BIMcloud Basic - setting up in different computers on the same network

[jrmrt]

Hello,

Our office has just upgraded to AC29 from AC24.  We're a small office, but most of our projects are set up as Teamwork files.  Because most of these projects are quite far a long, we will not be updating those older files to AC29.

We do want to start using AC29 for new projects though, and set them up as Teamwork files.  We have BIMcloud Basic, which is set up in its own server.

I'm wondering if we could set up a new BIMcloud in a different server/computer so that we could keep both the AC24 and AC29 teamwork files.

Our office is a Mac office.

Thank you for any advice the community can provide!

[Ricardo Lopez]

Hi @jrmrt 

BIMcloud basic has a limitation: you must install a full new instance of BIMcloud Manager with its correspondant BIMcloud Server for each Archicad version you need. It means an IP for each component (see feature comparison)

This wouldn't be a problem for BIMcloud or BIMclous SaaS because they support multiple versions by BIMcloud Manager component. Anyway an individual BIMcloud Server would be neccesary to install for each Archicad version.

So for BIMcloud basic a new version means a new BIMcloud clean setup.

[Lingwisyer]

Just instal a new instance of BimCloud Basic and Manager on your server as you did previously. Whether it be on the same server or a new one should not really make a difference. It will automatically assign to new ports if it is on the same server, if you do not want to pick your own. Create your first user, then go back to your AC24 instance and export your user list. Import it into the new instance and you are good to go. I have an AC22, 28 and 29 instance running, not sure if there is a limit to the number of Basic activations.

Ling.

[Stefan L_]

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@Lingwisyer  schrieb:

... not sure if there is a limit to the number...

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Probably not. 😉

We are running 19-27 on the same machine.

[Noemi Balogh]

There's no hard limit of number of activations on one computer, but depending on some factors (e.g. number of active projects, number of projects hosted, number of active users, hardware spec. of the server, etc.) you might want to check how many installation you make. 

In this current situation if the server is running on more resource than the bare minimum, I think hosting two BIMcloud Basics should be fine.

[Lingwisyer]

no hard limit of number of activations on one computer

I was thinking more along the lines of activations per user, though I guess if you are needing that many activations, you would have more users that could activate it.

more resource than the bare minimum

Yeah, when ever setting things like this up, consideration needs to be taking for not only the number of users, something that might not change, but the additional overhead for each instance.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Recommended-Hardware-for-BIMcloud-Basic/ta-p...

*Has not been updated to Win11 / macOS26

Ling.