Library tidy up

[Anonymous]

I'm sure there is a way to do this but i can't figure out how.

We have a project which because of its time scale is linked to libraries from version 11 through to 13. We are now set to open it and begin using the project in 14 and my question is this;

How can i open the project in 13, and create a container that includes only those library parts actually used on the project? Rather than hundreds of items that are not used and make for a very large .lcf file.
The idea then is to open the .lcf file (which will be a consolidation of USED parts from libraries 11-13) in 14 and then from there on in use 14 library parts.


Or an alternative method to tidy up would be just as well recieved. Thank you.

[Laszlo Nagy]

You should extract the LCF into a folder and load the folder instead of the LCF.
Do this with all LCFs. Then save as PLA. In the PLA only used Library parts will be included.
Then open the PLA and choose the extract to library option.
That extracted library is what you will need.

[David Maudlin]

laszlonagy wrote:
You should extract the LCF into a folder and load the folder instead of the LCF.

I don't think you need to extract the .lcf file(s) first for this process.

laszlonagy wrote:
Then save as PLA. In the PLA only used Library parts will be included. .

When Saving As... the ArchiCAD Archive Project (.pla) file, click on the "Options" button to save only the included parts (and review other options).

David

[Laszlo Nagy]

David wrote:
I don't think you need to extract the .lcf file(s) first for this process.

Actually, I haven't tried this step by step so you may be right.

[Anonymous]

I had a go at this yesterday with mixed results. I think somewhere along the line i wasn't paying attention because I still had some library parts missing at the end. Ill try again today and report back.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I think you also have another choice:
In ArchiCAD 14, you have the ArchiCAD Migration Libraries folder, which contains the migration libraries for versions 10-13.
Open the project in AC14 and load all these libraries for the project.
Then you need to handle only the missing library parts (if any).

[Erika Epstein]

There will still be some parts which you will still have to manually update. Alt/Opt+click on the missing part and then in the settings box inject the parameters you picked up, ctrl/cmd+alt/opt+click, into picture preview of the part in question.

[Anonymous]

Hi again,

Not quite sure what i did wrong last time but have done it without fault this afternoon. Perfect! Gone from loading 3 different complete libraries to one .lcf file at 25MB. Just what i was after. Thank you all for your help.