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Massive Problem with Autosave - lost days of work!!!!!!!!!!!

March 20, 2016, 9:25 pm
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Author:mbeam
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:25 am (GMT+1)


Barry Kelly wrote:
you really have no-one to blame but yourself.

Don't rely on auto-save.



I know.

And I won't. Seems at my age I would have learned by now never rely on anything.
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Massive Problem with Autosave - lost days of work!!!!!!!!!!!

March 21, 2016, 1:46 am
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Author:laszlonagy
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:46 am (GMT+1)


I think it is a very good and useful habit to get into to just press CTRL+S periodically, no matter what program you use, be it Word, Excel or ARCHICAD.
Computers, operating systems, applications are capricious. They make mistakes just as the people who created them do.
It is never to late to get yourself into a good working pattern.
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Massive Problem with Autosave - lost days of work!!!!!!!!!!!

March 21, 2016, 4:26 am
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Author:sboydturner
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:26 pm (GMT+1)


If you only have 8 Gb of free space on your drive you are going to get many issues, the operating system and programs you use require space for writing cache files, working files etc let alone trying to manage the drive and bad sectors etc.
I would be worried if a drive was ever more than 80% full.
How is your backup? You should be able to recover from you backups. If you are not backing up you should, this is your livelihood and ideally have two copies one stored off site.
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Massive Problem with Autosave - lost days of work!!!!!!!!!!!

March 21, 2016, 4:42 am
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Author:laszlonagy
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:42 pm (GMT+1)


Scott has a point.
Let us just consider the case of Virtual memory. Maybe it is set by the system by default to, lets say, 16384-32768 MB, which is 16-32 GB. Initially it may occupy the lower limit of this range, 16 GB from the space available on your hard drive.
Then, let's say, ARCHICAD and other programs require a lot of RAM, so it increases the size of the 16 GB of Virtual RAM to more by occupying more of your drive free space. This way your 8 GB of RAM can run out very easily and fast. Then you suddenly have no space on your hard drive.

So it is advisable to have ample amount of space on your drives, the 80% Scott mentions is probably a good point to start looking at ways to free up space.
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Massive Problem with Autosave - lost days of work!!!!!!!!!!!

March 21, 2016, 10:21 am
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Author:mbeam
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:21 pm (GMT+1)


I was really hoping someone would say, "did you check this obscure folder cause archicad does that."

Yes, I agree, it's entirely my fault. I have paid for it in spades.

Regardless, when I restarted Archicad the first time after the reboot, the autosave came up with the project and I selected it, then Archicad threw up the error that it couldn't run in the 8 gigs free (it was the only thing running after a fresh reboot) and then promptly shut down again. That's when it decided to clear the autosave. Had it not cleared the autosave and instead rolled the previous autosave in a rolling save for say, like the last 20 autosaves, then the autosave would have been much more useful to me.
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ArchiCad18 Cinerender crash and huge disc space lost

March 22, 2016, 2:35 am
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Author:Fulci
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:35 am (GMT+1)


Hi all! I had Archicad calculating a rendering using Cinerender and it crashed, probably because of not enough free space. I had around 30GB free space in the hard drive of my Macbook Pro and after it crashed I only have 2Gb free. I tried to locate with Finder any file larger than 1Gb and files created yesterday and it doesn't give any results. Diagnosis tells me I'm only using 8Gb virtual memory.

Does Cinerender store cache files somewhere for calculations which didn't get to erase or is there any place to configure virtual memory?

It gets really sluggish with so low disc space.
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Model moving extremely slow

March 22, 2016, 11:15 am
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Author:KellyKDH
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:15 pm (GMT+1)


Our office is working on a 19,000 sf under roof house and the file size is 67,867 KB. It was moving a little slower than some of our other houses (expected because it's larger), but after I curved a couple of the exterior walls that have windows and doors it has been moving slower than a slug through peanut butter. I even changed the walls from complex to a composite hoping that would take some complexity out of the model, but still moving slow. For example, to move 1 door and 1 window to a different angle along the curved wall is took 20 min to select and wait then move and wait, then deselect, etc... Not sure why it's this painfully slow, has anyone had a similar issue?
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Archicad gets stuck...only in the first hours of the morning

March 23, 2016, 12:23 am
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Author:alemanda
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:23 am (GMT+1)


Hi,
It's a week that I get a strange behaviouor of Archicad 19.
I'm working on a project and AC19 gets stuck (hang?) once every (approx) 40min only in the first 2 hours of the morning ... after a period (2 hours approximately) it continues working properly without any issue ...

