AC15S-3268-3904-ReleaseNotes

Archicad 15 Solo Hotfix 1 (Build 3904)

Release Notes


Archicad 15 Solo Hotfix 1 (Build 3904)

This hotfix applies to all components of Archicad 15 Solo: Archicad, EcoDesigner, BIM Explorer, MEP Modeler and all other Graphisoft-distributed Add-ons and Goodies.

About the installer:

the Hotfix process will automatically search your computer for instances of Archicad 15 Solo (including MEP Modeler, EcoDesigner, and all Graphisoft add-ons)

If Archicad 15 Solo is already up-to-date, but one of the Archicad components (e.g. MEP Modeler or EcoDesigner) is not, the installer will indicate this and you can choose to update it.

Installation steps:

  • Make sure you have  administrator rights on the computer. Make sure none of the Archicad components are modified (e.g. renamed).
  • If you have multiple copies of either Archicad, then the installer will automatically find one copy. If you want to update a different instance, you can use the “Browse” button to locate it. You will need to run the installer multiple times to update each copy of Archicad.
  • If the installed Archicad is found to be not up-to-date, you also have the option not to update it: click “Don’t update [program] now.”

List of bugs fixed in this Hotfix:

  •  132425 API: Could not save IFC file by using the API
  • 125886 API: Element lists provided for add-ons were not filtered based on Renovation Filter 
  • 129936 CRASH: Archicad could crash after rebuilding section/elevation or regenerating drawing containing a shell
  • 125855 CRASH: Archicad could crash on editing “User Environment”
  • 114689 CRASH: Archicad could crash with particular projects after switching between two instances of the application
  • 119292 CRASH: In certain situations undoing a Solid Element Operation between a wall and library element could crash Archicad
  • 123018 CRASH: In particular circumstances Archicad could crash after double-clicking on an elevation in the view map while the layout window was active
  • 129682 CRASH: Recovering project crashed Archicad if particular Work Environment profile had been imported
  • 129753 DATA LOSS: Archicad displayed  library elements as missing in projects with placed library elements without a GUID and containing “/” character in their names
  • 138087 DOCUMENT: Update Zone command could give wrong results with Zones trimmed to Roofs            
  • 129951 DOCUMENT: After placing a new window and creating a view with the renovation filter set to ’03 After Demolition’ the window did not show
  • 128363 DOCUMENT: Drawing of elevation became rotated when placed on layout
  • 114251 DOCUMENT: In case of slabs with composite cut fill structure of skins didn’t get displayed by slab label after changing from text label to slab label
  • 127557 DOCUMENT: In Interactive Schedules Cyrillic fonts were shown as question marks on Layout
  • 133379 DOCUMENT: In PolyRoof Interactive Schedule the value of the “Holes Perimeter” was calculated erroneously
  • 129925 DOCUMENT: In the Interactive Schedule  a rounded/circular polyline placed as annotation appeared erroneously
  • 129479 DOCUMENT: In the Interactive Schedules numeric elements were sorted in dictionary order instead of numerically. For example: 1, 10, 11, 2
  • 137014 DOCUMENT: Label associated with skylight didn’t appear on layout
  • 117328 DOCUMENT: Pen set changed after copying a drawing on Layout
  • 130000 DOCUMENT: Publishing failed if the file contained at least one External Drawing and its source file was still open
  • 129156 DOCUMENT: Sill/Header values were summed up when listing multiple Doors/Windows
  • 127992 DOCUMENT: Window/Door nominal sill height couldn’t be set in the Interactive Schedule 
  • 130839 DOCUMENT: With particular file in the Sheet Index List several Layout were associated with the wrong Master Layout
  • 126926 DOCUMENT: X-Y only geometry method Dimensions didn’t work if Grid Rotation Anglewasn’t the default (even when rotated grid is turned off)
  • 132136 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: A dimension chain lost segments when Curtain Wall ID had been changed
  • 136391 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Additional parameters of Door markers could disappear from the Interactive Schedule
  • 141507 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Dimension node point of objects could get lost when switched to a view where the object became invisible according to the associated Renovation Filter
  • 133590 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Dimensions could be deleted when opening file due to loading attributes in wrong order
  • 137590 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Dimensions on object could get lost when changing views with different Renovation filters
  • 138584 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: In section, Dimension points were allowed to be added to a Grid tool Dimension chain. These added dimension points would be lost once the user
  • navigated away from the section
  • 115987 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Saving file, moving Curtain wall, dragging a copy of Curtain wall along with its dimension could alter the dimension string associated with the Curtain Wall reference line
  • 127178 DOCUMENT/DATA LOSS: Some dimensions were lost after trying to subtract a polygon from a Fill, Slab, or Roof
  • 133601 EDIT: Click to Trim function was executed very slowly if there were many fills in the project 
  • 133709 EDIT: Column labels disappeared in view, but still appeared in Layout          
  • 123052 EDIT: Curtain Wall could not be edited in particular project            
  • 127470 EDIT: Pet Palette of Multi-plane Roof or Shell disappears both in 2D and 3D right after clicking on any of their hotspots or outlines
  • 134333 EDIT: Wall recesses to Zone are not selectable            
  • 129295 EDIT: Element ID Manager changed ID’s of doors in reverse order
  • 131565 EDIT: Hotspots of doors/windows could be misplaced after resizing the containing wall
  • 129216 EDIT: In the Text Box the text didn’t get wrapped in certain situations
  • 131681 EDIT: In Windows-Doors Settings, after changing Reveal Depth, Sill/Threshold depth was also set to the same value
  • 129500 EDIT: The caret that indicates the position of typing changed constantly in OS X Lion when a text box was created by double click
  • 126765 EDIT: When elevating a ridge of a multi-plane roof in section the height of the roof wasn’t set accordingly
  • 127498 EDIT: Window lost its  renovation parameter after splitting containing wall
  • 126962 EDIT: With a particular project W1 Trapezoid 14 window could jump into another plane when clicking on its hotspot
  • 131180 EDIT/CRASH: Archicad could crash when on a Detail view a closed polyline was edited      
  • 133409 FILE/C4D: Alpha channel was not saved with C4D files
