topic Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence in General discussions

Educational vs Non Educational Licence

nusaka — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:58:01 GMT

I am an educator and also a commercial architect.

I currently run vector works.

I would like to dabble in archicad. I have a few questions:

1/ Is the educational version a full version?

2/ If I start to dabble on an educational version and later decide to go all in and buy a commercial license, and ditch vectorworks, will I be able to bring my drawings with me?

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Frank Studzinski — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:58:56 GMT

1. EDU is FULL Version

2. You can't convert Archicad EDU files into regular full-version files.

2. Depending on the content, you can import your Vectorworks files as DWG or IFC.

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Barry Kelly — Fri, 03 May 2024 01:59:01 GMT

@Frank Studzinski wrote:

2. You can't convert ArchiCAD EDU files in regular full version files.

Just to clarify this.

You can open an EDU file in the commercial version, but it will always revert the software to the EDU version when you open it.

Once an EDU file it will always be an EDU file.

You can still edit and save it, but it will always have the EDU watermark.

Barry.

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Feike — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:44:52 GMT

Hi, I have a small architecture firm in the Netherlands. We have Archicad licences but not enough to accomodate extra interns. For our future intern I am looking for a reletively cheap way to learn Archicad and deliver a small contribution to our projects.

Since Graphisoft stopped the intern licences, I am now looking into educational versions for the student him/herself.

As these licences get an EDU watermark it will not be usable for us prefessionally. But would it be possible for instance to copy elements of an EDU file into a regular file (without copying the watermark with it and in doing so corrupting the regular file?

Regards,

Feike

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:12:55 GMT

No.

Copying from EDU to commercial is not possible unless you change the destination file to EDU.

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Lingwisyer — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:59:06 GMT

Some regions offer rental licences and pay-per-use licences, or used to anyway, which you could look into getting for the duration that the interns are around for?

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Barry Kelly — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:44:43 GMT

That would now be the subscription on a monthly basis.

Barry.

Re: Educational vs Non Educational Licence

Feike — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:02:45 GMT

Thanks for the replies!

It seems the only solutions for now is a monthly subscription.

Unfortunately this will be too expensive for us in order to accomodate an intern