topic Re: Commercial License in Archicad C++ API

Commercial License

Thanh Phan — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:17:25 GMT

Do I need a commercial license to produce commercial plug-ins using the Archicad API?

Re: Commercial License

Joel Buehler — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:23:52 GMT

no plugins work in the demo version like they would work in a fullversion. you can start the demo version of archicad either by having not a license 😄 (haha) or with the powershell command

".\ARCHICAD.exe -DEMO" (Has to be Run in the Directory where your Archicad sits)

some things to consider:

- running add-ons on demo version has the adventage that you dont need a developer id and a local id of your plugin. found in your developer account

- all examples that come with the SKD run in demo version if you dont provide ids (waht you dont do beacause there are to many plugins to build) those examples are very important.

- you should have accsess to a fullversion archicad to test out your final plugin. there are a few things that can go wrong on the roll-out and you need to test if the plugin is working fine and as intended.

- "commercial plug-in" is for itself a difficult thema, since archicad has no plugin shop like autodesk. you need also to create a distribution and payment system by yourself... =(

Re: Commercial License

Thanh Phan — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:06:23 GMT

Thank you, it helps a lot

Re: Commercial License

Peter Baksa — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:24:34 GMT

Hi,

https://archicadapi.graphisoft.com/start says you don't need one. There is a developer license available for testing.

Re: Commercial License

Thanh Phan — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:34:29 GMT

Hi, thanks for your answer. So what is the developer license purpose?