Stupid House Building Question

I was trying to quickly create a few house templates that I could layout on a cliff to make a cliff house. So I went to a sandbox sky platform and, using the wonderful BSD Archer freebie, I took a lot of pieces off of it to get a 20x10 room. Then I tried to just link it all together at once so I could take it into inventory, which behaved oddly. An hourglass came up and stayed whenever I opened my inventory or moused over the menus. However, everything in the client worked fine otherwise. The house did not link, and altho i could choose Take Copy in the pie menu, nothing happened. I am quite sure I only had the 20x10 room selected - I had "select only my objects" on and derezed the platform first. Is this because a 20x10 item is too large to link? Should I have followed the instructions in this thread:
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Or was there some other reason. The house had scripted doors and windows, could that have somehow caused it?

I'm embarrassed to have to ask this, and if someone knows of a class in home building I will take it. I didn't see one at NCI or TUI last time I looked.

It was probably a limitation based on the scripts in the parts, yes. The Archer House may be a freebie, but that does not mean all its scripts are full-perms and able to be incorporated in other builds at will. I did similar experiments when first starting out, and quickly learned that tearing apart freebies is mostly just good for an inspiration, and not for building block supplies.

Your best bet is to rez your own prims, and, using something like Archer House as an inspiration, see what you can do on your own. The Scripting Tips and Scripting Library forums can provide you with suitable free scripts for doors, windows, and other basics. And then what you have built is really your own creation - something you could freely sell to others if it is good enough.

Thanks, Ceera. I'll pull apart a few more houses to see how it's done and then go it on my own

It was odd to try linking and then not get any sort of message, nothing saying I didn't have permission, just an hourglass