topic Re: Firewall Rule on installation in Installation & update

Firewall Rule on installation

utz — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:42:15 GMT

Hello Graphisoft Forum

I'm interested in the Revit-Plugin "IFC Model Exchange for ArchiCAD".

When I install the plugin, everithing works fine. But when I'm using the plugin the first time, it asks for permission to modifi the firewall rules.

=> What exactly does this plugin need the internet for?

=> As we do not intend to share our IFC-models with graphisoft, we fear, that there will be exchanged sensitive data with theyr cloud.

Can someone explain, what this rule does and what information is exchanged?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Re: Firewall Rule on installation

Barry Kelly — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:15:22 GMT

@utz wrote:

Can someone explain, what this rule does and what information is exchanged?

I don't know if any information is shared with Graphioft - I would suspect not - especially not model data.

I suspect it has to do with the ability yo check for updates automatically.

It will need internet access to do this.

From the manual ...

Barry.

Re: Firewall Rule on installation

utz — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:57:49 GMT

Hi Barry

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

I did not take the automatic updates in consideration. I'll first try to install the addon with automatic updates disabled.

I hope, this will help.

Thanks again.

Utz.

Edit:

With the following installation method it works like a charm:

PS> IFC_Model_Exchange_with_Archicad_for_Revit_2022-25-4013-1.1.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimalWithDialogs --enableautomaticupdate 0