Libraries & objects
About Archicad and BIMcloud libraries, their management and migration, objects and other library parts, etc.

.lcf files

Anonymous
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Is there an advantage to putting all your frequently used library parts into a container as opposed to just in a folder? Does it load parts faster or save disk space or anything like that?

Thanks,
Rick
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cremsberg
Contributor
So how does one open an .lcf container library and then make a new .lcf file container?
Claire Remsberg

Remsberg Architecture, P.A.

MacBook Pro, OSX 12.6, ArchiCAD v25 (5010)
__archiben
Booster
cremsberg wrote:
So how does one open an .lcf container library and then make a new .lcf file container?
File>Libraries and Objects>Create/Extract a Container...

~/archiben
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
~/archiben wrote:
File>Libraries and Objects>Create/Extract a Container...
Theses commands might have to be added to your Work Environment.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
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Digital Architecture
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__archiben
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David wrote:
Theses commands might have to be added to your Work Environment.
david - these are in the 'Standard' profile installed and operational by default . . .

~/archiben
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b f [a t ] p l a n b a r c h i t e c t u r e [d o t] n z
archicad | sketchup! | coffeecup
David Maudlin
Rockstar
~/archiben wrote:
david - these are in the 'Standard' profile installed and operational by default . . .
Ben:

You are correct, and they are in the "Layouting" and "Visualization" WEs as well. Guess I must have been thinking back to when these commands were added and did not show in older imported WEs.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14