  • 119314 FILE/DGN: Saving to DGN succeeded only after the second trial
  • 110172 FILE/DWF: After exporting layout to DWF the model space coordinates of the elements could not be measured
  • 130873 FILE/DWF: If Rotated Views are exported to DWF, its elements will be exported with modified coordinates
  • 138178 FILE/DWG-DXF: Duplicate dimension text was left behind in AutoCAD, after moving or deleting a dimension imported from Archicad dimension chain                
  • 134841 FILE/DWG-DXF: Particular dwg file could not be imported           
  • 131118 FILE/DWG-DXF: Parts of the DXF-DWG Translator dialog could not be accessed on lower screen resolution    
  • 103405 FILE/DWG-DXF: Drawing with rotated orientation was exported to DWG-DXF with rotated coordinates in model space
  • 116531 FILE/DWG-DXF: Layers of the DWG-DXF template file were exported to DWG even though the “Do not export empty layers” checkbox was checked
  • 132479 FILE/DWG-DXF: Rotated 2d polylines were imported incorrectly
  • 129379 FILE/DWG-DXF: Shells’ Floor Plan view wasn’t exported to DWG
  • 136757 FILE/DWG-DXF/CRASH/: Archicad could crash after deleting all DWG Translators and creating a new one   
  • 130443 FILE/DWG-DXF/CRASH: Data in DWG data not compatible with their nominal file format could crash Archicad at import
  • 133251 FILE/EXPORT: Long schedule couldn’t be saved to XLS (Excel) format          
  • 134290 FILE/EXPORT: Skylight Labels were not exported to PDF            
  • 135611 FILE/IFC: Archicad exported the curved parts of the complex profiles as polylines instead of real curves
  • 136106 FILE/IFC: Base quantity of elements on which Solid Element Operation were applied were exported to IFC with incorrect Base Quantity                 
  • 136356 FILE/IFC: Elements clipped by Roof could lose the clipping information when exporting particular file to IFC
  • 136878 FILE/IFC: From particular Archicad file slabs were exported with erroneous geometry     
  • 136339 FILE/IFC: Mirrored copies of Columns rotated around their vertical axis lost their mirrored status when exported to IFC
  • 137420 FILE/IFC: With particular project elements were missing from the exported IFC file      
  • 138127 FILE/IFC: Columns had incorrect rotation angle in a particular IFC file       
  • 139834 FILE/IFC: IFC didn’t import site geometry in a special case          
  • 139753 FILE/IFC: IFC object based hotlinks lost their materials           
  • 135898 FILE/IFC: Materials of elements went wrong when importing a particular IFC file     
  • 139835 FILE/IFC: Negative length value erroneously generated by Tekla was not handled by Archicad’s IFC import  
  • 136394 FILE/IFC: Opening particular file resulted in wrong 3D model of some elements due to invalid Brep preparation of elements
  • 135451 FILE/IFC: Particular IFC file was imported with erroneous geometry of trimmed cylindrical beams   
  • 131450 FILE/IFC: When opening particular IFC file some pipe elements could go wrong       
  • 131449 FILE/IFC: After importing a particular IFC file into Archicad some doors were placed in front of the walls they belonged to
  • 131989 FILE/IFC: After saving an IFC file from certain projects the “Type” of the wall contained only the thickness of the wall instead of the name of the composite fill
  • 133758 FILE/IFC: Contour lines of windows and doors were missing after importing an IFC file saved by Archicad
  • 133813 FILE/IFC: IFC based quantity for roofs and shells were missing in exported IFC file
  • 132225 FILE/IFC: IFC Properties could not be defined in the Objects’ Settings Dialog, after the use of the “New and Reset All” command
  • 130844 FILE/IFC: Imported IFC file elements could change size if their settings window was viewed and the “OK” button was used to leave the dialog
  • 131662 FILE/IFC: In IFC files exported by Archicad, doors didn’t have opening lines
  • 132274 FILE/IFC: In IFC files saved by Archicad and opened in Revit applications openings were offset
  • 133292 FILE/IFC: In IFC Manager one couldn’t drag and drop a group of elements into another folder
  • 131829 FILE/IFC: Some elements could be rotated after importing particular IFC files to Archicad
  • 131576 FILE/IFC: Some openings didn’t create holes in walls in exported IFC files
  • 133561 FILE/IFC: Some openings didn’t create holes in walls with complex profiles in exported IFC files
  • 133704 FILE/IFC: Walls lost their IFC properties if its Element Classification was set to “Wall”
  • 133533 FILE/IFC: When Archicad 14 file was opened by Archicad 15, the ID of elements was overwritten by the ID’s set in the IFC Data
  • 131058 FILE/IFC: Automatic export of Zone Categories was missing from IFC export. For the fix to work you will need to set a Registry Key  in AC 15. See Wiki article.
  • 128579 FILE/IFC: certain walls from AutoCAD Architecture/MEP weren’t displayed in Archicad
  • 132747 FILE/IFC: Columns could be misplaced at IFC import
  • 132715 FILE/IFC: Height of walls could be miscalculated by Archicad when opening Tekla models
  • 130194 FILE/IFC: If the geometry of the axis of an  IFCGrid was IFCLine Archicad could not import it
  • 130027 FILE/IFC: In IFC file exported by Archicad and imported into Revit the frames of particular Curtain walls were rotated
  • 128231 FILE/IFC: Profiles of particular beams could be rotated by 90 degrees after importing IFC file
  • 126846 FILE/IFC: Properties of Door/Window Type were missing from IFC export
  • 113961 FILE/IFC: Walls could be misplaced at IFC import with particular IFC file
  • 129577 FILE/IFC: Walls were exported as simple IfcWall elements instead of IfcWallStandrardCase
  • 130713 FILE/IFC: Zones could be missing in the exported IFC file if Partial Structure Display has been set to “Core of load-bearing elements only” 
  • 133590 FILE/MODEL: One needed to open project twice so that correct complex profiles were loaded       
  • 133590 FILE/MODEL: One needed to open project twice so that correct complex profiles were loaded
  • 141813 INSTALL: Patches the uninstaller to be compatible with Java 1.7.
  • 130221 MODEL: in 3D Window object and casing could be erroneously positioned in Profiled Wall
  • 136520 MODEL: When an object went into an invisible renovation status it could change its position on the floor plan
  • 131169 MODEL: On Section/Elevation Multiplane Roof set to Existing renovation status lost its contours if Renovation Filter was set to “Planned”
  • 126461 MODEL: Window Size couldn’t be overwritten by parameter script
  • 127552 MODEL/DATA LOSS: Window lost its renovation parameter and reverted back to “existing” after using Drag a Copy on the containing wall
  • 138051-138058 MODEL/DATALOSS: Data of Roof elements could go Invalid           
  • 137645 MODEL/FREEZE: With specific file Archicad could hang after selecting area with a marquee and viewing it in 3D

