My Boathouse Hotlinked it's self into it's self

[Anonymous]

What do you think about that?

Is there a quick key that you can accidently hit?

I don't understand how we "accidntally" did this.
The file was wonderful oneday, and the next we opened the .pln file we were in before, and the whole file had become a hotlinked module with-in it's self.

And it wasn't like there was a hotlink of the file, as well as the original file information. Just the entire model had turned into a hotlink, and was in the hotlink manager with the .pln file name but as a module.

We discovered that we could just break the link and life was good again.

Just curious if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone knows why it happened?

[Thomas Holm]

I don't have Archicad handy at the moment, but I seem to recall that the current master file (the one you're in) is always at the top in AC12's Hotlink manager's hierarchical hotlink list.

[Anonymous]

Hi Tom.
Yes, you're right, it is, however that isn't a module it seems just to be the top of the tree that the modules will be under.
so I had the filename at the top there, and then underneith it was my hotlinked boathouse.

[Nick Schat]

The file was wonderful oneday, and the next we opened the .pln file we were in before, and the whole file had become a hotlinked module with-in it's self.

It sounds like a nested module problem, correct me if I'm wrong.

I recently experienced a similar problem in AC10 where I have the mainfile linked into the module file for reference purposes. As long as you have the skip nested module checked this works fine.

The problem occurred while having a module selected & right mouse clicking to update module it switched off the checkmark to skip nested modules all by itself. However when I updated the modules via hotlink manager all remains sweet. I suspect a bug??

Regards