List of Improvements in Archicad 24 Updates

The Update 5000 contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 24

• DEF-1133 CRASH: When deleting a wall, Archicad would sometimes crash.
• DEF-1154 FILE/IFC/IMPORT/CRASH: As Archicad tried to import an IFC with almost horizontal openings, it crashed.
• DEF-1162 PERFORMANCE: The MVO setting “slab erase” was not designed for Layer Combination changes with a lot of movement.
• DEF-1220 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: When this option was activated, Multisegmented Beams did not explode into Building Element Parts during IFC export.
• DEF-1242 CRASH: As walls with an offset reference line were broken, Archicad crashed.
• DEF-1315 EDIT: After selecting, copying, and zooming in on text, the size of the text changed.
• DEF-1347 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: Significant numbers of COBie-related Properties and Classifications were not optimised in Archicad.
• DEF-1364 TEAMWORK/EDIT: Without permission, it was possible to paste new Library Parts into a Teamwork project.
• DEF-1515 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Archicad did not import IFC elements with invalid faces.
• DEF-1534 HOTLINK: If skip nested was activated, embedded hotlink libraries remained in the host’s Library Manager even after being removed from the hotlink.
• DEF-1586 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: The export of views as DWG was hindered by a lack of Xref references.
• DEF-1614 MODEL: In Parts and Elevations, the Fill Cut Surfaces with: Uniform Surface was shown incorrectly.
• DEF-1623 MODEL: Reference and Trace When zooming in, the drawing vanished, only to reappear when zooming out.
• DEF-1651 MODEL: If the window was too limited, the Classification search returned Classification system instead of the desired entry.
• DEF-1657 EDIT: The adjust command didn’t always shorten the polyline’s shorter segment.
• DEF-1696 EDIT: The change in Absolute Display Cap was not saved in the view settings.
• DEF-1779 IFC/FILE/EXPORT: The Contact Category COBie property wasn’t correctly mapped to the Archicad info area.
• DEF-1925 FILE/OPEN: On the root of the opened project’s drive, an empty Cookies folder could be generated.
• DEF-1936 MODEL: When using the magic wand with Trace & Reference switched on, the layers shifted to a different mix.
• DEF-1948 PERFORMANCE: In comparison to v21, the Master layout was slightly slower in v23.
• DEF-1958 DOCUMENT: After changing the measurements and rules in the Project Preferences, the nominal height and width for windows in labels remained unchanged.
• DEF-1977 CRASH: Archicad crashed because a renovation filter that was active in a view was missing.
• DEF-1983 FILE/3DM/CRASH: Archicad crashed during import instead of skipping faulty geometry in Rhino scripts.
• DEF-2001 FILE/OPEN/DOCUMENT: Long-named mount points on macOS sometimes resulted in incomplete sketches or hotlinks.
• DEF-2022 FILE/XREF: When attempting to connect a second Xref from a network location that was installed, an alarm dialogue emerged.
• DEF-2028 FREEZE: The Magic Wand was not designed for views with a lot of polylines and a lot of items.
• DEF-2034 FREEZE: When a structure had a lot of fills and lines, Archicad took a long time to open it.
• DEF-2075 DOCUMENT: For Graphic Override Combinations, Show Headline in Project Indexes displayed incorrect results.
• DEF-2085 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: On the Archicad sheet, the imported model could be closed.
• DEF-2089 MODEL: In certain localised templates, the default railing settings resulted in separate floor plan view.
• DEF-2096 FILE/OPEN: Projects created in Archicad 23 that had walls with an invalid starting point could not be opened in Archicad 24.
• DEF-2105 CRASH: Archicad will often fail if you double-clicked on a layout in the navigator.
• DEF-2113 PERFORMANCE: The navigation in the project was slowed by the markup method used for curtain walls.
• DEF-2218 EDIT: With Python 3.9.0, the Archicad – Python relation did not work.
• DEF-2305 FREEZE: During the export of projects with thousands of attributes, Archicad became unresponsive.
• DEF-2321 MODEL/CRASH: On transferred files, the model comparison failed.
• DEF-2324 PERFORMANCE: Zooming and panning were not designed for new features in Archicad 24 layouts.
• DEF-2334 FILE/OPEN/CRASH: Due to duplicated views in cloned directories, Archicad crashed.
• DEF-2357 FILE/OPEN: On open, the dimensions of columns and beams can vanish from the floor plan.
• DEF-2366 PERFORMANCE: It took slightly longer to open a door list in Archicad 24 than it did in Archicad 21.
• DEF-2405 CRASH: When using Open & Repair on a file from a newer version of Archicad, the programme crashed.
• DEF-2452 FILE/IFC/CRASH: Instead of missing flawed IFC property data, Archicad crashed.
• DEF-258 PERFORMANCE: In comparison to previous models, 3D Archicad was less suited for repeated geometries.
• DEF-2664 DOCUMENT: After printing, text and autotext in master layouts were absent from the layouts and sketches.
• DEF-2725 FILE/OPEN/SAVE/PERFORMANCE: On macOS the length of the recent file list prevented a quick open or save.
• DEF-2771 TEAMWORK/CRASH: When the file was shared in Archicad 24 build 3008 and accessed in build 4000, Archicad crashed.
• DEF-3016 USER INTERFACE: In macOS Big Sur, objects from the drop-down list could not be picked.
• DEF-337 BIMX: Because of an unsupported character from an Archicad pen package, the site viewer showed error 500.
• DEF-438 CRASH: Hatch alteration in vector images was not handled well.
• DEF-647 FILE/DWG/IMPORT: When importing DWG files with so many colours, Archicad struggled to allocate the right pens.
• DEF-666 HOTLINK/EDIT: Hotlink module locking did not work.
• DEF-962 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: When grid elements were exported to DWG as Blocks, they didn’t always appear correctly.
• DEF-3521 MODEL: When placed on the opposite side of the wall’s reference line, windows with Custom Corner flickered.
• DEF-2945 TEAMWORK/DOCUMENT: PMK files that had previously been released on BIMcloud could not be updated after they were re-published.

