Problems with BIMcloud as a Service if you have multiple files on different BIMcloud servers

[marcoariveross]

Problems with BIMcloud as a Service if you have multiple files on different BIMcloud servers

Greetings everyone.

I have an issue I'd like to address. I use my license at a company during the week, during business hours, and I collaborate with two companies in Chile as a guest on their BIMcloud as a Service servers.

Sometimes I'm publishing or simply sending and receiving information (quite a lot), and I want to be able to work on another project on a different BIMcloud server... The problem is that it doesn't allow me to be connected to more than one server.

If I'm on the same machine with my Archicad Collaborate license, it seems absurd to limit the user from taking advantage of BIMcloud's downtime and working on other projects.

Even opening two projects on a guest server is random; sometimes it allows it, sometimes it doesn't, it simply disconnects one or the other without any pattern or logic.

Has anyone had a similar problem? If so, did you find a solution? Or is it simply Graphisoft's desire to make life more difficult for legitimate Archicad users...?

[max_min]

Based on my experience, unless you have multiple licenses, only one BIMcloud project can be Online at a time.

When a project from BIMcloud 1 is Online, your license is being used to access that BIMcloud. Because of this, the same license cannot also be used for an Online project from BIMcloud 2 at the same time.

As a workaround, you can switch one project to Offline in the Teamwork Palette before opening or working Online in the other project.

For example, you could leave one project Online while it finishes S/R or publishing, and work Offline in the other project while you wait. Once the Online project finishes S/R or Publish, close that project or switch it Offline, then switch the other project back Online.

[MinhNguyen]

It's an unfortunate limitation, documented here: