List of Improvements in Archicad 19 and BIMcloud 19 Updates Issues solved in Archicad 19 Update and BIMcloud 19 Update
List of Improvements in Archicad 19 and BIMcloud 19 Updates
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 223773 BIM Server/CRASH: The update installer of BIM Server crashed, if the admin user’s name contained non ASCII (e.g.: é) characters.
- 197066 BIMcloud/BIM Server: The daily backup of the Manager database was not guaranteed.
- 220872 CRASH: Archicad might not start if its installation harddrive’s name contained a special character.
- 217614 DOCUMENT: In some cases, the Renovation Filters could appear reversed compared to the View.
- 223107 DOCUMENT: The Project Info Given Name Field couldn’t be filled in using a JPN Archicad version.
- 219623 DOCUMENT/HOTLINK/CRASH: A hotlinked file using Renovation Filters not included in the host file caused a crash.
- 172547 FILE/DWG: In certain cases, the DWG translator could become duplicated when the Translation Setup was opened.
- 203092 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Xrefs lost the link to the source DWG once they were exported from Archicad to a DWG.
- 219887 FILE/MODEL/FREEZE: Walls with complex profiles could cause Archicad to freeze during zooming on Floor Plan.
- 222939 HOTLINK/CRASH: Multiple Hotlinks using the same name but different paths caused Archicad to crash.
- 215603 MODEL/CRASH: Rebuilding Detail from Source View caused Archicad to crash if Elevation/Section was completely outside the detail boundary but touching the the Detail Marker polygon.
- 93860 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: It was not possible to re-share a project using the same name as the original.
- 219452 TEAMWORK/DOCUMENT/CRASH: Deletion of unreserved changes in Change Manager caused a crash.
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 216288 BIM Server/BIMcloud/DOCUMENT: Deleted Interior Elevation segments could re-appear in the Project Map after sharing the PLN file as a Teamwork project.
- 206874 BIM Server/BIMcloud: User Activities were not up-to-date even after multiple refreshes.
- 216868 BIMcloud/BIM Server/Crash: In certain cases, it was possible for the Server to crash when multiple clients were authenticating.
- 215202 BIMcloud/BIM Server: The Manager did not limit the number of login attempts.
- 217020 BIMcloud: LDAP synchronization failed when an empty custom field was present.
- 219377 BIMcloud: It was possible for users granted only view permission to modify their own group settings.
- 218688 BIMcloud: Performance suffered due to a memory allocation routine that slowly served multiple competing threads.
- 195396 BIMcloud: Projects were not listed correctly on the Manager when ordering was done by Host Server.
- 198661 BIMcloud: The correct number of used licenses was not always displayed in the BIMcloud Manager.
- 173999 BIMcloud: The group name in some cases covered action buttons.
- 217924 BIMcloud: The permission summary column available with the detailed permissions method had refresh problems. A new access rule only appeared after the save button had been pressed.
- 198528 BIMcloud: The warning message about unsaved changes was confusing.
- 216894 CRASH: Archicad Some drawings with cropped views of the model crashed the drawing update.
- 184308 DOCUMENT: Display of the wall-column connection on the layout was different from the source view.
- 215695 DOCUMENT: In certain cases, the layout was not consistent with the source view.
- 211094 EDIT: Combined usage of pan and zoom gave unexpected results.
- 206625 EDIT: Copy and Paste sometimes did not work on Mac.
- 217105 FILE/DWF/EXPORT: In some cases, grid elements were not exported to DWF.
- 214802 FILE/DWG/EXPORT/CRASH: Certain linetypes (Regenwater, Afvalwater, FEC 110) crashed Archicad when layouts were published to DWG.
- 216743 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Section story level markers didn’t export into DWG/DWF from Worksheets.
- 214791 FILE/IFC/CRASH: A crash resulted, if an IFC parameter referenced a missing library part.
- 214661 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: A rotated survey point corrupted the IFC Solibri model view.
- 214385 FILE/OPEN/FREEZE: Vectorial fills containing zero length lines caused Archicad to freeze.
- 213881 FILE/PLN/CRASH: Archicad crashed from a degenerated plane roof.
- 213835 FILE/PLN: Migration process of section/elevations was poorly optimized. The result was that large projects took unnecessarily too long to migrate.
- 217984 FILE/PMK: Occasionally publication to PMKs included elements that were not in their source views.
- 215733 FILE/USER INTERFACE: Checkboxes couldn’t be activated by clicking on them, when their text was displayed in multiple lines.
- 216997 GDL: Certain doors could appear with the wrong color of fill on the floor plan.
- 212270 GDL: It was impossible in Archicad to download content from BIMcomponents.com if a proxy server was used.
- 216867 MODEL/DOCUMENTATION: Layout and source view could be different in particular cases.
- 214462 MODEL/FREEZE: In certain cases, grid elements caused slowness in 2D zoom/pan.
- 215248 MODEL/FREEZE: Use of the shadow casting setting in 3D sketch view caused Archicad to freeze.
- 202949 SPEED: Navigation (panning and zooming) in 2D windows could become very slow if a large number of splines were displayed.
- 214554 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Incomplete backup files were not removed from file system if backup operation failed.
- 204281 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Messages could not be sent and users were not visible due to mailboxes.db corruption on the server.
- 219811 TEAMWORK/DOCUMENT: Parts of the dimension could disappear in Teamwork, if some of their points were moved and the changes were sent and received.