So strange!
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Model moving extremely slow

March 23, 2016, 1:00 pm
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Author:laszlonagy
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:00 pm (GMT+1)


Just today I came across this article about SEOs and how they can slow down the project tremendously if not done properly.
You could read it and see if that helps you solve the issue:

https://wwabim.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/solid-element-operator-errors/
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Model moving extremely slow

March 23, 2016, 3:36 pm
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Author:patmay81
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:36 pm (GMT+1)


Kelly,

SEO's are generally the biggest contributor to slow files, in my opinion. One test would be to save out a separate pln and remove all operators/targets. If the file runs smoothly, thats the culprit.

The second thing to look at is the total polygons in the model. Depending on your platform/hardware, a high polycount can bog things down tremendously. I wrote another post, testing polygons on BIMx and found they had a bigger impact on ARCHICAD: https://wwabim.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/bimx-file-sizepolygon-tollerances/
Note that these tests were done on a brand new iMac, so if your hardware is even remotely antiquated, don't expect to get anywhere near 10 million polygons and function at all!

The third thing I look for on slow files is the library manager. Make sure you do not have excessive duplicate (or missing) objects. Make sure objects and images saved to the embedded library are as small as possible. A few 20mb png's attached to over a significant portion of the modeled surfaces can slow things down. Here are my thoughts on library management: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/archicad-library-management-best-practices-patrick-may?trk=prof-post

Other suggestions that improve file speed/efficiency are the project map and layout book; clean them up and pare them down wherever possible. Files can grow a long stack of unused independent markers in the project map if left unchecked. This is very unlikely the cause of your 20 minute pauses, but these items are the list of checks that should be made first.
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Model moving extremely slow

March 24, 2016, 9:35 am
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Author:KellyKDH
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:35 pm (GMT+1)


Thank you both for your great suggestions! I tried all that was suggested and still turned up with a slow file Confused So I had talked to Graphisoft support this morning and turns out they will need to submit it to the developers.
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Screen Display Issue

April 4, 2016, 3:37 am
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Author:KatalinBorszeki
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:37 am (GMT+1)


Hi All, we have contacted Michael about the issue and as it turns out the problem appeared because of a missing font on the Master Layouts. Replacing the font solved his problem. best,
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Screen Display Issue

April 4, 2016, 5:45 am
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Author:laszlonagy
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:45 pm (GMT+1)


That is a strange manifestation for a missing font. Smile

Regardless, thanks Katalin for letting the community know about the resolution of the issue.
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Patch Objects Version issue

April 4, 2016, 11:49 pm
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Author:luisfmoreira
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:49 am (GMT+1)


Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the patch tool and the objects it creates: I work in archicad 19 and I've sent a file to an office that is still on Archicad 17, I've converted from 19 -> 18 and 18 -> 17 and made an archive with AC 17.

The problem is that the patches don't convert using this method. Is there a way to convert the patches (.gsm files) to older versions?

Kind regards,
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Patch Objects Version issue

April 5, 2016, 1:40 am
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Author:Barry Kelly
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:40 am (GMT+1)


Are the patch objects stored in the 'Embedded' library?
I think if they are they get converted back as you 'save as' for the older versions.
If they are in a separate library they definitely won't.

I am not 100% sure on this though.

Barry.
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Patch Objects Version issue

April 5, 2016, 4:20 am
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Author:Erwin Edel
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:20 pm (GMT+1)


The quickest way to save back objects is through embedded library, I would say. Not even sure if you can save them back easily by opening them all one by one, but that will take more time. Once you are in the 17 file, you can then save the embedded objects to a folder again.
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Keyboard shortcuts problem

April 6, 2016, 3:53 am
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Author:grand106
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:53 am (GMT+1)


Sir Takis huge respect Very HappyVery Happy
i was a little late to respond to your fast reply cause i havent actually made a custom profile for myself (i wasnt sure what and where to reload) so i only had to reload the standard profile .
and yes everything worked as normal (shortcuts ad stuff)
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Polygon is degenerated (VT-1)

April 9, 2016, 3:52 pm
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Author:Lela1
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 11:52 pm (GMT+1)


Hi everybody. I´ ve made this logo in profile manager and every time I try to change surface or height I get this error message that says "Polygon is degenerated (VT-1)". Does anyone know how I can fix this? Is this maybe because the letters of the logo in the complex profile aren´ t attached to each other? Thanks
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Polygon is degenerated (VT-1)

April 12, 2016, 2:23 am
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Author:shtarkel
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:23 am (GMT+1)


Yes, they should be connected! ArhiCAD is not a logo program so it is easier to use CorelDRAW? Smile
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Polygon is degenerated (VT-1)

April 12, 2016, 2:33 am
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Author:Erwin Edel
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:33 am (GMT+1)


Break it down in to a profile for each letter to see which of the fills is the culprit. You probably have some self intersecting curve or the likes going on.
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