topic Re: Archicad 11 trial version in Modeling

Archicad 11 trial version

Csongor BIRTOK — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:10:28 GMT

Hello!

I have a costumer using AC11 trial version.
He made a project and something happened to his computer and he was forced to reinstall the Windows.
Now with the new Win the program starts, but he can't open that file:
"This Trial-version file can be opened only on the computer on which it was saved".

Please help me with some answers...
He needs to remake the whole project or there is some solution

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Thomas Holm — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:24:56 GMT

csongraf wrote:
or there is some solution

Buy a license!

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Csongor BIRTOK — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:55:51 GMT

That firm makes webdesign so i can't force them to buy a full Archicad.
And probably they don't want that to.

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

TomWaltz — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:02:14 GMT

So they made a project on the free 30-day license and now want to know what to do? I'd say they are S.O.L. unless they buy a license.

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Thomas Holm — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:38:06 GMT

What you're asking for is essentially a way to hack around the trial version's protection - time and machine limit. You won't get it here. If somebody is stupid enough to bet his company on a free trial, that's his own problem. If he depends on using free software, he should limit himself to Google Sketchup and the like.

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:40:53 GMT

Thomas wrote:
What you're asking for is essentially a way to hack around the trial version's protection - time and machine limit. You won't get it here. If somebody is stupid enough to bet his company on a free trial, that's his own problem. If he depends on using free software, he should limit himself to Google Sketchup and the like.

No actually the new thing " i guess that i've read this somewhere " that the trial version will allow you to do the job only on a specific computer , meaning if you have 2 computers running trial versions you can't open a file created on PC1 on the trial version on PC2 , and i even guess you can't open it on a commercial version .
not sure

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Thomas Holm — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:01:19 GMT

whatever wrote:
i even guess you can't open it on a commercial version

Not sure about that either - you'd have to ask a reseller. I'm sure you'd find a fine print "not intended for commercial use" somewhere, though.

But I would also guess that if you've bought a license, and prove a legit reason, your reseller would help you out of this predicament.

Re: Archicad 11 trial version

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:19:08 GMT

Thomas wrote:
whatever wrote:
i even guess you can't open it on a commercial version

Not sure about that either - you'd have to ask a reseller. I'm sure you'd find a fine print "not intended for commercial use" somewhere, though.

But I would also guess that if you've bought a license, and prove a legit reason, your reseller would help you out of this predicament.

yes sorry i didn't write the full idea in my head

yes i remember that you can upgrade the trial version to commercial " basically its buying a license " so on that computer you can convert all your trial files into commercial files .