- 217076 TEAMWORK: A reason was addressed for a false warning of an error occurring during the last Teamwork operation.
- 215602 TEAMWORK: Modifications of dimension elements with missing links resulted in error message during send & receive.
- 143514 VIEW: Shadows of edges shorter than 1cm in 3D could be noisy in OpenGL.
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 216266 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: The process of publishing .dwg files from Archicad could become slower than in previous Updates.
- 216009 TEAMWORK/FILE/OPEN: In some cases when storing external drawings on a MAC fileserver, Archicad could continuously ask for authentication information or show the drawings as Missing in the Drawing Manager.
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 212265 BIM Server: The Blobcache grew unreasonably large.
- 212313 BIM Server: The time the BIM Server locked out users during a join was bandwidth sensitive.
- 203392 BIM Server/BIMcloud: BIMcloud had in certain cases a request processing anomaly.
- 206340 BIMcloud/BIM Server: Restored BIMProject backups were created in the project root.
- 192323 BIM Server/BIMcloud: A non-empty folder could not be deleted.
- 185916 BIM Server/BIMcloud: Archicad displayed an invalid certificate error message in case of a secure (HTTPS) connection to the BIM Server/BIMcloud although the certification was valid.
- 205249 BIM Server/BIMcloud: It was not possible to search on login names or emails.
- 208996 BIM Server/BIMcloud: Users who had been forced out from the project were still listed as joined.
- 206059 BIMcloud: PLN backup occasionally was significantly younger than what the BIM Manager reported.
- 196267 BIMcloud: User list export had usability problems.
- 211896 BIMcloud: CALs could get stuck with users, not showing them on the Licenses tab of the Manager.
- 210654 BIMcloud: Manager imported users with empty names if neither First name nor Last name was filled in Active Directory.
- 212526 BIMcloud: Manager project duplication failed if the project name already existed. The project path was not used to distinguish projects only the project name.
- 213760 BIMcloud: Manager-Server synchronisation schedule could cause performance problems in certain cases.
- 206053 BIMcloud: The Last date of BIMcloud backup and/or PLN backup occasionally were wrong.
- 210929 CRASH: In some cases, Archicad crashed when a new Renovation Filter was created.
- 208363 DOCUMENT: If the default settings of the line tool were changed to have arrowheads then the chart lines of schedules had arrowheads in Print or PDF export.
- 212199 DOCUMENT: Labels appeared on the layout although their associated elements were not visible on the Layout.
- 175275 DOCUMENT: The subtitles of Sun Studies (and Construction Simulations) were written on the frames instead of saving them as a separate file.
- 198857 DOCUMENT/FREEZE: In certain cases adding an IFC property to the interactive schedules could freeze Archicad.
- 208540 EDIT: Texts were cut off at the bottom when Leading percent was set lower than 100%.
- 212981 EDIT: The Parameter Transfer function did not work correctly for Polylines if their type was Arrowhead End or Arrowhead Both.
- 212319 EDIT: Zone number was not displayed in the Zone Update dialog in certain cases.
- 196011 FILE/3DS/IMPORT: In some cases, Archicad crashed while importing 3DS format.
- 208346 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: DWG saved from 3D window contained only the name of the Grid element, not the axis itself.
- 212874 FILE/3DS/IMPORT: Rhinoceros models with Feet and Inch units was imported into Archicad with the wrong scale.
- 209649 FILE/BIMx/EXPORT: Some items of the hyper-model were missing after upload if the Info Set was “Undefined”.
- 203533 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: An object label was mirrored in a DWG if the object was mirrored in Archicad.
- 208818 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Certain types of texts on the layouts overlapped each other in the exported DWG.
- 147150 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Individual Morph edges were not saved to 3D DWGs.
- 212311 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Labels without a frame got a frame in the exported DWG file.
- 211217 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Some labels with pointers were dislocated in the exported DWG.
- 209056 FILE/DWG/IMPORT: In some cases it was impossible to merge the content of a DWG’s Paper Space onto the layout of an Archicad project.
- 207043 FILE/IFC/EXPORT/CRASH: In certain cases it was not possible to export an IFC file without Archicad crashing.
- 208283 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Certain revolved complex profiled walls/beams were missing from IFC imported projects.
- 208404 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: MEP elements were dislocated after the import of the IFC file if during IFC export in Revit (with Revit Add-In) Angle to True North option was used.
- 212766 FILE/OPEN: Files with very large data stored in Section/Elevation could not be opened.
- 210331 FILE/OPEN/CRASH: Certain files could crash on open because of corrupted Interior Elevation markers.
- 212504 FILE/OPEN/CRASH: QuickLookSatellite could crash on macOS when opening an Archicad 19 project file in Archicad 20.
- 209082 FILE/STL/IMPORT/CRASH: Importing an .stl file into Archicad could cause a crash.
- 208206 FILE/XYZ/IMPORT/FREEZE: Large Meshes created from .xyz surveyor data were slow to navigate and edit.
- 212511 FREEZE: In certain cases missing fonts caused a freeze in Archicad.
- 203964 GDL: Door Orientation went wrong if one injected other door’s parameters into it.
- 208014 GDL: Window 17 and Door 17 were missing from the Archicad Library.
- 210434 HOTLINK: Files converted from IFC could not be hotlinked into another file.
