Image files saved in QuickTime formats are no longer supported in ARCHICAD 20, to ensure compatibility for image files on both Windows and Mac.
Supported image formats are: JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and BMP. You can save and place image files only to/from these formats.
If you migrate an older-format ARCHICAD project that contains figures or drawings in a different file format than these:
1.Figures and embedded drawings, in projects opened from ARCHICAD 15-17: these images are converted automatically into a supported image file format (e.g. png); no action is needed.
2.Figures and embedded drawings, in projects opened from ARCHICAD 14 or earlier: these images are not converted. You must open the project in ARCHICAD 15-17, re-save it to convert the images, then open the project in ARCHICAD 20.
3.Linked drawings: you must convert the files and re-link them.
Any linked drawings that are in QuickTime based formats must be converted to other file formats. If you have such linked drawings in your migrated project, a warning appears when you open the project in ARCHICAD 20.
The drawing content is not visible; their place in the project is an empty white box. The icons of these drawings are shown in red in Drawing Manager.
You must manually convert these files to a supported file format (e.g. PNG or JPG), then re-link them.
4.Image Files in the Embedded Library:
Any image files that are in unsupported formats are shown with the “unsupported file format” icon in the Library Manager. You should open and resave these files to a supported file format, and then Add these files to the Embedded Library.
If these image files are used in the project (e.g. in a Surface or Image Fill), then they are also listed in the Unsupported Objects folder of the Library Manager.
Recommendation
It is recommended to convert your QuickTime-format image files to either PNG or JPG format.
•If you convert a drawing to PNG format, you will not lose any data.
•If you convert a drawing to JPG, you will lose some data during the file compression process, but the file size will be smaller.