Archicad 10 MacTel Beta Feedback

[archislave]

The Beta of the OSX universal release is running fast and stable on a Macbook with 512 mb ram. I would say it is almost equal to the iMac G5 with 1.5 gb ram!

The one thing that puzzles me about the beta is that it seems to have a totally different menu structure and does not seem to have a measure tool. It also did not seem to ship with templates or the default icon strip at the top. I don't know if it is because it is a work in progress or if I a missing something in my installation.

I think it is ready as far as speed and stability go!

[Aussie John]

~/archiben wrote:

i'd appreciate anyone being able to either confirm whether or not it happens in their setup. i can at least then start looking for the problem in the right places . . . cheers!


~/archiben

Just a list of layouts - no subsets
Masters are at the bottom though

[__archiben]

Aussie wrote:
Just a list of layouts - no subsets
Masters are at the bottom though

and all masters are the same size, and none with drawing grids set up . . . ?

do you have an intel archicad to open the same file with . . ?

so do i have a corrupt file, or is there something in the intel file format that is messing with the PPC version of AC?

graphisoft?

~/archiben

[Aussie John]

~/archiben wrote:
and all masters are the same size, and none with drawing grids set up . . . ?

do you have an intel archicad to open the same file with . . ?

so do i have a corrupt file, or is there something in the intel file format that is messing with the PPC version of AC?

graphisoft?

~/archiben

Hi Ben
all the Masters are A1 and blank
I only have PPC version of the software and running on G5
Seems to be a bug rather than a corrupt file.

Attached is the bottom half of the layout list
good luck

[James Murray]

I have identical results to John.

It looks exactly like this. All Nav items gone, layouts remain, generic masters, definitely occurs on opening. Mine is all PPC though.

[owen]

Yep thats what I got ... PPC only here too

[Anonymous]

Ben,

It opens fine on my Mactel machine - hierarchy is intact. My PowerBook has been handed on to my partner so I can't easily test that, but there seems to be plenty of confirmation by others. I'll try it in WinXP when I get to work.

I guess this is why they are calling it a public beta.

[James Murray]

Hm. Broken on Mactel for me. (My coworker got one.)

[Anonymous]

Ben, Here's what I did with your file:
1. Open/close on MacBook - view map files/subfiles intact
2. Open above file on G5 - same results as others above.

3A. Close file on G5 without saving, re-open on MacBook - original view map folders/subfolders intact as original.

3B. Save on G5, close, re-open on MacBook - view map is now gone, layout book subfolders gone.

I have repeated this process again with a project originating in AC10 and the view map & layouts remains intact, so this is not a bug for me.

[Anonymous]

Opening in WinXP on my MacBook Pro - hierarchy is now gone.

Strange stuff, this. I am not having any problems of this sort with any file; whether converted from AC9 or started new. But I have no PPC machines in the mix.

[__archiben]

ok. i opened the file with the PPC version, lost my layout hierarchies, etc... james, i hadn't realised that my views had gone too because i hadn't 'created' any - but i realise now that placing project indexes meant some views had been automatically generated - they're also missing. maybe this is the same bug?!

so: i faithfully recreated my layout hierarchy from the PPC version of archicad, saved and opened with the mactel. all OK. saved with the mactel and re-opened with the PPC version. all OK. deep. breath.

i have a feeling that the bug is the same, or extremely similar, to james': not caused by the intel<>PPC translation, but by some other trigger. the fact that it opens OK in the intel version probably means that it's a file format bug that they've already got nailed in the intel build . . ? doesn't bode well for multi PPC/intel platform offices if it should happen before the first PPC patch comes out . . .

please can we have some feedback on this, graphisoft?!

~/archiben