This package contains the fixes and improvements of the previous Updates as well.

The Update 4018 contains a fix for the following issue:

• DEF-3085 MODEL: Section, Elevation viewpoints and views were deleted if a detail was created on section when Issues Manager is in use.

The Update 4007 contains various enhancements and fixes since the original release of Archicad 24

• DEF-1194 BIMX/CRASH: BIMx Uploader sometimes crashed when deleting the pending uploads.
• DEF-1419 CRASH: On Mac Archicad sometimes crashed when switching between the applications.
• ARCH-12817 DOCUMENT: Extra accuracy numbers were displayed incorrectly in the schedules if the decimals were set to zero.
• DEF-363 DOCUMENT: The list selected in schedule did not lead users to all elements in the model after they clicked the “Show in 3D” button.
• DEF-1397 DOCUMENT: The settings of the last viewed source of a drawing temporarily overwrote the currently in focus drawing of the layout.
• ARCH-12819 DOCUMENT: Zones’ Reduced Area data was not stored as an area type property.
• DEF-676 DOCUMENT/CRASH: A dimension recalculation initiated because a view’s renovation filter changed, sometimes triggered a crash in Archicad.
• DEF-243 DOCUMENT/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed as a result of creating a new layer combination when the Organizer was open.
• DEF-302 DOCUMENT/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed when an external drawing was selected.
• DEF-624 DOCUMENT/CRASH: If the volume unit was set to “cubic feet” or “gallon” in Calculation Units & Rules, Archicad crashed when placing a schedule in layout.
• DEF-1147 DOCUMENT/FREEZE: Schedules with zone-related information were calculated slowly.
• DEF-501 FILE/ DWG/EXPORT: Archicad Swiss version Default Translator 01 exported dwg with drawing units set to meters instead of milimeters.
• DEF-1291 FILE/BCF/IMPORT: A BCF import was negatively impacted by a survey point which lead to an incongruence between the preview and 3d window.
• DEF-1167 FILE/CRASH Archicad sometimes crashed due to a missing graphic override combination in the view map settings for details and worksheets.
• DEF-1724 FILE/CRASH: Archicad crashed randomly on macOS with AMD videodriver due to active Geometry Shader.
• DEF-1137 FILE/CRASH: Archicad crashed while opening a file that had been migrated from earlier versions.
• DEF-1201 FILE/CRASH: Missing information in view settings sometimes crashed Archicad.
• DEF-1131 FILE/DWG/EXPORT: The stair layer changed after the user exported the project as dwg.
• DEF-524 FILE/DWG/EXPORT/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed while saving a layout as DWG.
• AECO-189 FILE/DWG/IMPORT: The viewports of an imported DWG were sometimes misplaced on a layout.
• AECO-171 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: Errors in an IFC that was exported from Archicad caused problems when importing to a 3rd party application.
• DEF-377 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: Stories created by Update with IFC model operation in Archicad resulted in missing stories in the exported IFC model.
• DEF-431 FILE/IFC/EXPORT: Windows with a Splayed Reveal type were exported to IFC with the wrong geometry.
• DEF-184 FILE/IFC/EXPORT/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed during IFC export on Mac due to a long path in the Publisher Set.
• DEF-1314 FILE/IFC/EXPORT/CRASH: Beams could have holes outside their body which led to a crash of Archicad during IFC export.
• DEF-1009 FILE/IFC/FREEZE/EXPORT: Archicad has been optimized to better handle complex elements during an IFC export.
• DEF-254 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: A syntax error sometimes caused crash while opening IFC files.
• DEF-726 FILE/IFC/IMPORT: Archicad was not capable of importing IFCCSGSOLID entity upon IFC import.
• ARCH-11945 FILE/IMPORT/EXPORT: Complex profile stretch modifiers were missing in interactive schedules after exporting then importing them back to Archicad.
• DEF-82 FILE/MOD/PUBLISH: A module file was missing content if it was published using “the Range” settings in the save options.
