topic Re: permission to use AI assistant in AI Solutions

permission to use AI assistant

Quirk — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:21:11 GMT

Tried to access AI assistant and was greeted with the "Oh no....You do not have the necessary permissions (sic) to use the AI Assistant. Contact your system administrator for more information." How does one gain the required "permissions"? Ironically this is the type of question one would normally pose to the AI assistant.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Rita Gurjao — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:03:59 GMT

Hi @Quirk,

Thank you for your message!

The AI Assistant is available only for Archicad Collaborate, Studio, and Solo subscription licenses (cloud licenses). If you are using perpetual software key licenses, AI features will not be available. This article provides more information: AI Assistant in Archicad.

I hope this helps.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Atelier Croquis — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:55:53 GMT

Hello,

is this a feature that will be available soon also for the perpetual license? I don't find this fair to all the users of Archicad. We purchased a product with full features, this was not mentioned before. It is the same with the AI visualizer.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Bricklyne Clarence — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:27:17 GMT

As someone myself who doesn't really care about these new 'AI' tools they're introducing (because of how clunkily and brain-dead they've been implemented) and who therefore isn't affected by these sort of ming-boggling decisions they're making, I still feel bad for people like yourself now getting short-changed as a result of them trying to force you to switch to subscription.

To me this is just Graphisoft telling you they don't want your money, nor respect you enough to find a better way to convince you to switch to subscription than using tacky tactics like this.

Plan your future accordingly.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Lingwisyer — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:32:43 GMT

Most of the new features that are here and that are coming rely on cloud services and are only available to subscription users. Hopefully you did not just purchase a perpetual licence just before they stopped offering them with the intention of using said features...

Ling.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

aaroncohen — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:09:27 GMT

quite disappointing - I see no reason for this elimination..

Re: permission to use AI assistant

yimyammer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:01:20 GMT

creative extortion strikes again

Re: permission to use AI assistant

pejotunb — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:43:19 GMT

AI isn't free, that's why all the big tech companies are betting billions.

Just updated Sketchup's AI Render addon (equivalent of AI Visualizer) the other day, there's now a monthly limit of 200 'credits' for generation (roughly it looks like one generation = one credit, probably extra credit for sale, somewhere).

I think pretty much every such service will ultimately have a cap and extra tokens for sale, the same as LLM chats have already had for a while.

Still, I think perpetual licenses should obv. have a possibility to purchase the feature also, just the same as you might buy a third party addon like Visoid to do similar stuff. Hopefully also efficient local models will be available to run without much tech expertise, as the technology matures.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Lingwisyer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:41:27 GMT

Yeah, I was sort of surprised that the option to have them as an addon was not an option when they started revealing the subscription only features. I would have thought that it would be another way to try to convince fence sitters to pick up a subscription.

Just querying an AI chatbot is said to cost 10x what querying google does... and all of these big AI projects are still hemorrhaging billions on this bet.

Ling.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

abdelaziz — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:48:41 GMT

Hi,

AI is not free, but local and free alternatives exist, and it is important to be aware of them. For AI visualization, you can use “Fooocus,” which is based on stable diffusion and allows you to perform calculations for free and in-house with compatible hardware.

I use “Fooocus” daily because it specializes in image generation.
We are aware that ARCHICAD is not visualization software, but rather “BIM modeling” software, and visualization software has become very accessible and practically free.

I would prefer that Graphisoft focus its efforts on developing basic tools to enable AI to co-control models and co-manage metadata, as well as interact with the drawing environment.
AI Architect Assistant: for model control and advanced conflict detection.
1- For example, checking for collisions between door and window opening arcs and library elements, particularly with regard to local disability accessibility regulations.

2-Detecting polygons in a mesh that exceed a certain percentage in order to design a road correctly and optimize earthwork costs. However, this is impossible because the polygons in the mesh cannot be separated from it (we no longer want to use roofs for this task).

And there are many examples of the limitations of Archicad tools.

It is precisely on these points that we hope Graphisoft will find solutions, For user and For AI,

The more possibilities the tool offers, The more useful AI can be to us.

Thanks

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Bricklyne Clarence — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:06:02 GMT

There's a more robust discussion elsewhere on the forum on how Graphisoft could have, and probably should have better approached this whole "AI" intergration with archicad and architectural tools and design workflow - with even a list of other less known and more well known AI tools and solutions that had already began delving into AI and developing architecture-focused AI solutions. At least better than Graphisoft are doing so now.

Most recently we've seen the guys who developed the really amazing and popular Finch discuss how they're now looking at developing an add-on for Archicad as well - which would be really great and useful as an AI solution that could work alongside archicad specifcally focused on design (they already have a plugin developed for Revit.), And stuff like that will fly under the radar because of how GS like to approach and do things.

Now they're on project Aurora, which for me is just a Johnny-come-lately late-comer attempt to not get left behind with the like sof Autodesk's Forma, but ....again....this approach whereby you lock out majority of your users in the development of the tool rather than widen the scope is just a recipe for failure and poor uptake when they eventually release it.

Contrast how they're doing that with how McNeel and Rutten developed Grasshopper in Rhino.

It's night and day.

And yet now Grasshopper is probably the most powerful and most well-known visual algorithmic designer in the market.

Re: permission to use AI assistant

March_ Bruce — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:26:05 GMT

Indeed I read AI does use resources (environmentally challenging) and yet is SSA (for perpetural licensees) a subscription with expectations of full functionality, upgrades and support for the duration of a subscription term ?

Additionally would allowing use offer SSA customers a better sense of the value of it moving forward when SSA is no longer offered ?

Would the licensing model revert if the entire existing customer base chose to stay with the persistent model of what has claimed to be 'software designed by architects for architects' vs moving to subscription only ?

NEM.DE appears to be down over 30% in less than 4 months since peaking on August 11th, 2025...

Re: permission to use AI assistant

Roman-PS — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:50:30 GMT

You may have a look here too:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/AI-Solutions/AI-Assistant-does-not-work/td-p/680210