Trouble with custom door panels

[Anonymous]

As the title says I'm having a bit of an issue with custom door panels in AC11. I created a glazed door panel to use with the bi-fold door types. Created the panels fine and were working ok until I reopened the project later and now the door panels have disappeared in 3d view and you can no longer select the door panel I created although the GSM file is still there. I tried to create the door panel again, but although it creates a gsm file for the panel it does not list it in the panel types under custom as it should. The other thing I noticed when creating the custom component, the drop down menu for selecting component type is listing all the options twice. I assume there is some bug here, any Idea how to fix it? Thanks

[Anonymous]

A coworker in my office wasn't having the same problem as me, so I deleted what I had in my Add-On folder and copied and pasted all the files that were in his Add-Ons folder on his computer.
( Applications>Graphisoft>ArchiCAD 11>Add-Ons)
I did this also for the ArchiCAD Library folder as well. The next time I opened my project that uses custom door panels they suddenly appeared again. If this hadn't of worked I was going to have to re-install ArchiCAD 11 again, because the Library and Add-On files are suppose to be part of the standard package. To this day I am not really sure why the custom door panel option disappeared. I am just happy that I can use it again.

[JaredBanks]

Agreed. I would love to know what happened because it's bothersome, but I'm happy to move on. And at least I know how to fix it if it happens again.

[JaredBanks]

Curious. I had this same problem again today (2 months later). Has anyone come across this or learned anything new about the macro file corrupting? At least it's a quick fix now.

[Laura Yanoviak]

I was receiving the following message when trying to save a Custom Door Panel. The GSM file was from an LCF, but its source was not an archive file, nor was it read-only. I replaced the Macros as others have suggested and now it works, but something is definitely wrong here...

[Anonymous]

The custom panel seems too buggy for any productive use, just like the grid tool

[Erika Epstein]

Juha wrote:
The custom panel seems too buggy for any productive use, just like the grid tool

Aha! this explains my sometimes-its-there sometimes-its not behavior of my custom panel door.

[Zsolt Kardos]

This seems to be a glitch with either the Custom Component add-on or - more likely - the "Door_Panel_Collection.gsm" macro. You should try the following things:


-try to reload the active libraries (make sure that the panel elements are also loaded)
-delete your Library Cache (search for a file called ArchiCADGdlBinCode.dat). It is possible that this cache got corrupted somehow.
-Check if you have more than one Door_Panel_Collection.gsm in your active libraries. This could happen if you have loaded both AC 10 and 11 libraries. In this case, you should only keep the AC 11 macro

[Anonymous]

I have had this problem periodically in both 10 and 11. I think there is something wrong with the component objects or at least how AC incorporates them. The solution for me has been to keep a copy of a fresh install of the AC library in a separate folder, any time my door/window custom panels disappear, I copy in the custom component object from my backup install into the active library and reload. The panels reappear. This seems to be a somewhat widespread problem, I am very distressed that in 2 versions and many library updates, this has never been corrected.

[Anonymous]

Thanks a whole bunch Ben Odonnell!
This has been drivin me nuts.