• DEF-225 FILE/OBJ/EXPORT: Some elements got wrong type name when exported as a Wavefront (OBJ) model.
• DEF-8 FILE/OPEN: Archicad could not browse for content located on a server via an alias on the desktop.
• DEF-2357 FILE/OPEN: Column and beam related dimensions could disappear from floor plan during opening PLN.
• DEF-1612 FILE/OPEN/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed when a project from an earlier version was opened.
• DEF-242 FILE/OPEN/FREEZE: Precision calculation errors made file opening freeze in certain geometry circumstances.
• DEF-303 FILE/PDF/EXPORT: Archicad failed to publish the whole publisher set to PDF.
• DEF-423 FILE/PDF/EXPORT: Saving as PDF with trace&reference on resulted in a document showing only the traced view.
• DEF-140 FILE/PDF/IMPORT: Comments were not imported with PDF in the new Issue Organizer.
• DEF-451 FILE/SAF/IMPORT Some slanted columns exported from RISA and imported using SAF had the wrong rotation in Archicad.
• DEF-989 FILE/SAVE/CRASH: Meshes with site geometry classification sometimes crashed Archicad on export to IFC.
• DEF-63 FREEZE: A large number of renovation filters in a project sometimes slowed down switching between views of that project.
• DEF-933 FREEZE: Properties generated from the 3D model sometimes resulted in slow schedule creation.
• DEF-369 FREEZE: Random performance issues were caused by a long recent documents list.
• DEF-888 GDL: Labels were getting information from “model base properties” even though they were not related to the model.
• DEF-396 GDL/CRASH: Corrupted GDL parameters sometimes caused crashes while opening a 3D view.
• AKEY-495 MODEL: 3D projection settings jumped back to the previous state when layout tab got closed.
• DEF-52 MODEL: Curtain wall height and rotation parameters were not transfered with pickup/inject parameter transfer tools.
• DEF-1383 MODEL: Orientation rotation could not be changed after the view had been saved.
• DEF-1582 MODEL: Pan and zoom in 3D window were slow due to an unaccessible Archicad registry key.
• DEF-1196 MODEL/CRASH: Archicad sometimes crashed when elements were placed after deleting attributes.
• DEF-1547 MODEL/DOCUMENT Archicad identified columns/beams created by Grasshopper Connection as invalid and deleted them.
• DEF-906 MODEL/EDIT: When Trace & Reference was involved, the “Fit in Window” zoom switched on some layers at random. 
• DEF-535 OPEN/CRASH: As UTF-8 wordwide language support was allowed in Archicad for Windows, the software crashed.
• DEF-652 TEAMWORK: After sharing a certain number of files, Archicad used all of the memory.
• DEF-440 TEAMWORK: It was possible to erase schedules without first reserving them from the Project Map.
• DEF-1156 TEAMWORK: Modifications to shared objects can cause an error message to appear during the submit process.
• DEF-1663 TEAMWORK: A sluggish send and receive resulted from modifying only one member of a category of several components.
• DEF-110 TEAMWORK: Change tracking performance in teamwork has improved.
• DEF-113 TEAMWORK/IFC: Without reservation, a new IFC interpreter could be allocated to a publisher in Coordination.
• DEF-279 USER INTERFACE: In certain areas of the user interface, an out-of-date Archicad emblem emerged. 
• DEF-1407 USER INTERFACE: The path to the Archicad-Python Relation Page in the Python Palette was routed incorrectly.

This package contains the fixes and improvements of the previous updates as well.

• DEF-1547 MODEL/DOCUMENT: Archicad defined Grasshopper Link columns/beams as invalid and removed them.
• DEF-1291 FILE/BCF/IMPORT: A survey point messed up a BCF import, resulting in an inconsistency between the preview and 3d pane.
• DEF-1167 FILE/CRASH: Owing to a missed graphic override combination in the view map settings for information and worksheets, Archicad periodically crashed.
• DEF-676 DOCUMENT/CRASH: A crash in Archicad was rarely caused by a dimension recalculation induced by a view’s renovation filter shifting.
• DEF-451 FILE/SAF/IMPORT: In Archicad, certain slanted columns exported from RISA and imported using SAF had the incorrect rotation.