Renaming library Parts

[Anonymous]

Hi all

In my infinite wisdom when I wrote my library parts I put V8 behind them, now that I am updating them to V9 I want to get rid of the version number. Now renaming the objects is working fine, no problems, however the doors and windows are giving me nightmares. When I open a V8 plan in V8 with the newly renamed library I get nice big dots for all my doors & windows. The internal id numbers are identical and if I change the name back it works.

Has anyone got any ideas. I need to get rid of the version number for constancy between objects and scheduling.

I am on Windows XP using the Australian version of 8.1.

Julia Skinner

[Barry Kelly]

Julia wrote:
Hi all

In my infinite wisdom when I wrote my library parts I put V8 behind them, now that I am updating them to V9 I want to get rid of the version number. Now renaming the objects is working fine, no problems, however the doors and windows are giving me nightmares. When I open a V8 plan in V8 with the newly renamed library I get nice big dots for all my doors & windows. The internal id numbers are identical and if I change the name back it works.

Has anyone got any ideas. I need to get rid of the version number for constancy between objects and scheduling.

I am on Windows XP using the Australian version of 8.1.

Julia Skinner

Hi Julia,
Just out of interest I thought I'd give this a go.
Created a new library with one object and one window.
Loaded that library and placed the object and window in the plan, saved and closed the file.
Simply renamed the object and window in explorer (I'm using Windows XP) and then re-opened the plan.

The odd thing was the objects in the plan still had the old library names and they showed up fine even though those parts no longer existed (by name).
So I unloaded the library and then re-loaded it.

Now the object and window both have the new names and they appear in the plan as normal.
Obviously because the internal ID has remained the same they are effectively replaced in the plan.

For some reason the internal ID of your doors and windows must be getting changed.
Saving the object (window) as a new name in Archicad would do that and would cause the objects not to load.

Don't know if this helps any but this was my experience.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

The first thing I did was check the id numbers where the same. I even changed the name back and forward in explore to check it. It worked with the old name but not the new. I just tried making a new door & object and then changed the name, it worked fine. Something weird is happening.

BTW while I was checking my id numbers I noticed 2 of my windows had the same id, could this be causing the problem?

Julia

[Tibor Szolnoki]

The following article on ArchiGuide provides a pretty comprehensive description of the ArchiCAD library object identification process:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/guid.html
I highly recommend all AC users to read it.

Let me know if you still have questions.

Best regards,