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Firewall Rule on installation

utz
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Hello Graphisoft Forum

I'm interested in the Revit-Plugin "IFC Model Exchange for ArchiCAD".

When I install the plugin, everithing works fine. But when I'm using the plugin the first time, it asks for permission to modifi the firewall rules.

=> What exactly does this plugin need the internet for?

=> As we do not intend to share our IFC-models with graphisoft, we fear, that there will be exchanged sensitive data with theyr cloud.

 

Can someone explain, what this rule does and what information is exchanged?

 

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

@utz wrote:

Can someone explain, what this rule does and what information is exchanged?


I don't know if any information is shared with Graphioft - I would suspect not - especially not model data.

I suspect it has to do with the ability yo check for updates automatically.

It will need internet access to do this.

From the manual ...

BarryKelly_0-1679904870190.png

 

Barry.

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Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

@utz wrote:

Can someone explain, what this rule does and what information is exchanged?


I don't know if any information is shared with Graphioft - I would suspect not - especially not model data.

I suspect it has to do with the ability yo check for updates automatically.

It will need internet access to do this.

From the manual ...

BarryKelly_0-1679904870190.png

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Hi Barry

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

I did not take the automatic updates in consideration. I'll first try to install the addon with automatic updates disabled.

I hope, this will help.

Thanks again.

 

Utz.

 

Edit:

With the following installation method it works like a charm:

PS> IFC_Model_Exchange_with_Archicad_for_Revit_2022-25-4013-1.1.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimalWithDialogs --enableautomaticupdate 0