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Bathroom fixtures missing in AC 12 US library?

AC 12 2420 Mactel, and library up to date. I only get the wc basin etc. 2D symbols, and don't have the models.

Maybe with the CSI sections reshuffling the bathroom fixtures models just got lost somewhere? Or am I missing something big?
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Aaron Bourgoin
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If I understand the MEP documentation correctly, the plumbing parts lose their MEP 'smarts', lock themselves down so that they must be unlocked to be edited.

They regain their smarts once opened with an MEP enabled ArchiCAD.
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Karl Ottenstein
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Aaron wrote:
If I understand the MEP documentation correctly, the plumbing parts lose their MEP 'smarts', lock themselves down so that they must be unlocked to be edited.

They regain their smarts once opened with an MEP enabled ArchiCAD.
That's correct, Aaron. Good to point that out.

But, lest it sound scary to anyone - the 'smarts' are not truly 'lost', but are simply not active, and the 'lock' is just the ordinary AC lock/unlock, so easy to either unlock everything from the Edit menu, or just a particular object from its context menu.

Yes, when opened again with an AC with the MEP add-on installed and licensed, if the hotspots of MEP-enabled parts are adjacent to one another, then the pieces are once again recognized as a system.

Cheers,
Karl
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