Container subtype? Creating a door panel

[Anonymous]

I have done a search on this subject, and didn't find anything, so here goeas my cry for help.
I'm trying to do a custom door panel on AC 10, by the book, and when I try to save my slab in File>Libraries and Objects>Save Custom Component, I get this message:

There aren't any appropriate container subtypes in the loaded lybrary to activate this function.

AC 10 library is loaded.

What the **** is a container, and how do I load it?

Thanks in advance for helping me in this frustrating business.

It's been a long time since I had to ask for help...

[TomWaltz]

A container is a .LCF file, the new Archicad Library Format.

The error, to me, does not make any sense, though. I would expect it to run fine as long as you have the AC10 library loaded.

[Anonymous]

Tom

Thanks for your fast reply.
Just knowing that something should work, makes you try harder.

Problem solved, this way:

I did not load the AC10 library, but the lfc file.
This got me access to library objects, but not to the containers (whatever..)

So I unloaded the AC.lfc file, and loaded the AC10 library folder, and now it works fine

Thanks

[Link]

Tom

Any idea why the whole library was not included in the LCF?!

And do you see any problem with creating an lcf of all the ArchiCAD 10 Library subfolders, just the the AC9 Library.pla was?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link,
I was looking at page 112 of the new features guide
where it talks about the library container file
and apparently there seems to be no problem with what
you are asking.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

Thanks Peter

I had assumed as much, but still wonder why GS wouldn't just do it in the first place? Seems it would be easier to manage, escpecially for new users.

Thanks anyway!

Cheers,
Link.

[__archiben]

Link wrote:
... but still wonder why GS wouldn't just do it in the first place?

so that textures and background images can be opened, modified and resaved without having to unpack containers first?

~/archiben

[Link]

~/archiben wrote:

Link wrote:
... but still wonder why GS wouldn't just do it in the first place?

so that textures and background images can be opened, modified and resaved without having to unpack containers first?

~/archiben

So they drew the lines between objects and images?

No big deal I guess, but I think I'll create an all-encompassing lcf, as I don't alter the ArchiCAD Library anyway.

Cheers,
Link.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Link wrote:
So they drew the lines between objects and images?

Also, the List Templates and Property Data are not part of the LCF for a good reason: they are read-only if in the LCF, just as they were read-only if in the PLA in prior versions. (This is one of the reasons that the tutorials in the Calculate manual stopped working after about version 7 - or was it 8 - when the PLA library format was introduced and all of these things were included in the PLA.)

Cheers,
Karl (not really here)

[SeaGeoff]

Karl! Long time mate. How are things?