Increasing Instability in 10

[Anonymous]

I have been working on a pln/plp file for a single family house for some time

The file has gotten pretty complex with a lot of modelled elements and a lot of textures, everything is in the file no modules, a couple of weeks ago I switched over to 10, and everything seemed to be going well, renderings were faster and what not

But then I started getting frequent crashes while doing intensive 3d tasks in the 3d window like editing objects and flying around a lot.

Then Renderings kept stalling out indefinitely

Now Archicad is crashing frequently while just drawing or editing elements in the floor plan view, archicad just disappears, sometimes I don't even get the little autosave window upon reopening

I had converted the file to a teamwork file and I recently converted it back to pln, I know that I have a few squirly gdl objects because I get several bad parameter reports every time I open the file

What can I do? I have got to be cranking out the CDs and I keep crashing

[TomWaltz]

My impression was that the standard Archicad 9 library is not compatible with Archicad 10, but the Special Edition Archicad 9 library is.

[Anonymous]

Some may have noticed my earlier post concerning "crash is 3D window". I experienced the disappearing crashes while selecting items in the 3D window. I'm still not 100% sure, but the good folks at Graphisoft and I think there may be a problem with my video card that is not showing up on hardware diagnostic tests. I'm on a PC and they asked me to go to my Display Settings and set the Hardware Acceleration to None which disables the video hardware and therefore the processor is forced to do the calculations. It's a little slower, but at least it's working now. I'm not sure where the equivalent MAC OS setting is located. The permanent solution is still in the works.

[Rod Jurich]

Mike wrote:
Rod, the parameter transfer is similar to what you can do in the drawing/modeling environment, but enables you to transfer parameters between different library objects in the object default settings, window default setting or any other type of library part dialog box.

Thanks Mike, I use this when wanting to transfer parameters say from 1 door to another. I just never had thought about tranfering from library to library because of my library structure.

This can be useful at times. I use to re-structure my libraries and re-adjust default settings to suit my needs, but found that I would miss out on some of the changes that new library parts offer as the program evolved and the time involved to do this was limiting. I a similar to you in that the default library organization leaves a lot to be desired, but some of the alternate ways to view the library have helped with this issue (find and subtype).

Rarely do I use subtypes. Having spent much time years past in creating My_Library, as a carpenter would organise his toolbox so it is with my libraries. I just know where to put my hand/mouse to find what I need.

My new methodology is using groups of favorites to get me quickly to the part and settings I need.
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This of course requires screen real estate so you can always have your favorites palette open and big enough so you can quickly get at what you need.

Agreed, how many have noticed the way 10 manages favourites now. Instead of all favourites being available to choose from, they are now only shown in the respective tool setting.

So now you have to select the tool before selecting your favourite.

One more frustrating step in the chain. I miss being able to click on fav/window then fav/door.

Given the "real estate" that is available I find this change irritating. That's why my 24" Dell is my primary screen and the mac 23" sits to the left with navigator/favourites/drwg manager/email etc.

Right now, none of the above helps Kyle. It would be nice to be able to "transport" to his office as I know how to fix his problem. He may wish to mail me personally to enable a quicker exchange.

[Rod Jurich]

silly wrote:

Agreed, how many have noticed the way 10 manages favourites now. Instead of all favourites being available to choose from, they are now only shown in the respective tool setting.

Even this old bloke is happy to learn.
Guess who went and looked at favourite prefs just now.

Applogies to GS. ':oops:'

[Anonymous]

Mike wrote:
One method is to transfer parameters between the 9 parts and the 10 parts in the object default settings dialog box. .... The procedure is to select the items that you want to "switch" to the 10 library, open the object default settings, search for the same part in the 10 library and alt/cntrl - opt/cmd click on the 10 part to transfer the parameters from the equivalent 9 part that was selected in the floor plan view. ...

Mike, I thought that the transfer did not "work" between AC9 and AC10 parts. Just like it did not work between the AC9 and the AC9SE Library. I thought that the AC 10 Library was based on the AC9SE.

Edit: Just read Page two of this post and what Tom Said. That is what I thought.

[Rod Jurich]

Kyle wrote:
Thanks, /.......................thanks for your help, still trying to sort it all out

Kyle you wrote to me 15th Aug. My out box still shows uncollected reply same day. In case you are not aware you need to check your private mail.
Don't want you to think I hadn't responded. And if you have sorted your library problem then all is well.