- 209068 HOTLINK: In certain cases when hotlinked modules were placed on a worksheet, the offset location of the modules were incorrect.
- 208690 MODEL: A symbolically displayed door with a window above it was displayed incorrectly in plan.
- 208699 MODEL: 3D openGL window performance (selection,editing,panning) was negatively affected by large surface textures.
- 212063 MODEL: In some cases, 3D navigation and editing was slower in Archicad 19 than in Archicad 18.
- 204650 MODEL: It was not possible to click during creating elements in 3D.
- 210467 MODEL: The “Participates in the Collision Detection” checkbox did not work for Mesh and Morph elements.
- 205709 MODEL: There were issues with representation of Custom Symbol Fills.
- 197704 MODEL: When a Library Object with textures was converted to Morph, the textures disappeared in the process.
- 201175 MODEL/DOCUMENT: In case of certain files shadows did not update on Layouts however they changed on the Layout’s source View.
- 190606 MODEL/EDIT: The 3D Cutaway function could cause a high load on the processor of the machine.
- 213459 MODEL/FILE: Certain files could become corrupt when 3D cutting plane was placed “far from origin” on the Floor Plan.
- 210895 SPEED: Panning and zooming was slower than in Archicad 18 on floor plans with a large number of symbol fills.
- 211582 TEAMWORK: Archicad could not handle protocols in the proxy bypass list.
- 209061 TEAMWORK: Constant connection messages displayed while working remotely.
- 212896 TEAMWORK: It was possible to create a Support Package even if no project was selected.
- 210644 TEAMWORK: Projects could not be shared from computers which had special Unicode characters on Windows.
- 213385 TEAMWORK: Send and Receive was impossible after creating public Criteria Set with Property criteria.
- 206147 TEAMWORK: Storing custom Pen Set right after project share could cause send&receive error.
- 200499 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: If the Delta Cache could not access the BIMcloud Server, but Archicad could, Archicad downloaded data directly from the server instead of displaying an error message.
- 212912 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud/BIM Server: In rare situations, Project Administrators could not share projects.
- 201318 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud/BIMx: Apply View command did not bring the camera to the required position after receiving a message with 3D capture from BIMx.
- 211095 TEAMWORK/HOTLINK: Hotlink update could be slow depending on the project structure.
- 211206, 212751: USER INTERFACE/FREEZE: During an element edit if a pet palette dialog was on a secondary display, the Menu Bar of Archicad could flicker/flash.
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 202153 BIM Server: A Project folder rename failed with “Error code 13” when it contained a Project file that had its database missing.
- 197849 BIM Server: Activation screen did not present scroll bar on demand.
- 208215 BIM Server: In rare cases BIMProject backups couldn’t be restored by the BIM Server.
- 202358 BIM Server: In some cases after an unclean shutdown the BIM Server/BIMcloud Monitoring service could not start up. As a result, it erroneously showed the BIM Server/BIMcloud modules in a Stopped state.
- 200024 BIMcloud/BIM Server: An inappropriate error message was given when a backup from older version was attempted to be restored.
- 208525 BIMcloud/BIM Server: Automatic PLN backup name was “undefined”.
- 205377 BIMcloud/CRASH: There was a crash with the BIMcloud Monitor on OS X showed all the components as stopped.
- 197116 BIMcloud: A revoked permission could have granted view access to almost all projects.
- 203286 BIMcloud: A tab character was accepted as part of a name in the Manager’s new user form.
- 168120 BIMcloud: Additional LDAP sync error messages could not be displayed with a double click.
- 196549 BIMcloud: BIMcloud Manager could end up in a non-responsive state if there were not enough BIMcloud Server licenses available.
- 203128 BIMcloud: If a BIMcloud manager already managed more than 100 projects it was not possible to pair the Manager with a new server unless the user pairing the server was the masteradmin user.
- 203963 BIMcloud: If Server was not accessible the Manager could get into an unresponsive state requiring a restart.
- 205891 BIMcloud: IP addresses with the 443 port number forced HTTPS protocol.
- 201646 BIMcloud: LDAP preview did not report errors in query entry correctly.
- 201647 BIMcloud: LDAP query could be syntactically correct with a non-empty return set, but not display that set due to an undisclosed error.
- 204536 BIMcloud: LDAP was not able to support query strings longer than 1024 characters. With this fix it will support strings up to 3070 characters.
- 203285 BIMcloud: Leading whitespace was not trimmed from name entry.
- 194647 BIMcloud: The BIMcloud Manager did not always show the correct status of the BIMcloud Server.
- 197090 BIMcloud: The BIMcloud manager did not display role names always consistently throughout the interface.
- 198661 BIMcloud: The correct number of used licenses was not always displayed in the BIMcloud Manager.
- 201286 BIMcloud: The resultant duplicate of a locked project was not locked.
- 203415 BIMx/CRASH: BIMx could crash during start-up on Mac OSX 10.10 and 10.11 if CodeMeter driver was of version 6.10a.
- 201051 BIMx/DOCUMENT: Archicad changed the Autotexts on Layouts when it exported a BIMx Hyper-model documentation.
- 209543 CRASH: Adding migration libraries resulted in freeze and memory leak on Mac.
- 202381 CRASH: Archicad crashed when saving a View from 3D with a named rendering scene.
- 201693 CRASH: Archicad crashed when trying to place a new window if certain IFC properties were displayed in the marker of the default window settings.
