11 favorites to 12 favorites

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to transfer all or most of my favorites settings that were based off of V11 library to V12 library? It would be quite time consuming to save new favorites in V12.

And or saving a previous template made in V11 to V12 with the V12 library etc?

And I guess the same with layers, line types, fills etc.?


Thanks,
Jim

[__archiben]

JMM4JMC wrote:
Is there a way to transfer all or most of my favorites settings that were based off of V11 library to V12 library? It would be quite time consuming to save new favorites in V12.

And or saving a previous template made in V11 to V12 with the V12 library etc?

And I guess the same with layers, line types, fills etc.?

have you actually tried opening your 11 template file with 12 and then re-saving? that should do the trick

otherwise, look in the menus for 'attribute manager' as a tool that provides easy transfer of project attributes from one to another. as for favourites (and model view options, etc...) they can be exported from one file and re-imported in to others. for favourites: use the fly-out on the palette as shown in the attached screenshot...

but as i said, simply opening up your AC11 file should be sufficient. remember to change the loaded libraries using 'library manager'. and that should be it. you may get a couple of library errors to deal with, but certainly nothing as long-winded as attribute/favourites/model view combination/view transfer . . .

HTH
~/archiben

[__archiben]

just a note of explanation i guess:

library parts are referred to by archicad initially by their 32 digit ID code (GUID - Globally Unique IDentifier) and by name only when there is no matching GUID.

take a look at this article on the wiki...

http://www.archicadwiki.com/GUID?highlight=%28GUID%29

... which should explain things a little further. basically, this means that as long as the new AC12 library parts are using the same main GUID as their predecessors, archicad is intelligent enough to substitute the new revisions - and with it your settings - where necessary.

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ben.
Well so far importing my previous favorites from V11, all cabinets, windows, doors and some misc other library parts are all greyed out so I assume those V11 favorites parts don't have the same GUID as the V12.
Some late nights ahead of me of redoing favorites.

And as far as the template from V11, I opened it in V12, removed V11 library and loaded V12 library and re-saved as a new template. Worked great, kept all of my layers, line types, schedules, master sheets and on and on.

Jim

[Anonymous]

I suppose you could load the AC11 library, that way you have less work to do. Im about to tackle the same job some of my library parts go back to V9!

[Anonymous]

Lennox wrote:
I suppose you could load the AC11 library, that way you have less work to do. Im about to tackle the same job some of my library parts go back to V9!

That is what I'm trying to avoid, defeats the purpose of using the newest library/parts. Every new version, I have to redo some my favorites in one form or another, I guess I will have to keep doing it.

Jim

[Anonymous]

Hi Jim
If you have not seen this yet, you might want to take a look?
For the North American market, this may be the way to go as
base library?
http://www.archicad.ca/?p=75
Bier

[Karl Ottenstein]

Bier wrote:
For the North American market, this may be the way to go as
base library?
http://www.archicad.ca/?p=75

The ACE library is a great volunteer effort to unify libraries - something that GS themselves should have done. But, that lib is still at version 11 AFAIK ... and using it has nothing to do with getting old Favorites to work with new library part functionality. Replacing Favorites for any object-type tools is a slow, manual process that even parameter transfer cannot solve because of the types of changes that have been made.

Only the AC 12 library parts 'know' about partial wall display (core only, etc) and so all old Window/Door Favorites have to be replaced if that functionality (and lots of other new 12 window/door functionality) is desired. No easy way around it.

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Thanks Karl
That helps me understand the problem.
Especially for the Res. remodel design/build projects
I do, I would not want to give up partial structural display.

Maybe Andy and his Guru friends can eventually integrate if more folks
can, at the very least, donate the min $20?/(100?)
I did load it as the only library and really liked what I saw, but did not
think to try partial structural display. I'm bummed.
Sure wish I could have best of both.
Bier

[matthewjj]

My experience is that you are better off recreating your own template file from the factory installed template that comes with archicad. Opening template files made in older versions (by you or others) and saving them as 'New" templates will almost always lead to extreme frustration. This is also true for attributes, work environments, etc.

You may think it is time consuming but taking the time up front to properly setup your template will be a time saver in the end. Graphisoft can't beta test every strange template configuration that users come up with. The one that ships with it does get well tested out during beta phase. This reduces conflicting library parts, macros, attributes, etc.

For instance: until last year our office template had a legacy library full of version 6.5 cabinets that was giving us all kinds of trouble. It took us a whle to figure what was causing the problems. Had we made sure from version to version to get rid of outdated items we could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble. It will take you a couple of hours to reassemble your template and work environment, but it will be worth it in the end when you aren't banging your head against the desk trying to figure out why archicad keeps crashing.

good luck!