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Hi 

there is sometimes this kind of 3D visualition issues

i just want to how to fix it properly

thank you

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Karl Ottenstein
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Any time you see a checkerboard pattern like that it means that the surface texture associated with that element is missing.   Click on the slab and examine the settings.

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To enhance what Karl has said, the texture image file needs to be in your loaded libraries.

Check the surface settings to see what it should be or you should see a warning in the Library Manager.

 

Barry.

 

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Hi 

Thanks for your answers.  But i don't relly know in wich part of the surface setting i can fix it. However when i check the libraries setting this is what i see

 

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So please i would like to know how to have the same vizualisation that is in others versions

You seem to have a mixture of languages in your libraries.

You have 'Archicad Library 25' and the 'Archicad Migration Libraries' - I assume these are INT language.

You then have 'Bibliotheque Archicad 19' which is a different language and has not been loaded properly (hence it is 'missing').

My guess is that the missing surface texture images are in that library.

 

Whatever language your Bibliotheque library is from, you should probably be loading the Bibliotheque Library 25 and the corresponding migration libraries, then you will not need to load Bibliotheque Library 19 at all.

 

Barry.

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Hi

excuse me but i didn't really understand what to do in your last paragraph. 

My concern is to know how to handle effectivly such a situation. 

 

Sometimes this is not due to using a element of old version of archicad, it happens even if i start a projet with recent version of archicad 

You need to find and load 'Bibliotheque Archicad 19'.

 

It is not ideal to mix libraries from various languages as it can create problems with duplicates of objects and macros.

Unless you are happy to to that.

That is what I was suggesting in my last paragraph, load only the libraries from one language.

But if you do that now and you have used any objects from the INT library, they will become missing instead.

 

Barry.

 

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Hi

i'm still dealing with the same issue, but this time without using different libraries objects. These are some object that i downloaded and add to my project that i'm concepting with archicad23. So that's how it displays sometimes, so pls help me to know how to properly handle this issue

B_Migito
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La Bibliothèque ArchiCAD 19 qui a été initialement utilisée avec le projet est manquante (c'est une bibliothèque française)

Il faut que tu demandes à la personne qui t'a passé le fichier du projet de te transférer la bibliothèque manquante. 

Sachant que tu utilises ArchiCAD 25, tu auras de nombreuses textures manquantes venant de ArchiCAD 19.

Pour ton cas, le plus simple est de changer les textures des objets qui ont le motif en damier

 

Dans l'image jointe, tu verras un exemple de ce que je veux dire par texture manquante dans ton projet 

 

English.

You're missing the ArchiCAD 19 library which was used initially in the project file. It's the french version of the library by the way. 

You should ask the owner of the file to send you their library or make a .pla version of the project.

Since you're using ArchiCAD 25, the easiest would be to change the texture of checkerboard pattern objects so that they're using surfaces in the ArchiCAD 25 library 

 

In the picture below is an exemple of texture linked to a surface. This is what is missing in your project 


IMG-20250107-WA0000.jpg

Hello

I really appreciate you using all means to help me. But what I was trying to clarify is that the project I sent images for is started and still being designed by Archicad 23. The second thing is that those objects I sent screenshots for are downloaded from "Archibase". So when I put them in my project, it shows up as you can see, even when I try to change the texture.

 

Thanks again for your help and I hope you can help me more.

 

Ps: I am not as good at Archicad as you guys are, so please, if there are any basic things I need to know or steps I can follow, let me know. Thanks