- 201894 DOCUMENT/CRASH: Detail window dimension entry in certain cases caused a crash.
- 204726 DOCUMENT/CRASH: In certain cases a project crashed when opening the Book Settings.
- 206474 DOCUMENT/EDIT: Dimension points disappeared when the current View was refreshed.
- 192078 DOCUMENT/GDL/EDIT: Injecting parameters into Interior Elevations at times caused incorrect floor plan Marker display.
- 204124 DOCUMENT/PLOT: The connection status of a plotter in a MAC environment in certain cases remained on “not defined yet.”
- 206320 DOCUMENT/SCHEDULE/CRASH: Archicad 19 HUN crashed if the scheme used the criterion “Library Part Name” and “does not contain.”
- 202928 DOCUMENT/SCHEDULE: If new Library Part parameters were added, existing IFC parameters would be removed.
- 186905 DOCUMENT: In a few cases Schedule and Zone Area values were erroneously rounded.
- 205087 DOCUMENT: It was impossible to rename the ID of the Layout folders.
- 201544 DOCUMENT: Master Layout of a teamwork file could not be imported into another file using the Organizer when the file had non-reserved Hotlinks in it.
- 196514 DOCUMENT: New layouts were not created in the selected folder of the Layout Book but on the same hierarchical level.
- 194564 DOCUMENT: The background fill of Texts was not the same color on Layouts as it was in the View Map.
- 196961 DOCUMENT: There have been various smaller issues with the FIEBDC exchange goodie.
- 194829 EDIT/CRASH: Adding skins to certain composite structures at times caused Archicad to crash.
- 204080 EDIT: Active snap guides in an inactive instance of Archicad could lead to a memory leak.
- 206597 EDIT: Archicad crashed when copy-pasting Mark-Up elements that contained a polyline.
- 130300 EDIT: Element ID value of MEP objects was not growing when multiple instances were placed in a row.
- 196894 EDIT: Find & Select could not list and find gradient fills.
- 197434 EDIT: Magic Wand falsely used hidden layer elements when it created fills on Section/Elevation.
- 204685 EDIT: The explode process in certain cases created invalid elements.
- 202254 EDIT: Thickness of a composite slab was not recalculated if the used composite structure was deleted and replaced.
- 195999 EDIT: When the Quick Option Palette was active, the mouse flickered while creating Snap Guides and Points on a trace and reference layer.
- 203317 FILE/DWF/EXPORT: During DWF export some randomly selected drawings on the layout were exported with a solid color fill in the background.
- 204420 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Names of layouts were not exported as given in the Publisher Set if they were merged into one DWG file.
- 196462 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Object’s texts created block attributes named after a random library part parameter.
- 198539 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: The layout containing a rotated view exported incorrect coordinates to DWG output.
- 196218 FILE/DWG: When a text was created as a Block Reference in AutoCAD and it was imported as a GDL object into Archicad, the text wrap failed.
- 200927 FILE/EPX/EXPORT: After .epx file export the generated .bmp file was not removed.
- 196824 FILE/IFC/DOCUMENTATION: Schedules were not refreshed automatically when the IFC mapping was changed.
- 204509 FILE/IFC/EDIT/CRASH: Using the Eyedropper tool on a Door which had IFC properties mapped into its Door Stamp in certain cases caused a crash.
- 204846 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: Archicad crashed when saving IFC data with All BIM Parameters option checked.
- 171082 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Certain IFC roofs were imported incorrectly into Archicad.
- 202948 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Circular Columns imported from IFC files in certain cases displayed incorrect diameter values in their Settings Dialog.
- 197012 FILE/MERGE/DWG: The Scaling choice in the DWG merge dialog could only be confirmed with a mouse click. Enter failed to confirm the choice.
- 207169 FILE/OPEN/CRASH: Archicad 19 in some cases crashed when migrating a project from version 17.
- 198050 FILE/OPEN: In some cases when the server was offline, the opening of a PLN file – containing Hotlinks and Libraries located on the server- was slower than in the previous version.
- 193183 FILE/OPEN: It was impossible to shrink the open-save dialog in Windows 10.
- 207197 FILE/PRINT: In some cases a print to file resulted in a .prn file with a Chinese name.
- 195907 FILE/SAVE: The output of distinct pictures from 3D views placed on different layouts were overwritten by the first encountered picture during publication to DWG.
- 194867 FREEZE: Almost parallel/perpendicular edges of a roof caused a freeze in Archicad.
- 201947 GDL: GLOB_SCALE returned 0 with a newly created 3D document.
- 201236 GDL: Tags and Categories label did not offer all available properties in the Settings dialog under certain circumstances.
- 208589 HOTLINK: Hotlinks were missing on El Capitan, even though Finder showed them correctly.
- 203641 HOTLINK/CRASH: Archicad crashed because of certain corrupted hotlink data. Open&Repair now fixes these kind of corruptions.
- 204433 HOTLINK/FREEZE: The Hotlink Manager froze breaking hotlinks while the Change Manager dialog was open.
- 194809 HOTLINK: Hotlink Manager dialog sent too many requests to the BIM Manager severely burdening it.
- 203118 MODEL/EDIT: Editing Meshes was slow in certain cases.
- 197285 MODEL/EDIT: A zoom possible caused inaccurate display of trimmed lines.
- 202125 MODEL/EDIT: Complex Profiled beams with 0x0 height&width in certain cases caused a crash.
