MISSING FILL

[Anonymous]

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This error message appears when I attempt to generate an elevation from a floor plan:Fill not found at line 105 ( then 251, 530, etc.) in 3D script wa_trim_us_10.gsm. I have no library loading errors, I cannot locate this file on my disk. Only 15 fills showed up in the fill dialog box when I tried to change a fill on one of the walls in floor plan. The walls in the plan are concrete, 2x4 1/2" gyp bd, 2x6 1/2" gyp bd, and 25% fill.

Could I solve this problem by downloading a new library file from Graphisoft?

I am using an Intel Mac with ArchiCAD 11.

Bill Dagnon

[Anonymous]

In the menu Options>Elements Attribute> AAT Manager, check whether these fills are loaded or not, otheriwse you can load them again from another file in AAT manager

[David Maudlin]

Bill:

Also, see this thread:

Library Parts Not Working Properly

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David

[Anonymous]

jaesengh & David Maudlin

Thank you for your suggestions, I will study them over. However I have located a back up copy of my project that does not seem to have this problem.

Bill Dagnon

[Karl Ottenstein]

Bill wrote:
Only 15 fills showed up in the fill dialog box when I tried to change a fill on one of the walls in floor plan.

Fills - like all other attributes (pens, composites, profiles, cities, materials, etc) are stored INSIDE the project file, not in a library or elsewhere.

The default US template has a lot of fills installed by default. Someone must have deleted a bunch of fills from your project file, thinking they were cleaning things up, but instead creating trouble.

Attached is a screenshot of the fills available to walls in the US AC 11 template.

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[Karl Ottenstein]

To flesh out the steps given by others, see the attached screenshot of Attribute Manager. For speed, there is only one image, but unfortunately the names on the buttons change after you do certain steps...

Back up your file first!

Click the Open button (shown as Close here) to open the default AC 11 template from within your program folder. If you cannot find it, just open a new project 'from template' and save it, then reopen YOUR project, and in this dialog open the empty project that you created from the template.

Switch to the Fill tab as shown. You'll see all of the template fills on the right, and you'll see the 15 lonely fills left in your project on the left.

Click one fill on the right and then click the Select All button (which reads "Deselect All") at the moment.

Then, click the <<Overwrite button to copy all of the template fills into your files at exactly the same index numbers. It is the number that matters, not the name.

Finally click Apply.

You might want to go through the other tabs - such as Materials - to see what else got deleted from your file and restore it the same way.

If someone mucked with your file in a way to move standard attributes into nonstandard index numbers, then the direct process above will result in your model not appearing correct. Someone else can post the more complicated steps if that is the case...

Karl

[Anonymous]

I have a similar problem. When I first open a project file this Library Report (see attached)pops up. Same message comes on again when I reopen the file after I have reloaded the image by going to Option>Element Attributes>Fill Types. This error message doesn't change after I re-deleted this Image (jpg file) either.

I am also using this particular Image for a material. Again the error message does pop up regardless the Image is linked to a material or not which I edit by going to Option>Element Attributes>Materials.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Bala,

An image file is different to a fill, so it is not quite the same problem.

You say you had a material with the image specified as the texture. Did you check the lightworks settings for that material as it may still be looking for it. This is separate to the internal and OpenGL settings. Try clicking the 'Match with Internal Engine' button to make them the same. (uncheck 'Disable unrelated controls' at the top to see all the settings.)

If you make any changes to the images folder structure or content, eg adding or deleting files, you have to re-load the library for AC to notice.

[Anonymous]

Peter:
I went ahead and made the changes (see attached) for the Lightworks. I did reload Libraries before and did it again after changes to the Lightworks. Still am getting the same error message.

Bala

[Anonymous]

I have attached the screen capture of the Library Manager which shows the Missing Object (CStone-Bucks County CSV-368183) is being loaded when I open this file. Thought this might help.

Also is there a way to have the Library Manager point to the location in which the Missing Object was originally located?