Licensing

ArtiCAD no longer provides SuperPro dongles with ArtiCAD, in favour of providing detachable software keys.

This dialog is not available when using a SuperPro dongle to license ArtiCAD. To open the dialog go to FILE->activate. It also pops up automatically if your system has no form of licensing on it.

• Activation Code
• Import V2C/H2R
• Network Detach
• Cancel
• Receipts

Activation Code

When you come to activate your trial into a full system, ArtiCAD will give you an activation code, you can enter the code into the edit box adjacent to Product Key: and click the activate button.

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Import V2C/C2V

Import a Supplied V2C File

If ArtiCAD ever send you a file with a ".V2C" file extension, you can use this tab to locate it and submit it. First click on Locate V2C... and locate the V2C file on your harddisk. Then click open, then click Import. This will update the licensing on your computer.

Search For Online Updates

ArtiCAD will often issue license updates via the web. Clicking this button will search the web for license updates for your machine and install them. This automatically happens when you launch the ARtiCAD program, so pressing this button is performing the same checks and operations as when ArtiCAD is launched.

Request For Monthly Licensing (SA Only)

If ArtiCAD is running on a monthly rental, you can click this button within 10 days of the expiry date to request the next month's rental. It will be processed automatically on a healthy account and a new license will be issued online within minutes. You should receive an email to tell you when it is ready and you can install it simply by launching ArtiCAD or pressing the Search For Online Updates button.

Network Licensing

When you purchase ArtiCAD, you will receive a number of network detachable software license to run it with. By default the licensing is installed on the computer that you entered the activation code on, but you can temporarily transfer the license to another machine for specified periods of time. This can be useful if you want the software licensing to behave as a dongle would.

Having a network license also means that any computer plugged into the network can use/detach a license on the computer you installed the licensing on, as long as it is visible on the network.

In the combo box under the label The licensing to detach from: is a list of licensing that your computer can see and attempt to detach licensing from. Clicking the button Detach License will attempt the detach. It may fail if all licensing is already being used on that machine, or for some reason the machine is no longer visible e.g If you unplugged the ethernet cable after launching the activation dialog.

Sometimes you may wish to transfer licensing between two computers that never see each other and are not actually on the same LAN. This scenario could be where you have a home computer and a work computer and you do not have a VPN set up so that they see each other on a network. In this case, you will need an alternative to detaching directly from the network. The alternative procedure goes something like this:

• 1. Consider which computers that the licensing will need to be transferred to (not including the one you originally entered the actoivation code on)
• 2. Obtain a plain USB Memory Stick that you can keep and use to transfer licensing.
• 3. Go to each of the computers separately, plug in the USB memory stick, open the activation dialog, go to the Network Detach tab and click the button Add this client machine USB memory stick. This will create an .id file on the stick with the hostname as a filename. As long as these files are present on the usb stick, you will always be able to detach a license for that machine.
• 4. Once this is completed for all machines. You are now ready to detach licensing from your licensed computer. Plug the USB memory stick into the licensed machine and open the activation dialog. You will see a new combobox has appeared with a button under it. In the combo box is a list of all the machines that you added to the stick. In other words, a list of all the machines that you want to detach licensing for.
• 5. Choose one of the machines and click the Save to USB Memory Stick button.
• 6. By default ArtiCAD will attempt to write to all USB drives that are plugged in. You will be notified if at least one succeeded or if none succeeded. This creates a .h2r file on the USB memory stick, it's filename consists of the hasp id followed by the name of the client machine.
• 7. Plug the memory stick into the client machine. Launch ArtiCAD. The licensing should have installed automatically and ArtiCAD will launch. Your license has been transferred from the licensed machine to the client machine. If you are only licensed for one ArtiCAD, ArtiCAD may now be unlicensed on the originally licensed machine. When the license expires on the client machine it gets automatically transferred back to the originally licensed machine. You can also search for licenses on a USB stick using the Search for license detachments on USB stick button.

Cancel Tab

Sometimes you may detach a license for a period of time, then decide that you don't need it for that time and you want to return it to your original computer/network. Rather than have to wait the full term of your detachment you can cancel the license early. If all the computers that are transferring licensing are visible to each other on your LAN (ie all plugged into the same router) then cancelling is a simple matter of selecting the license ID in the combo box and clicking the Cancel License button.

If the computers are not visible to each other on the network, then you may have to follow the alternative procedure using your USB memory stick as described above. Which goes something like the following:

• 1. Plug in your USB memory stick into the computer that you are cancelling the license from
• 2. Open the activation dialog in ArtiCAD, go to the Cancel tab, select the license you are cancelling and click Cancel.
• 3. If this machine really cannot see the originally licensed machine on the network, it will automatically save a file .r2h file to the USB memory stick and notify you when it has done so.
• 4. Now take the USB stick out and put it on the originally licensed computer, either launch ArtiCAD to automatically apply the cancellation on the USB memory stick, or go to the Cancel tab in the activation dialog and click the Search for Cancellations on USB memory stick. This should install the file and delete it from the USB stick.
• 5. The license from the client machine shouldl be cancelled and returned to the network pool on the originally licensed machine

Receipts

This tab is a way to export a C2V (Customer to Vendor) file that proves what licensing is on your machine. You can export a receipt for a hardware dongle or a software dongle respectively and save it to disk. If you are online then you can also click Send C2V to ArtiCAD which will post it to the servers at ArtiCAD.

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