Libraries unavailable with upgrade to AC13

[Anonymous]

Hi.

I am new to this forum so first a bit about myself.

I am a 33 year old Norwegian architect with a bachelor from Newcastle uni, Australia. At my uni ArchiCAD was the standard, so all my student projects were done using AC09, AC10 and AC11. As the updates corresponded with new education years I sort of did my first year projects in AC09, 2nd year in AC10 and 3rd year in AC11.

I have now been working 2 years in an architecture firm in Luxembourg where we use Autocad Architecture, so it's been a long time since I have touched ArchiCAD. I'm sure I can get into it though.

I revisit my student projects for a portfolio I am making for entrance to Master studies.
I have installed ArchiCAD 13 on my desktop, and when I open up all the old projects, there are so many objects missing; doors, windows, walls, etc. The library it was referencing AC09, AC10 or AC11 is missing. What is the best practice in this situation?
Is it possible to upgrade these missing elements to AC13 objects? .. I have the old libraries on my laptop, so I can copy them to my desktop and reference them. But do I not then use old objects? .. Or do I link to the old libraries, and then with CTRL+F select for instance all doors, and set them to new objects?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
EIrik

[Anonymous]

There are transitional subset libraries that you can load that will allow you to update those parts that have been carried through the versions (by loading the latest library) while still having any discontinued parts available (in the transition libraries).

Another approach is to load only the original libraries, save as and archive (which embeds the used parts into the file) and then open the archive and load the latest library. There may be some duplicate parts in which case you will need to extract the library and remove the old dupes.

There may be some other wrinkles to this approach now in 13 and 14 with the ability to embed parts in the working file, but I'm to tired to think it out right now.

I hope this is reasonably clear. Library management can be a complicated subject. I suggest you also do a search as it has bee discussed often.

[Anonymous]

Hi Matthew and thanks for your reply.

I was suspecting the forum to have this discussion already (sorry for posting again) and I did some searches, but I didn't really know which keywords, so not very successful... The term "migration library" seems to show a lot of results.

As I see from earlier posts, this is something you have to download or is it installed with AC13?

Do I understand it correctly that the transitional subset libraries will update my objects to AC13 when possible, and if I load the original they will not be updated?

I can remember struggling a bit with the libraries in earlier versions, and this issue is not so clear to me, but I will try both methods and see how it works out.

Thanks,
Eirik

[Erika Epstein]

The 12 Migration library comes with 13; you still need to add/load it for each project. Previous Migration libraries, 11 and 10, are available via Help>AC13 downloads.

There will still be some library parts which you will have to manually update i.e. even with the migration libraries they will not be automatically updated.

It doesn't take that long to manually update them. IF you are going to be continuing to work in the file then it is worth the time as new features will be available.