- 204524 MODEL/FREEZE: In some cases, a project froze because of curved walls.
- 195967 MODEL: Beams did not intersect if their floor plan projections were not exactly parallel.
- 203135 MODEL: Content of an already open Section was not recalculated if it contained a Door/Window that was not background multiprocessing compatible.
- 203787 MODEL: If the default layer for the StairMaker tool was missing a stair could not be modified.
- 203494 MODEL: Mesh selection and modification performance in the 3D window was not optimal.
- 203197 MODEL: Opening a Marqueed area in 3D was slow in certain cases.
- 203406 MODEL: Texture handling in special cases was slower in v19 than v18.
- 203408 MODEL: Texture rendering performance in the 3D window was not optimal.
- 202484 MODEL: The triangulation in PGON was invalid.
- 202279 RENDERING: Cinerender rendered a black picture if elements with faulty polygons were displayed in the scene.
- 202645 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: A reservation followed by an immediate release could result in difficulties with further teamwork operations.
- 198082 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: BIM Manager Project duplication did not always complete leaving a project that could not be joined.
- 181014 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Deleted users’ reservations might not have been released after user deletion, if network connection between BIMcloud Manager and BIMcloud Server was interrupted.
- 191635 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: The default .bimproject backup schedule was set to run every hour. The new default is to run every 4 hours.
- 204986 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Under certain circumstances modified attributes were not sent to the server and an error resulted.
- 201152 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/FREEZE: In certain cases Archicad could freeze at Teamwork project opening, if the user login credentials were incorrect.
- 204048 TEAMWORK/CRASH: A damaged mark-up in a file caused a crash on share.
- 205213 TEAMWORK/CRASH: If a section deleted from the server was referenced in a trace of the local client’s cache of the project, that client crashed on receiving the new server data.
- 204836 TEAMWORK/DOCUMENT: The name of an external drawing did not correctly transfer to its host project.
- 201144 TEAMWORK/FREEZE: Archicad TeamWork project could open very slowly if Energy Evaluation data had been added/modified in the project.
- 202993 TEAMWORK/HOTLINK: Label elements part of a no longer existing Hotlink module got locked.
- 207093 TEAMWORK/HOTLINK: Send and Receive was slow if Hotlink contained new composite attributes that were heavily used in the main project.
- 206063 TEAMWORK: A corrupt roof element prevented a project from being shared.
- 203447 TEAMWORK: A corrupt curtain wall element, that otherwise went unnoticed, prevented a project from functioning at all in a teamwork environment.
- 206259 TEAMWORK: A Door label that referenced a zone was not always up to date in a layout.
- 197029 TEAMWORK: Archicad in certain cases crashed when opening FloorPlan/Section/Elevation views.
- 198172 TEAMWORK: Network Diagnostic dialog presented inaccurate status occasionally.
- 205895 TEAMWORK: Network Diagnostic dialog was confusing.
- 205728 TEAMWORK: The background Teamwork message communication between Archicad and the server when was optimized.
- 206018 TEAMWORK: The message handling of Archicad was optimized.
- 200533 TEAMWORK: The Send and Receive performed poorly with Change Manager data in Hotlinks.
- 203393 TEAMWORK: User deletion and force leave process had performance issues.
- 203675 TEAMWORK: With certain projects Archicad could crash during a hotlink update.
- 200542 TEAMWORK: With some projects the Hotlink dialog could not be reserved.
- 193394 USER INTERFACE/GDL: ThermalTransmittance values were incorrectly changed to integers, if a comma was used as decimal separator instead of dot in the U-value of doors/windows.
- 202968 USER INTERFACE: A mounted file server on OS X 10.11 could cause the authentication dialog to pop up from time to time.
- 201627 USER INTERFACE: Building Material names were displayed incorrectly in drop-down menus in CHI and TAI language versions.
- 207640 USER INTERFACE: In the quick option palette the renovation filter option showed “Missing element.”
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
- 195865 API: It was not possible to change polygon info of a polygonal wall from API.
- 197402 BIMx: 3D model did not appear in BIMx hyper model, if double byte characters were part of the login name.
- 196342 BIMx: Limit navigation to gallery item didn’t work in desktop version.
- 196807 CRASH: Archicad could crash because of Morph elements placed into zones.
- 199056 CRASH: If Navigator Preview was open during a point cloud import to section, Archicad 19 crashed.
- 198395 DOCUMENT/CRASH: Archicad could crash with certain Interactive Schedule criteria.
- 191699 DOCUMENT/EDIT: The ‘Show Grid Elements’ option in the Settings Dialog of Interior Elevations was not stored after closing the dialog.
- 199166 DOCUMENT/FREEZE: Curtain Wall panel schedules could freeze with certain criteria in the Scheme Setup.
- 195044 DOCUMENT/MODEL: It was not possible to place Snap Guides to elements of a Traced&Referenced Drawing.
- 198921 DOCUMENT: Area by story for Morph elements was not listed properly.
- 199581 DOCUMENT: Certain 2-byte characters (e.g. the Japanese Character 合) couldn’t be entered into an Interactive Schedule Field.
- 197426 DOCUMENT: Certain Labels displayed ‘Undefined’ on Layouts while they displayed the necessary information correctly on View Map/Project Map.
- 198290 DOCUMENT: If the 3D window was wider than 2048 pixel, the texture background offset was different between render and 3D view.
