Is anyone else less productive with ArchiCAD 10?

[Brad Elliott]

As I sit here just finishing up sending a set of drawings to plot having spent 40 minutes cleaning up the drawings so the will plot without the black fill bug I have just realized that somehow my auto referencing on all my sections and elevations is screwed up and all sections reference the same drawing and all elevations a different one. So once again I have a set going out that is not right.

Which leeds me to contemplate that I have been working on this project in AC10 for two months now and it is behind schedule and over budget and I have yet to have a clean set of plots go out. I am finding lots of bugaboos with this version that have turned into productivity killers. I am finding the internal plotting a time killer because I cannot work in the file while it is updating, the black fill bug is taking up time, misreferencing section cuts are now getting me, the Sun study bug lost me a couple of days. And without really being able to list other items I just have a general (and monetary) feeling that I have not achieved productive parity with AC9 and am strongly considering returning to it. It seemed like with AC9 I was more productive immediately.

Is anyone else experiencing this or am I just grouchy/loosing my touch?

[Anonymous]

Brad wrote:
Has anyone else had a problem with the section/elevation tool losing its correct auto-referencing? Should I start a new topic or was it just a unique on off event to drive me over the edge?

I ran into this yesterday. It killed half a day figuring out how to fix it (not trivial) and the fix is still yet to be done (someone else's job).

Go ahead and start the topic. I'd like to know if there are any others with this problem and if it is recurrent.

[andrewzarb]

Going right back to the start of this thread...

Brad wrote:
I cannot work in the file while it is updating

you could run the project in teamwork and have two ArchiCADs open, one for editing and one for layouts.