the project.

Note that the DCA Library.pla also contains the standard ArchiCAD library so users would only have to load one file. Also note that the OBJECTS folder contains the Roof, Stairs, Wall flashing, and X-bracing folders. So, every library is getting loaded at least twice -- some of them four times!

That's all bad enough, but the worst part is that I can't get rid of them. I've gone in as the Team Leader with exclusive access and trimmed the libraries down to just DCA Library.pla and the OBJECTS folder. But the next time I go in, they are all back! What is happening?!

[__archiben]

Jay wrote:
... but the worst part is that I can't get rid of them. I've gone in as the Team Leader with exclusive access and trimmed the libraries down to just DCA Library.pla and the OBJECTS folder. But the next time I go in, they are all back! What is happening?!

what's happening is that a teammate's library paths are stored as a preference on their local machine. if a teammate is using a different library set (i.e. a local one) their version of archiCAD knows this when they open the particular draft that it's related to.

what's strange is that a teammate seems to be able to send in some of these libraries to the PLP, but the teamleader doesn't have the priority to get rid of them. (at least the teamleader has some privileges now, eh? v8 anybody?)).

you need to assign the library paths as teamleader with exclusive access and delete the teamwork draft preferences of all teammates who've worked on the job. this is found in the users home folder: graphisoft preferences. on a mac this is:

~/Library/Preferences/Graphisoft/AC 8.1.0 v2/

where "AC 8.1.0 v2" is the version of archiCAD you're using. the draft preferences with be the ones in capitals.

note to graphisoft: library management and teamwork is something i've harped on about often enough and needs sorting out ASAP!!!!

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

This situation has also led to a problem with plotmaker finding local libraries for us. In a teamwork file, we have users copying pla's to their hard drive and reading those for the drawings. What we ran into is if the different users have their libraries located in different locations, it creates an issue with plotmaker not finding the object library to load.

[Anonymous]

Well, ~/archiben's solution seems to have worked. I had to come back to work after-hours and spend 45 minutes to get it done, but it worked. There were far better things I could have been doing at that time! Graphisoft really needs to fix the library management features.