- 198412 DOCUMENT: Interior Elevation drawings were updated every time you opened the layout they were on, even though nothing changed.
- 197723 DOCUMENT: The length of Dimension witness lines with certain settings changed when the dimension was moved.
- 197524 EDIT/CRASH: Archicad crashed because of Roof Thickness and Wall Thickness parameters in scheme setup.
- 198396 EDIT/CRASH: Editing reference line of polygonal wall with marquee caused a crash.
- 199861 EDIT/CRASH: In certain cases Archicad crashed when you tried to drag-a-copy of multiple selected elements in a Section/Elevation.
- 198253 EDIT: “Merge walls” function did not work.
- 197483 EDIT: Archicad 19 sometimes crashed after editing a text or a label.
- 200890 EDIT: External drawings and hotlinks – which were stored on a mounted drive – were missing from the project and could not be relinked or updated if at least one user modified the project on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
- 198073 EDIT: It wasn’t possible to select the Curtain Wall in the Section/Elevation view if the Floor Plan Display was set to Projected.
- 195863 EDIT: Size of the columns placed in Grid System could not be changed.
- 196927 EDIT: Switching from Marquee in 3D view to floorplan was slow if labels were in selection.
- 196919 EDIT: Switching from Marquee in 3D view to floorplan was slow in case grid elements were in selection.
- 198268 EDIT: The offset of Text frame appeared incorrectly after mirroring it.
- 194045 EDIT: Trace & Reference color could turn grey if the Reference Intensity was changed.
- 192460 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: Cut-Building Material Fills or Fills with transparent Background on a Worksheet, placed on a Layout were not exported.
- 196436 FILE/DWG/EXPORT/FREEZE: Archicad froze during DWG export if certain East-Asian Fonts were installed improperly.
- 196856 FILE/E57/IMPORT: Certain E57 Point Cloud Files could fail to import.
- 200762 FILE/IFC: the zone number attribute mapped as IFC name attribute could show invalid value in schedules.
- 195569 FILE/SAVE: When Archicad was closed the Save dialog information was misleading for rendered images.
- 198475 FREEZE: A special symbol Fill could cause performance problems.
- 197394 FREEZE: Archicad could freeze when the elements were placed far from the origin and the Snap Guides were turned on.
- 198083 FREEZE: Archicad 19 needed a lot of time to zoom in to certain fills.
- 198399 FREEZE: Archicad could freeze if a Fly-through was created with too many frames.
- 198737 FREEZE: In a special project the Copy/Paste was slower in Archicad 19 than in Archicad 16.
- 196223 GDL: Saving Door panels from the floor plan resulted in a wrong saved geometry.
- 199057 GDL: The SYMB_MIRRORED gdl command did not work in case of Curtain Wall panels.
- 198162 HOTLINK: In some cases when the Hotlink has been removed from the project some of the Dimensions of the Hotlink were not deleted.
- 198293 INSTALLER: The update installer was able to run again on an already updated Archicad.
- 201123 MODEL/FREEZE: Archicad could freeze if double byte characters were typed into the Story Settings.
- 196969 MODEL: 2D tree did not rotate automatically to continuously face the camera during fly-through.
- 197021 MODEL: Archicad 19 crashed when a zone was placed with Inner Edge geometry method.
- 198853 MODEL: Curtain wall frame could disappear if it was moved or stretched in Edit mode.
- 196700 MODEL: Insert a new camera after the selected one function did not work correctly. The new camera was always placed to the end of the path.
- 200230 MODEL: Look to Perpendicular of Clicked Surface used in 3D Window could occasionally cause the model to disappear.
- 197476 MODEL: Pan/Zoom could be slow if a fill’s Vectorial Hatching contained a lot of lines.
- 192060/199034 MODEL: Rotation of columns was wrong when certain files were exported to IFC (they were incorrectly rotated with -180 degrees).
- 199311 MODEL: Sun shadows were incorrect in case of Sketchup imported objects.
- 199098 MODEL: Wall Ends disappeared if the ‘Hide on Floor plan’ MVO setting of Windows was turned on.
- 195082 TEAMWORK: A click on the bounding box of an unreserved I/E marker caused Archicad to crash.
- 198722 TEAMWORK: Receive performance was optimized in the area of the drawing manager and project navigator data.
- 199250 TEAMWORK: Fly-Through could not be saved in Teamwork projects.
- 196747 TEAMWORK: In rare cases, the ‘Communicating with server’ dialog got stuck during the project opening process.
- 188214 TEAMWORK: Receive stability was improved in cases that involved section data.
- 196215 TEAMWORK: Sun Study could not be saved in Teamwork projects.
- 195904 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Support Package could not be created by BIMcloud Team Client.
- 196811 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: The ‘Relink Home Story’ function was missing from BIMcloud Team Client.
- 198717 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Scroll bar for search results in BIMcloud Manager was missing.
- 198606 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Search field in Manager Browser interface incorrectly handled click events during Japanese character entry.
- 199038 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Version 18 BIMcloud Server licenses were not released after upgrading BIMcloud to version 19.
- 202152 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud/ LDAP Connection: Long queries failed with Error code 7.
- 201116 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud/ LDAP Connection: If preview set large, scrolling returned empty screen.
- 193858 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: In case of specific SMTP settings, the Manager could not send email to the users.
- 201786 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Send email function didn’t work because system could not connect to SMTP.
