Update Hotlinks in multistory model, Stories Vanish AC11

[Anonymous]

Hi folks,

I'm testing out AC11 before for my office, before installing it on our machines and moving our files over. And I've hit a glitch:

We've got an 5 story project, which we have separate PLNs for each floor, and then I've built a "Full building" model importing Hotlinks of all the stories. (We found this easier than Teamwork. Go ask Andyro). In AC10, it worked fine. Here's what happens in AC11:

1. Open file. All stories present. Decline updating Hotlinks. I confirm various stories are present.

2. I open HL mgr, and update all hotlinks, and then i have only 1 story. My hotlinks are still loaded, but not placed.

I suppose I can try merging it into a new file, but, anyone know something about 11's hotlinking that might help?

Thanks in advance.

-Nathan in New York

[TomWaltz]

IT's not just multi-story hotlinks. It seems to be a bug with Modules in general.

[Anonymous]

I did a little more testing, and even rebuilt the multistory model from scratch to see if it would behave differently. No change, updating modules leads to the deletion of all stories.

Am I misplaced in expressing my shock at GS for releasing AC11 with this bug? I can't believe it was unknown to them.

I wonder how anyone who does any tower project could be using current version of software now.

-Nathan

[TomWaltz]

I'm not seeing it all the time. It's very sporadic for me, maybe 1 in 15. I don't remember seeing this bug in the Beta Test, though I was not doing a lot of hotlinks, so it could have gotten by me.

[Anonymous]

I did some testing of hotlinks and didn't run into this (still haven't seen it myself) but I wasn't using any big multistory projects.

[Chazz]

Nathan wrote:
...updating modules leads to the deletion of all stories.

Ouch!

Archicad: the (singe story) Virtual Building Solution

[TomWaltz]

It doesn't really delete ALL stories, just all except the current one 😉

[Rick Thompson]

It might be behaving like linked external files from another pln. The external files need to be saved in AC11 also. If not, they want maintain the link.

[Anonymous]

Upon further testing, it seems that when the individual PLNs are saved as AC11 files, the stories remain intact on update.

So beware of nested modules from previous versions, they might bring your project to the ground.

Thanks for the note on placed drawings as well.

[Rick Thompson]

This was something that drove me nuts in beta testing. I kept reporting that I couldn't maintain the links, but GS could not "duplicate" it, so it went unresolved.. "and now we know the rest of the story".

GS.. please make note of this and I did send in a report when it dawned on me what was actually happening, but after AC11 was released.