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How to Ac 13 Export to Ac 12 archive?

Anonymous
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Dear The great community of archicad,

Please help, How do I export AC 13 file to Ac 12 archive (Pla file)?
We a working on a project that create on Ac13, however, we need to send to file over to our consultant who using Ac12.

We tried export to AC12, but the library and the object did not transfer.
Please help, thank you in advance.
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Laszlo Nagy
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Unfortunately, library parts are not backward compatible.
So AC13 library parts will be missing when saved as AC12.
Also, any new feature of AC13 (e.g. annotations in schedules) will be gone in the AC12 saved file since in that version that thing did not exist.

You can create an AC12 archive only in AC12.
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Rafal SLEK
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Check that Embedded library parts are saved with project to version 12!
LCF file with custom libraries is created in the same folder as archicad file for v 12.
Try then to load ArchiCAD pln file with standard libraries for AC 12 and this LCF file.

Why it is not working for version 14?!
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