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

[matthewjj]

Matthew wrote:
"VB/BIM Standards" to be specific to the software application stuff, or "ArchiCAD Standards" to exclude the AutoCAD and otherCAD stuff.

Thank you Matthew.

[matthewjj]

Listen to yourself dude. You had a similar reply to another post - why don't you RTFM? Or do a search? or get some basic training? You can't expect to take up these power user's valuable time with such simple questions!

And put your toys back in your pram.

Hunter.

I did a little background research on our new 'Forum Rudeness Czar'. Hunter, I will ask you to please not make any further comments on this string if this is the type of behavior that can be expected of you.

[Anonymous]

matthewjj wrote:

Listen to yourself dude. You had a similar reply to another post - why don't you RTFM? Or do a search? or get some basic training? You can't expect to take up these power user's valuable time with such simple questions!

And put your toys back in your pram.

Hunter.

I did a little background research on our new 'Forum Rudeness Czar'. Hunter, I will ask you to please not make any further comments on this string if this is the type of behavior that can be expected of you.

Did I miss something here, did someone delete a post?

Jim

[matthewjj]

Sorry Jim. I posted one of Hunter's quotes from another thread. Here is the link:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=110162&highlight=#110162

If you search him (Hunter Halloway) under authors you will find many more comments filled with contempt for new users.

[__archiben]

matthewjj wrote:
... please detail for me which of my comments you found to be smug, self-righteous and rude...

how about your first line in this post:

matthewjj wrote:
I am still waiting for a detailed answer to the question about best practices for version migration. There are a lot of people hell bent on disagreeing with anything I say ...

having had people offering you suggestions on best practice and - oh shock horror - having people disagreeing with you. that's pretty smug and self righteous for someone accusing others of not taking any criticism.

as for the "rude" part:

matthewjj wrote:
Unfortunately, they have shown their true colors as smug, close minded, egotistical know-it-alls with abject contempt for others opinions and experiences.

i think you need to have a read of some of the suggestions made here and go back and re-assess your own methods. from what i can make out, amongst all of us "respected users" here you seem to be the only one having problems migrating from 11 to 12.

now. pick up your toys and off you pop . . .
~/ben

[matthewjj]

Again, for the record, I haven't asked for any advice on this topic. I got ganged up on by 'respected users' after having shared my personal opinion/experience with version migration to poor old Jim. Also, it was Hunter who accused me a being rude, that is why I asked him to provide me with some details. Since he is of course the shining example of courtesy after all, I think he even has a poster. You did a good job though.

[Laszlo Nagy]

matthewjj wrote:
I am still waiting for a detailed answer to the question about best practices for version migration.

The below article set was written for ArchiCAD 10 when PlotMaker became integrated into ArchiCAD. I think most of the methods and considerations still hold true.
http://www.archicadwiki.com/Archicad%2010/Project%20Migration

[Anonymous]

OK Matty

You got me. You took your valuable time to find one of my 60-odd posts that indicated to some other knucklehead that he may be disregarding some great advice and chucking a tantrum at the same time. Good one Sherlock.

And now you are giving Ben (who besides being a respecting member is, from what I can tell, a Brit living in New Zealand, not a kiwi himself) some grief! Yeah - you're doing well to help yourself.

So now we know where we're at, I think we can just let you languish in your own migratory anxiety, while the rest of us happily work in AC12. I needn't prove myself to you any more than the others invloved in this post. You were offered excellent advice and you ignored it. So knock yourself out, or dig yourself out as the case may be, but you probably won't hear much from me again.

Good luck with your internship there at hmmm, either CUH2A (which I doubt) or Gilchrist & Crowe or McCleary German or Orcutt Winslow (probably if your location is true - it's a small community my friend). The rest of us will push on with diligence and integrity, whilst sympathetically watching the weaker fall by the wayside.

I do hope you find the answers to your questions, but you're making it tough on yourself, regardless. I just hope you don't serve Matthew Lohden, James Murray or Dwight the same garbage, or else you'll be feeling the cool winds of isolation for sure.

Best of luck to you.

Hunter.

[matthewjj]

Hunter. Please read the comments before posting. I didn't ask for ANY advice regarding migration to AC12. The reason why I asked someone to post a "detailed answer to the question about best practices for version migration" was for the sake of others who might be reading this thread. My AC12 transition went very smoothly. I was hoping that something useful and on topic might be posted. Instead we've got people crawling out of the woodwork trying to pick fights.

[Dennis Lee]

matt, the "poor" Jim seems to have got his problem solved already on the first page, until you offered another advice. I think your advice is ok (although kind of off-topic since Jim's question was only about favorites and libraries), except that you used a wrong terminology "template" in that post, which you already admitted it was a term that you loosely used instead of the official term used in ArchiCAD. Since you and the other psters were obviously talking about different things, there were disagreements.

What I don't understand is, why do you, after admitting that you were using the term template unrelated to the way it is used in ArchiCAD, keep asking the other posters for explanation on why they disagreed w/ you??? We are all students of this software, and we all appreciate everyone's input here - but please understand that your misuse of the term template caused all the misunderstandings here, and let it be.

For the record, I do like to migrate my template file from version to version - which includes all the attributes, favorites, views, publisher, model view options, layers, layer combos, etc., but I do start my work environments from scratch (until I research how to show "all new commands" I read somewhere).