Teamwork - outside office network - expanding staff

[JamesAIA]

Have you tried developing project on teamwork in collaboration with someone outside your company ?
For example get someone to model some building finished, setting up layouts placing annotations etc ...

[tonyfitz]

We do this a lot, what is it exactly you want to know ?

Generally we have enough BIMcloud licenses for them to access our system or give them access to our system via VPN if using BIMcloud basic.

But let us know a little more about what you are trying to work out and I can provide you some more insight.

[Djordje]

Preparing for a similar action, by adding concept architects to the team for a particular job. We are running 22-25 BIMCloud Basic, and wondering whether going for BIMCloud Pro or BIMCloud aaS would make things easier, if not cheaper?

Does anyone from the Middle East region have experience with the BCaaS? Our allocated Google server is in India.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

BCaaS not from the Middle East but Buenos Aires (working on US BCaaS projects). BCaaS has totally spoiled me and I don't want to ever again hear about servers, VPN, restarts. For small offices/teams it probably makes a lot of sense economically (a few hours a month taken by any combination of the above will pay for the service), but my thing with BCaaS is visceral, irrational, passional. 

[Noemi Balogh]

BIMcloud as a Service is hosted in India for the Middle East region, as it is running on Google's cloud service too. 🙂 

If you have a good experience with the service over there (you can even check the most important parameters here: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Setup-License-articles/BIMcloud-as-a-Service-Connection-Test/ta-...) then a BIMcloud as a Service is a good choice. With the most recent features, it can grant you some better licensing opportunities to work together with the external architects, and also you can quickly exchange project data via the integrated BIMx viewer.

[Djordje]

Hi Noemi

Thanks for the reply!

Funnily enough, the ping with the allocated Mumbai or Delhi Google Cloud servers is the slowest in the list with almost 500ms! The fastest are European servers with about 160-200ms

So should we go with the recommended servers or connect to the fastest ones?

Researching... 🙂

[Noemi Balogh]

I made that mistake I didn't ask where the external architects are located. If they are located in the same country, then I would choose based on existing experience with servers in India and feature set of BIMcloud product plans, if they are located outside and somewhere really far away (e.g. in Vietnam), then you might get better chance if you host your BIMcloud somewhere in the "middle".

[Djordje]

They are here in Dubai. That is why I was checking the options... the city infrastructure is very good, and despite VPNs and other IT issues, it could be better to do the thing locally. As I have said, research is in progress 🙂

[Djordje]

the latencies really do not make any sense...

Global HTTP Load Balancer global	126 ms
Netherlands europe-west4	155 ms
London europe-west2	156 ms
Warsaw europe-central2	151 ms
Frankfurt europe-west3	136 ms
Zurich europe-west6	148 ms
Finland europe-north1	166 ms
Belgium europe-west1	145 ms
Montréal northamerica-northeast1	211 ms
North Virginia us-east4	210 ms
Toronto northamerica-northeast2	219 ms
South Carolina us-east1	220 ms
Iowa us-central1	233 ms
Salt Lake City us-west3	251 ms
Oregon us-west1	266 ms
Los Angeles us-west2	271 ms
Las Vegas us-west4	274 ms
São Paulo southamerica-east1	320 ms
Tokyo asia-northeast1	363 ms
Osaka asia-northeast2	370 ms
Santiago southamerica-west1	394 ms
Seoul asia-northeast3	399 ms
Taiwan asia-east1	401 ms
Melbourne australia-southeast2	411 ms
Sydney australia-southeast1	405 ms
Hong Kong asia-east2	406 ms
Singapore asia-southeast1	421 ms
Jakarta asia-southeast2	437 ms
Delhi asia-south2	485 ms
Mumbai asia-south1	483 ms

[Djordje]

... another stupid question: should all the logged in BCaaS users be on the same version and build of Archicad? It is logical to assume that the answer is yes.

The documents mention 23 as the highest version, therefore either they were not updated, or you can actually not use newer Archicad than 23? Again, not logical.

Thanks for any clarifications.

[Noemi Balogh]

BIMcloud as a Service is working from Archicad 20 6000 and above. Could you help me where did you read Archicad 23? So we can update it. Thank you!

About builds in Teamwork: yes, all team members should work with the same Archicad major version on the same update build. What is available compared to BIMcloud Basic is that you can have an Archicad 25 and Archicad 24 projects parallel on the same BIMcloud and access them accordingly.

[Djordje]

Hi Noemi

The versions are mentioned at https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Let-s-get-started/BIMcloud-as-a-Service/ta-p/304068 Step 4 and onwards

I think it would be enough to say "Archicad 20 build 6000 and newer, with current updates"?

[Noemi Balogh]

Fixed. Thank you again! 🙂