migrating AC(

[Anonymous]

Anyone knows how to do this?
I have a preliminary completed project in AC9 and I want to convert it to
AC10. I have a AC10 Template that already has all the layout setups.
So I want the contents of the AC9 Model file but not the layout files.
When I tried to open the AC9 file into my AC10 template file, all the AC10 layout setups are gone. Thanks.

[TomWaltz]

What do you mean by "Open it into your Template"?

[__archiben]

Benjamin wrote:
Anyone knows how to do this?
I have a preliminary completed project in AC9 and I want to convert it to
AC10. I have a AC10 Template that already has all the layout setups.
So I want the contents of the AC9 Model file but not the layout files.
When I tried to open the AC9 file into my AC10 template file, all the AC10 layout setups are gone. Thanks.

merge. there are two ways, and depending on the extent of your template you should consider both . . .

1. merge the layout data from the template file into the model file (GS recommended in the migration guide): you will loose any modelling attributes you may have set up for 10 in your template file. you will still have a single 'layout 001' left over from the default layout environment of the model file (every 10 file has to have one floor plan window, one layout and one master layout in it): simply delete it and the master.

2. merge the model data from your 9 file into the 10 template: you will lose your views, but retain all of the work you've done setting up modelling attributes in the template. you'll need to clean up, re-make views, etc. longer but ultimately more rewarding if you've gone to a lot of trouble in your new 10 template file.

HTH and that i haven't confused you too much . . .
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Is "merge" = external contents>Place external drawing? Since there is no merge command in AC10.
Thanks

[Anonymous]

I do not mean to "hijack" the question or confuse the issue....but

If a nice new Template for AC10 is set up, and say that I allow GS to name most of the "Materials" and "fills" that they have named previously, and then add a few new materials and fills that I desire to use in my template. The materials and fills may have different ID's than any of the materials or fills with the same names from a legacy AC9 file.

When merging the AC 9 file into this new AC10 Template how are the materials and fills with the same names, but different ID's assigned?

Does this migration question make sense?

[__archiben]

Benjamin wrote:
Is "merge" = external contents>Place external drawing? Since there is no merge command in AC10.
Thanks

no. it's File>File Special>Merge...

once you've told archicad which file you want to merge it will ask you which data set you want to merge into your file: the modelling or layout data.

Jay wrote:
When merging the AC 9 file into this new AC10 Template how are the materials and fills with the same names, but different ID's assigned?

i just merged a 9 file into my current 10 file - which is using some of the same materials as the 9 file, appended using 'attribute manage' - and the material name stays the same (i.e. archicad doesn't duplicate the material if its name already exists.

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ben I'll try that.