Old ArchiCAD Libraries Available for EVERYONE!

We all now know about the free file converters that allow us to open old ArchiCAD files, but what about digging up old libraries…

Did you know you can download ALL the old ArchiCAD libraries? Well all the libraries from 4.55 to 9.0. ArchiCAD 10 to ArchiCAD 14 libraries are included in ArchiCAD 15 as Migration Libraries, so you don’t need to download them in their entirety. I believe all versions starting with ArchiCAD 11 come with migration libraries for ArchiCAD 10 and above.

I wish I knew about these library downloads 6 months ago when I was trying to look at an old 6.5 file. It was a pain because I could open the file with 8.1, but I didn’t have the old libraries on either my machine or the server. Oh well. I know now. This just reminds me that Graphisoft has a ton of useful information out there for us. Sometimes it’s just a treasure hunt to find them.

Here are the links:

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/libraries/USA.html

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/libraries/INT.html

I presume there are similar links for the other language versions of ArchiCAD. If you find them, let me know and I’ll add them to the list above.

vistasp mehta says:

August 11, 2011 at 11:57 pm

Was version 4.55 Mac only?. The library for windows users is “coming soon”.

Jared Banks says:

August 12, 2011 at 9:40 am

Actually… 4.55 was the first version for both Mac and PC. http://www.archicadwiki.com/ArchiCAD%20versions Odd that it needs to be “coming soon”. Like it’s still in development. I’ll have to do some checking, but I wonder which version was the first to have a USA build. I think that might be 4.55 as well.

Ender Aydin says:

August 12, 2011 at 6:09 am

Maybe you should update the link for INT.html

Regards.

Jared Banks says:

August 12, 2011 at 9:37 am

Ender, thanks for catching that. The link is updated.

daniela says:

July 10, 2012 at 10:15 am

Question: I have now ArchiCad 15 .. but old projects with ArchiCad 11 and 14 libraries.. but I can’t see the objects! Anyone knows what can I do?

Jared Banks says:

July 10, 2012 at 10:17 am

Your old libraries probably aren’t loaded in your old projects. Are you seeing a lot of big dots on the plan? When you open an old file in a new version of ArchiCAD you either need to manually load the old library or load the new library with the migration libraries. Sometimes ArchiCAD does this all automatically, usually not.

samuel says:

October 30, 2012 at 7:50 pm

can i load archicad15 library on archicad 16?

Jared Banks says:

October 30, 2012 at 8:41 pm

Samuel,

Yes. You can most definitely load the 15 library in ArchiCAD 16. However you don’t want to load both libraries as that will cause issues. Also if you just load the 16 library instead of the 15 library most/all of the objects will translate properly to their 16 counterparts.

Zinki says:

December 11, 2012 at 9:15 am

I was working on an Acad15 project on Windows 7 and when I opened it with Acad15 on my mac it said some of the library parts were missing. How can I resolve this?

Jared Banks says:

December 11, 2012 at 9:26 am

This really should have nothing to do with going from a PC to a MAC. What’s happening is that whatever library you’re using on the PC isn’t identical to the one on the MAC. Find out what’s missing (the library report manager will tell you) or just copy the library from the PC to the MAC. Also make sure that when you open the file on a different machine it knows where to find all the library parts. If folders get moved around, ArchiCAD won’t automatically know where to look. Check out this link for more info:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TransferProjects

yipyipper says:

March 25, 2013 at 11:22 pm

Hi! I know this is kind of an old post already but I was searching online for how to download the US library and this came up in the results.
I’m based in the Philippines and using the International version, but I found that the Electrical Symbols included are British/European symbols. In our country we mostly follow the US Electrical Symbols.
So now I was hoping that I could download the US Library for AC16… Any ideas? Or is it possible for me just to get the Electrical Symbols from the US Library 16?
Thanks and would appreciate any insights on this.

Jared Banks says:

March 26, 2013 at 10:25 am

Send me an e-mail: jared @ shoegnome.com and I’ll tell you what to do.

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