Bugs fixed in optional Graphisoft components:

  • 129783 BIMx: “Play On Start” function didn’t work
  • 130644 BIMx: After saving particular large projects to BIMx, they showed empty in BIMx
  • 133374 BIMx: Archicad was freezing at exporting textures with particular project
  • 129541 BIMx: BIM Explorer or BIMx Desktop Viewer gave File error when opening a .bimx file by double-clicking on it or by dragging it on the application due to the name 
  • containing special characters
  • 132404 BIMx: BIMx did not work on some computers with integrated Intel graphics
  • 132153 BIMx: BIMx export didn’t succeed if User Name contained characters with ASCII code above 127
  • 138083 BIMx: BIMx viewer crashes when trying to save file on Vista
  • 131953 BIMx: Export of BIMx file failed if the the OS userhome parameter had been set to the root of the file system
  • 130734 BIMx: Particular project could not be saved to BIMx do to a file dialog problem 
  • 130055 BIMx: Particular project if  exported BIMx some textures were missing
  • 132483 BIMx: Quad Buffered Stereo mode could not be used in BIMx
  • 132480 BIMx: Textures were not shown on picture object
  • 134985 Cinema4D: C4D file with materials that had PNG textures and alpha channel went wrong after reopening them in Archicad
  • 136407 Cinema4D: Could not update the C4D plan without overwriting the materials of modified elements and duplicating them
  • 129378 ECODESIGNER: With particular project Net Heating Demand could be calculated erroneously when setting Heat pump for fresh air heating

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