AC int VS AC USA

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Short question: what is the difference between Archicad International and Archicad USA?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Henry wrote:
Hi,

Short question: what is the difference between Archicad International and Archicad USA?

Thanks

INT > Metric library and enviroment profile.
USA > Feets and inches Library and enviroment profile.

[Anonymous]

Reason I ask is that I can get a used version of AC11 but it is AC USA, I work in metric only - can I change the USA to metric or is it set?

Thanks

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

Of course You can use metric system with US version of AC

Furthermore the INT version will probably work with the USA key, but check the legal issues when using US version of AC outside US, read carefully the license.

Best Regards,
Piotr

[owen]

Piotr wrote:
Furthermore the INT version will probably work with the USA key, but check the legal issues when using US version of AC outside US, read carefully the license.

The INT version will work (well i know the AUS and INT versions both work on a AUS license).

As for the second 'licensing' point - i am not disputing what you are saying (i have not looked) however .... what a pile of crap.

Arbitrary geographical restrictions to prop up certain business models. We all use the same program, written by some guys in Hungary, running on essentially the same hardware.

Its like movie studios and their stupid Region Codes on DVDs, DRM, etc etc. Stop treating your paying customers like idiots or criminals. I have absolutely no hesitation in ripping movies to remove region encoding given the number of countries i have DVDs from. The same applies to software IMO .. if you have legitimately purchased something then you should be entitled to use that wherever you may be.

Thank god software companies have not managed to 'persuade' hardware manufacturers to incorporate some form of 'Region Code' horror in the computer industry.

(rant over)

[Laszlo Nagy]

All ArchiCAD versions can be downloaded from Bittorrent.
Here is the ArchiCADWiki article that has the details:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/ArchiCAD%20Bittorrent%20Downloads

[TomWaltz]

the only differences I know of between US and INT are:
- The metric library comes with INT and the Imperial library with US
- The INT numbers its ground floor 0 while the US version numbers it 1.

[owen]

TomWaltz wrote:
- The INT numbers its ground floor 0 while the US version numbers it 1.

and i seem to remember you cannot actually create a 'Storey 0' .. so you have -1 & 1. Not sure if this would cause any problems with multi-storey elements if people are collaborating using different international versions (a particularly realistic possibility now with AC13).