- 196715 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: In some cases, the Data folder path could not be modified with the Manager Configurator.
- 202491 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Modified garbage collection arguments lost at update installation.
- 198156 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Under certain circumstances, the Projects folder path could not be modified with the Configurator and an error message came up.
- 196797 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: the server could crash on OS X when it reached the limit of the available Thread Local Storage Slots.
- 199688 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: the server stopped serving requests on OS X when the combined number of open files/network connections reached 1024.
- 197089 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Under certain circumstances if attributes were modified, an error could happen during Send & Receive.
- 199565 TEAMWORK/CRASH: Under certain circumstances Archicad could crash during Send & Receive.
- 199964 TEAMWORK/DOCUMENT: Custom position Dimension texts could reset to default position in TeamWork project when the containing section was opened.
- 197500 TEAMWORK/EDIT: Elements on locked layers were not skipped from copy/paste.
- 199842 USER INTERFACE: A dialog used during editing was missing from the Truss Maker.
- 198097 USER INTERFACE: Build number in “License Info” and on “about Archicad” splash screen could be different.
- 195705 USER INTERFACE: Changing the ID of a layout subset was not possible under Properties in the Navigator.
- 193382 USER INTERFACE: EDU/TRIAL serial number’s first part did not appear on the activation dialog if the serial number was copy-pasted on Macintosh.
- 193385 USER INTERFACE: In certain cases, Dialog Boxes were displayed in the wrong order on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
- 195358 USER INTERFACE: The composite settings panel was optimized.
- 198734 USER INTERFACE: The Printer Dialogue Settings displayed Resolution options that could not be used.
This Update contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 19.
MAC OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) related fixes
- 193182 USER INTERFACE: Items from drop-down menus could not be selected on MAC OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
Other fixes
- 194889 BIMx: In some cases Layout didn’t match 3D model in BIMx mobile. This could happen when the View that was placed onto the Layout used both Rotate Orientation and Fit in window.
- 189795 CRASH: Archicad could crash when the Inject Parameters Tool was used when the source element was on a hidden layer.
- 189378 CRASH: Archicad was crashing on startup, when running with hardware acceleration on virtual computer solutions.
- 193876 DOCUMENT: Cell Line was missing in Interactive Schedule.
- 190837 DOCUMENT: The Ceiling Lamp 18 (Type 12) was displayed rotated when rendered with the Cinerender Engine.
- 195069 DOCUMENT: In certain cases, some elevation dimensions on the Story level lines disappeared when structure display was changed and changed back.
- 193797 DOCUMENT: The exported Sun Study sketch movie could contain blank frames.
- 194829 EDIT: Adding skins to certain Composite structures could cause Archicad to crash.
- 192683 EDIT: Hiding Mark-Up entries using the Mark-Up palette or Model View Options didn’t take effect on Trace and Reference, Sections, Elevations and Layouts.
- 191894 EDIT: A slanted wall with a centered reference gave incorrect feedback while drawing when its slant angle was set to 90 degrees making the slanted wall effectively a normal wall.
- 190457 EDIT: The Rotation angle of an Object was incorrect when the Relative to Orientation option was set and the Orientation was rotated.
- 192630 EDIT: When Renovation Override was applied to a Morph, it was displayed with incorrect lineweight in Elevations.
- 195539 EDIT: “Make Fills and Zones Transparent” on the Trace & Reference palette made the foreground fill invisible not just the background fill.
- 193676 EDIT: Choosing a favorite from the Dimension Default Settings panel caused some parameters to turn inactive.
- 123991 EDIT: Elements of the Interior Elevation marker could be selected separately. When partially selected, the layer could not be changed.
- 195689 EDIT: In Unattached Sections the dragging of Guidelines was incorrect.
- 193391 EDIT: Surface overrides couldn’t be turned off for Roofs when surfaces were linked.
- 195263 EDIT: The Postal Box Field in Project info wasn’t capable of storing data. It accepted input, but upon reopen was empty.
- 193054 EDIT/SPEED: Changing the ID of multiple Doors/Windows took a very long time on Floor Plan.
- 146136 Energy Evaluation: Climate server-based temperature profile of London was wrong.
- 193929 FILE/BIMcomponents: Archicad sent “Serious Error” message when downloading from BIMcomponents.com.
- 194106 FILE/OPEN: “Corrupt Archicad Education/Trial version license file” error message came up because of an issue related to Java update.
- 189712 FILE/Cinema4D/IMPORT: In some cases the opening of a Cinema 4D file, using the add-on was slow.
- 193525 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: If a fill with a transparent background and a renovation Override was exported using the “Export Fill Background as Additional Solid Hatches” option, it would lose its transparent background when opened in AutoCad.
- 194388 FILE/DWG/IMPORT/CRASH: Importing certain DWG files caused Archicad to crash.
- 193561 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Non-horizontal IFC Beams were imported with wrong geometry.
- 194171 GDL: The value of the global GLOB_LAYER of objects was not displayed correctly in the Object Selection Settings dialog if this global was used in the parameter script of the object.
- 195075 GDL: Master GDL objects were not running before or after listings.
- 51412 GDL: Saved as GDL object failed under certain circumstances.
- 195026 GDL: Various GLOBALs did not work properly.
- 194670 HOTLINK/DOCUMENT: if a copy of a hotlink was mirrored the change in the orientation of the doors did not appear in schedules so doors with left/right orientation were calculated wrong.
