topic Re: Leaving Archicad on at night in Project data & BIM

Leaving Archicad on at night

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:26:57 GMT

Hello All, I tried searching but didnt find what I was looking for. The situation is in our office we have four computers connected to a bim server on a mac mini that also houses the license keys. One of the users usually forgets to quit archicad at night or some time for the whole weekend.

So my question is is it bad to leave Archicad running?

If so is there a way to force someone to leave if it has been idle for a certain amount of time?

Re: Leaving Archicad on at night

Barry Kelly — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:25:40 GMT

Is it a WIBU or Codemeter network key?

I'm not sure about Codemeter but with the WIBU key there is a way to 'time out' the license if it has not been used for a certain period.
I believe the default is set to 24 hours but I can't remember if this feature is activated by default or not.
Also I can not remember if you have to set this just on the server machine or the individual users machine as well.

Open the WIBU key settings dialogue and refer to the attached image.
This will not shut down Archicad for the user but it will give them a message to say the license can no longer be found and it should free up the license for others.

Barry.

Re: Leaving Archicad on at night

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:15:36 GMT

Thanks for the reply. We have the codemeter key, which from what I found does not have the same options for the server tap on the web manager.