Is AC11 stable enought to upgrade from AC10?

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks,

For those of you who already use AC11 in a productive environment, where is the question...

Is AC11 stable enought to upgrade from AC10?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Thomas wrote:
I've had absolutely no speed problems on my macBookPro with AC11. But I haven't migrated any significant AC10 projects.
As always, I would guess that the recommendation is to not migrate projects that have already gone fairly well along in AC10…

Agreed, but this is a (Hopefully) 4 to 5 year proyect with multiple buiildings. The one that is behaving slow started on AC09, moved to 10, starts construction for the next 24 months and changes then will have to be done in 10. Phase 2 starts in about 3 months and it will take about 9 months to complete design and construction docs. For this one I have a choice to start in AC11 and drawings will be done by the time that AC12 comes out and construction by the time 13 is out.

So I will be working Phase one for the next 18 months in AC10, phase 2 in AC11 since I paid for it, etc. So this project when it is done will have multiple files in different versions of AC to keep track of. I don't think this is efficient. Maybe I should not have paid for the subscription since I will be working in AC10 for the next 5 years and migrating projects is not "recommended".

Therefore I think that the "slownes" of a file created in a previous version should be treated as a bug. GS was the one that decided to move to a yearly release cycle for the ""BENEFIT"" of the users. Paying for an upgrade in order to be "less" efficient or not been able to use the current release because previous files are slow is not good business.

[TomWaltz]

I've spent all this week updating AC9 projects to AC11. That's a pain, since you have to convert the Plotmaker stuff. (since I did not do that when I should have with AC10)

Updating AC10 to AC11 is barely worth noticing. Unload the AC10 Archicad library, load the AC11 library and the AC10 subset library, and your done.

About four dozen projects in, the only problem I've had is the one Nathan Brauer noted the other day about updating modules deleting all my stories once in a while.

[Rakela Raul]

tom,
any speed issue with you ?

[TomWaltz]

I don't think it's any slower than AC10 was, but I thought that AC10 was really slow in redrawing plans.

[Rakela Raul]

thanku tom,

my problem could be that i have so much crap in my ac10 file, (tiff, pdf, jpegs, etc) dont know. thanku

[Anonymous]

AC11 from AC10 conversion very easy. No problems so far whatsoever.
Even with a pretty complicated, multi vectored meshed, SEO riddled piece of work.

My slowdown problems seems to be isolated to only one of my machines and I am currently speaking to Graphisoft trying to get to the bottom of it.

I give AC11 a thumbs up so far on ease to convert.
I haven't used it enough yet to rate it in other ways

[Rakela Raul]

UT...AC11 is now running rapidly (yesterday and today) with our 277Mb shared file. Complex sections and elevations are rebuilding in a robust, snappy way. I've never seen AC - even back to v4 - feel so responsive when being pushed to its limits. 3D Window and Photorendering (love that Koh_I_Nor with shadows!) are fast, too.

Weird - it feels like AC11 and the computer just had to get to know each other a little and get broken in. Hopefully the good performance continues (knocking on a wooden table top).

[Anonymous]

Yep! AC11 Feels like "Robot Break Dancing" in 2d/section...
Not really a PROBLEM... (by now)

[Rick Thompson]

If you want to crash AC11, you can. Play around with the ID field for a window... do it real fast.. maybe just leave it blank. I just crashed it about 5 times. I did this in beta too, but I thought it was fixed (although that issue was a bit different.. I think).

So, go real slow... and you'll have less risk if you don't blank the ID field out and quickly type something else in... go slow.

I wonder if it is related to the overall sluggishness. Seems if you go real slow it is ok... but not necessarily.


arrrrghhhhhh

[Anonymous]

The conversion of projects from 10 to 11 was so painless in one that I have converted that I plan to convert all projects I am working on. I personally have not seen a slow down except in some instances with trace. Someday I hope we have something that deals with updating drawings in the background as that gets frustrating. With all these multi processor machines we should give those other processors something to do...