- 195529 HOLINK/SPEED: Opening particular hotlinked sections in CHE language version was slow.
- 39412 MODEL: Almost identical meshes sometimes could not be subtracted with Solid Element Operations.
- 102961 MODEL: Complex profile joining with window failed under certain circumstances.
- 195245 MODEL: If the Legacy Mode for the Interior Elevation was enabled and the option “Consider Solid Operations” was checked, the Interior Elevation View appeared empty.
- 122694 MODEL: Intersection of profiled walls could have different 3D representation on Mac.
- 71727 MODEL: Meshes sometimes could not be subtracted with Solid Element Operations.
- 194253 MODEL: Scale to Fill and Scale to Fit parameters didn’t modify the size of the 3D window background image.
- 69492 MODEL: Solid element operations targeted for beams in some cases were erroneously applied to slabs.
- 194877 SHELL EXTENSION: Windows Explorer could sometimes crash when working with .pln files (created in AC 18 build 6000 or AC 19 build 3003)
- 194286 SPEED: Navigation on Floor Plan was very slow when both the Trace&Reference and the Renovation palette were turned on.
- 194139 SPEED: Panning and zooming on the floor plan of large files could be very slow under certain circumstances.
- 194137 SPEED: Turning the 3D cut plane on could make the 2D navigation slow/laggy.
- 194770 SPEED: Using of preview pictures (e.g. 2D Symbol) in an Interactive Schedule caused the slow opening of the Schedule.
- 194640 TEAMWORK: In rare cases Archicad could crash in Teamwork at Send & Recieve if a Level Dimension was placed on a Roof.
- 189670 TEAMWORK: In some cases PLN backups were not requested at Send & Receive, therefore these weren’t created and uploaded to the server computer.
- 194685 TEAMWORK: Roof crops were deleted in a teamwork project that was hotlinked into another project.
- 194815 TEAMWORK: under certain cases communication could fail through a forward proxy if BIM Server was busy.
- 195186 TEAMWORK: under certain cases communication with the BIM Server could fail when a Pen table attribute become inconsistent between Archicad and the BIM Server.
- 195268 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Under certain usage conditions the BIMcloud Manager web interface had performance problems
- 193835 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Could not create a subfolder under a folder with the “Duplicate” function if the same subfolder name existed under another folder.
- 192046 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: floating CAL licenses could get stuck with a user who was not joined to any project.
- 192324 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: It was not possible to export the BIMcloud project list to an excel file.
- 192372 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: The export of BIMcloud users did not include default roles.
- 181187 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Under certain usage conditions the BIMcloud Server stopped working.
- 193134 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud: Archicad 19 was not able to use Archicad 18 credentials to connect to a BIMcloud supporting both versions. The server address and user credentials needed to be re-entered.
- 187702 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: certain operations in the Manager (e.g. deleting multiple elements) were slow due to the inefficient backup schedule synchronisation.
- 197537 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: Access Control was unavailable when the user database contained more than 100 users.
- 197636 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: If the user database contained more than 100 users, most of the users were hidden from the Server Administrator role when simplified view was active.
- 183226 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: The default idle time to logout from BIMcloud/BIMserver web page was 15 minutes. This default has been changed to 30 minutes.
- 174432 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/BIMcloud: while a user was created his management role did not appear to be saved first.
- 195531 TEAMWORK/BIM Server/CRASH: In rare cases BIM Server could crash if an error occurred with database handling.
- 141870 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: File names of PLN project backups didn’t contain the Project name, only the date stamp when the backup was created.
- 194340 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: Importing users from a BIMusers file could fail, if you already had a user with the same user name on the server.
- 192667 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: In rare cases the database file of the BIM Server became corrupt.
- 193610 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: In rare cases BIM Server could crash if an error occurred with database handling.
- 192011 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: In rare cases when a project was imported to a BIM Server the option for Backup scheduling was grayed out on the Manager interface.
- 192616 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: Library from the BIM Server couldn’t be downloaded on a slow network to Mac clients if it contained a large number of small files.
- 194918 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: PLN backup files remained on the BIM Server computer after they were deleted from the BIM Server Manager.
- 194655 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: project list could not be scrolled in BIM Server Manager on iPad.
- 193854 TEAMWORK/BIM Server: TXT files showing the name in each Project/Library folder are now distinguished with a “_ProjectName”/”_LibraryName” prefix.
- 191259 TEAMWORK/BIMcloud/BIM Server/Windows 10: BIMcloud/BIM Server Manager’s web interface did not open with Windows 10 Microsoft Edge browser.
- 191819 TEAMWORK/CRASH: Archicad could crash when one user edited the name of an IFC Zone while another was sending changes.
- 194732 USER INTERFACE: Custom Scales bar was empty when one chose feet or inches as Model Units.
- 195110 USER INTERFACE: Section’s, Elevation’s content was not automatically fit to view upon initial open with a retina display.
- 191472 USER INTERFACE: When two instances or Archicads were open on a Mac, Quick Options Palette of one instance could contain Layer Combinations from the other instance.
- 193183 USER INTERFACE/Windows 10: On Windows 10 the Open and Save dialogs could not be resized after they had been maximized.
- 195063 USER INTERFACE/Windows 10: When one started Archicad 19 on Windows 10 Operating System, shadows under windows effect was switched off.