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Univ keyplug

Anonymous
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Hi,

can univ keyplug of version 8 be used for version 7? When i launched version 7.0 i will be prompted with "protection key error".

thanks!
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Stephen Dolbee
Booster
Joanna,

You should have received a sheet entitled "Updating your Archicad 7.0 keyplug/dongle to Archicad 8". This gives the proceedure. Step 2 on that sheet says "Go to the AC8 license server at http://upgrade.graphisoft.com. You will need your authorization code, PIN, and registration info. It should work after updating (ours does, anyway). Hope that helps.

Steve
AC19(9001), 27" iMac i7, 12 gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, OS 10.12.6
Anonymous
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Hi Steve,

thanks for the advice. I got the a replaced dongle when purchase the upgrade, the programming of the keyplug was done by the vendor. They told me it is for version 8. It is more like a plug & play kind of thing at my side.

You mentioned about the license server. Do i need to do anything over there? If need, can you tell me how to do it? Not sure about the license server thing.

thanks a lot.

joanna
Gorazd
Enthusiast
The ArchiCAD 8 keyplug should work just fine with ArchiCAD 7 also. It works here with no special installation at all. I can even have both of them open at the same time and do a copy/paste between them. Only if you want to run AC 6.5 or 6 you need some installation (it is on your AC 7 disc).

Maybe you need to do a new installation of AC 7?
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Gorazd Rajh

From AC 6.5 onward, Ryzen 9 5900HS, 48 GB RAM, RTX 3080, Win 11
Anonymous
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HI Gorazd,

thanks for the advice, i will try it out.

thanks.