Working with Libraries

[Anonymous]

I am just starting to use Archicad v11 at college and also v12 at home. Is it possible to load both libraries? as there seem to be things I am losing in the files when doing work at home. Missing Library info for doors and windows...
Any help much appreciated.

[Erika Epstein]

AC12 will not read all the 11 parts. There is, however, a v11 transitional library as part of it. Instead, for AC12, load only the full AC11 library. You can dowload it from graphisofts website of bring a copy of it from school.

Are they both education versions?

[Barry Kelly]

And don't forget if you save a file in version 12 at home you won't be able to open it at all in version 11 at college.
Unless you "Save As" into version 11 format.
Barry.

[ztaskai]

Erika wrote:
AC12 will not read all the 11 parts.

This statement isn't true by itself. AC12 does read AC11 library parts. It can even use very old library parts like AC3. The problem is only that you don't have the full AC11 library in the AC12 package. This isn't a big problem though because :

Erika wrote:
There is, however, a v11 transitional library as part of it.

You can use this migration library in conjunction with the v12 library and you have access to the whole AC11 element set in AC12 this way. You have to be careful to use v11 compatible objects only - as there is no way to use v12 objects in AC11.

Regards,
Zsolt

[Anonymous]

ztaskai wrote:

Erika wrote:
It can even use very old library parts like AC3.

Well not quite. It's a minor point, but version 4.0 are the oldest parts that are still readable.

All parts from version 3 and earlier required conversion to be used in 4.0 and beyond. This was due to a fundamental change in the underlying geometry of the GDL. The conversion was accomplished with a separate utility and not by AC4 itself. This is of no consequence of course as all such parts were converted (or discarded) almost twenty years ago.

I do find it remarkable that such old parts still work.

[rocorona]

Matthew wrote:
I do find it remarkable that such old parts still work

I do find more remarkable that it can't read the old .PLA, but this is another thread...