By purchasing subscriptions in the Graphisoft Store, you will be able to use a cloud license-based BIMcloud SaaS, a modern cloud-hosted collaboration environment that supports efficient project sharing and presentation workflows.
If you are a customer who has already been using BIMcloud (whether it's BIMcloud Basic, on-premises BIMcloud, or BIMcloud SaaS using a key-based license) then you will need to manually move your data to your new cloud licence-based BIMcloud SaaS.
Moving Teamwork Projects and Libraries
Moving Teamwork Projects and Libraries
Any Teamwork project or library can be easily exported from the existing BIMcloud and imported into the new BIMcloud SaaS.
When exporting/importing Teamwork projects and libraries, snapshots can be included and transferred along with the projects and libraries.
However, as a precaution, we recommend saving your Teamwork projects as solo PLN/PLA files, which can then be reshared to the BIMcloud SaaS.
After moving the Teamwork projects, all linked elements (hotlinks, drawings, libraries) hosted on the existing BIMcloud must be relinked with the new paths on the new BIMcloud SaaS.
To improve the performance of your Teamwork Projects, we recommend the following:
- Saving your Teamwork Project as PLN/PLA files and resharing them will decrease the size of your Teamwork Project, which can improve performance.
- Updating the linked drawings (both internal and external) can enhance the performance of a moved Teamwork Project.
- Republishing PMK files could also help improve the performance of a moved Teamwork Project.
BIMcloud Help article
Moving Files
If your current BIMcloud serves as a File Server (whether it's on-premises or BIMcloud SaaS) and you store files (PLN, MOD, PDF, JPEG, etc.) on it, you need to move these files to the new BIMcloud SaaS.
You can select the files from your current BIMcloud, download them locally (From any selected item in the Projects tree, click 'Download'), and then upload them to the new BIMcloud SaaS.
BIMcloud Help article
Moving Users and Groups
For cloud license-based BIMcloud SaaS, user management is based on the Graphisoft ID Company. Every BIMcloud user is automatically synced from the Graphisoft ID Company, and manual user creation is not possible inside the BIMcloud SaaS Manager.
Therefore, there is no need to transfer users from your existing BIMcloud; only your Graphisoft ID Company needs to be up-to-date. Every user who requires access to the new cloud licenses (Archicad and BIMcloud) must be a member of your Graphisoft ID Company.
BIMcloud User groups cannot be imported to a cloud license-based BIMcloud SaaS, so if you had user groups previously, you will need to manually recreate them in the new BIMcloud SaaS.
However, BIMcloud SaaS offers several default user groups with predefined accesses to help you set up the necessary permissions and accesses.
Related articles
- Graphisoft ID FAQ
- New user management with cloud license-based BIMcloud SaaS
- Default user groups on BIMcloud SaaS
Moving Roles
Roles can be easily exported from the existing BIMcloud and imported to the new BIMcloud SaaS. However, BIMcloud SaaS provides several default roles with predefined accesses for default groups to help you set up the permissions and accesses you need.
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Moving Accesses
The permissions set on the Access panels cannot be transferred to another BIMcloud; they have to be reset after setting up the new BIMcloud SaaS. However, the default user groups with predefined accesses are available to help you set up the right permissions and accesses.