Starting with Hotfix 4 Preview of Archicad 15 deployed installation is also possible. On Windows platforms you need to use the MSI package available for each published update. You can download the needed MSI package from bottom of this page. On Mac platforms you can use the regular update package and deploy it via Apple Remote Desktop.
Deploying updates onto Windows computers by using MSI packages
Follow these steps to remotely install update on all of the computers of a network with a separate domain. You can distribute the new .msi installer package to all of the Archicad’s in your network by a Group Policy on the server machine.
- From the bottom of this page download and copy the .msi installer to a shared folder on the server (all of the user machines must have reading-writing permission to that folder)
- On the server, the administrator has to add a new Group Policy Object to the domain by using the Group Policy Management application
- Edit the Group Policy Object: set a ‘software installation’ and choose the .msi file
- It’s very important that, the application’s properties must be set to: ‘Install this application at Logon’ and ‘Ignore language when deploying this package’
- Set user interface options to ‘Basic’
- For older versions 32 bit and 64 bit version of the installer are available. If you have both 32 bit and 64 bit machines, separate Group Policy Objects have to be created for both of them. When installing the 32 bit version, in the dialogue, ‘Apply 32 bit version for 64 bit machines’ checkbox must be off. For 64 bit version, this checkbox must be on.
- If you have different language versions, the installer can find a specific language version if you create a text file next to the installer. The name must be ‘searchlanguage.txt’ and must contain the name of the language, GER for example if you want to find German version Archicads. You may have to create several Group Policy Objects: one for each language version with its own text file. Please note that if you don´t do this, only one language will be updated.
With this process, all machines in the network will be updated at Log on, silently.(In some cases log on/log off may be not enough, the machines have to be restarted). The users will only sense that desktop icons, taskbar appears a little bit later.
You can check whether the update has been installed on the user machines, or on the server, checking the ‘autoupdate.log’ file next to the .msi installer (just like next to the normal .exe update).
Deploying updates onto Mac’s via Apple Remote Desktop
On Mac, there is no separate installer package for remote install. We suggest to use Apple Remote Desktop application. In this application you can send Unix commands to user machines. This way the update installer can be run on user machines remotely from a server.
Please, follow these steps:
- In Terminal run the command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c “Add :Java:Properties:user.language string en” “<folder_path_of_hotfix_installer>/Archicad-<version>-Update-<buildno>.app/Contents/Info.plist”
- Copy the update installer to a shared folder called for example “achotfix”. All of the users on the client machines must have read-write permissions to that folder
- Archicad must not run on the user machines
- Open Apple Remote Desktop
- Open the list of the machines in the network (machines must be running), choose those, that have to be updated
- Open UNIX command dialogue
- Run/choose a user who has admin rights for all of the machines
- Place the following lines into the “Send Unix command” window:
mkdir /Volumes/Install
mount_smbfs //username_of_administrator:password@machinename/achotfix /Volumes/Install/
/Volumes/Install/ACversion-buildnumber-HOTFIXindex-MAC.app/Contents/MacOS/Archicad-<version>-Update-<buildno> -silent -english -nowarning
umount /Volumes/Install
Download MSI package for Archicad 21 and earlier
Important information regarding Archicad 22 Updates: With the introduction of Archicad 22 and the implementation of our new installation method, Archicad 22 Updates for all languages support unattended installation. Therefore, no seperate MSI packages are required to deploy updates for Archicad 22. For additional information regarding the changes and available install switches, please visit this Help Center article.
| Download | Language | Windows 64 – bit | Last modified |
| Archicad 21 Update 8002 |
|
778 MB | Jul 29, 2019 |
| Archicad 21 Update 8002 |
|
737 MB | Jul 29, 2019 |
| Archicad 21 Update 7000 |
|
796 MB | Oct 08, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 7000 |
|
754 MB | Nov 27, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 6013 |
|
776 MB | July 17, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 6013 |
|
735 MB | July 27, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 5021 |
|
753 MB | Feb 7, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 5021 |
|
706 MB | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Archicad 21 Update 4022 |
|
731 MB | Sept 26, 2017 |
| Archicad 20 Update 8005 |
|
800 MB | Aug 6, 2018 |
| Archicad 20 Update 7005 |
|
780 MB | Mar. 1, 2018 |
| Archicad 20 Update 6005 |
|
717 MB | June 15, 2017 |
| Archicad 20 Update 5025 |
|
581 MB | Feb 22, 2017 |
| Archicad 20 Update 4020 |
|
436 MB | Nov 16, 2016 |
| Archicad 20 Update 4009 |
|
424 MB | Sept 20, 2016 |
| Download | Language | Windows 32 – bit | Windows 64 – bit | Last modified |
| Archicad 19 Update 9001 |
|
– | 547 MB | May 31, 2017 |
| Archicad 19 Update 8000 |
|
– | 500 MB | Feb 22, 2017 |
| Archicad 19 Update 7014 |
|
– | 500 MB | Nov 16, 2016 |
| Archicad 19 Update 7006 |
|
– | 500 MB | Sept 20, 2016 |
| Archicad 19 Update 6006 |
|
– | 489 MB | Jun 9, 2016 |
| Archicad 19 Update 5005 |
|
– | 466 MB | Feb 15, 2016 |
| Archicad 19 Update 4013 |
|
– | 87.4 MB | Nov 26, 2015 |
| Archicad 19 Update 4011 |
|
– | 415.0 MB | Oct 27, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 9019 |
|
– | 438.0 MB | Jun 22, 2016 |
| Archicad 18 Update 9013 |
|
– | 438.0 MB | Apr 26, 2016 |
| Archicad 18 Update 8004 |
|
– | 434.0 MB | Feb 15, 2016 |
| Archicad 18 Update 7007 |
|
– | 419.0 MB | Oct 27, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 6000 |
|
– | 404.0 MB | July 1, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 5100 |
|
– | 393.0 MB | Apr 8, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 5100 |
|
– | 393.0 MB | Mar 26, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 5014 |
|
– | 394.0 MB | Mar 18, 2015 |
| Archicad 18 Update 4034 |
|
– | 387.5 MB | Dec 9, 2014 |
| Archicad 18 Update 4020 |
|
– | 387.5 MB | Oct 30, 2014 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 8 (Build 8000) |
|
– | 262.0 MB | Jan 6, 2015 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 7 (Build 6004) |
|
– | 262.1 MB | May 5, 2014 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 6 (Build 5019) |
|
– | 260.5 MB | Jan 30, 2014 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 5 (Build 5014) |
|
– | 254.3 MB | Jan 20, 2014 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 4 (Build 5005) |
|
– | 254.0 MB | Dec 9, 2013 |
|
– | 254.4 MB | Dec 11, 2013 | |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 3 (Build 4008) |
|
– | 39.7 MB | Oct 15, 2013 |
|
– | 41.2 MB | Oct 18, 2013 | |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 2 (Build 4005) |
|
– | 225.0 MB | Sept 17, 2013 |
| Archicad 17 Hotfix 1 (Build 3013) |
|
– | 202.9 MB | June 24, 2013 |
|
– | 207.4 MB | July 15, 2013 | |
| Archicad 16 Hotfix 5 (Build 4010) |
|
263.3 MB | 284.0 MB | Sept 30, 2013 |
| Archicad 16 Hotfix 4 (Build 3827) |
|
263.1 MB | 283.8 MB | June 27, 2013 |
| Archicad 16 Hotfix 3 (Build 3487) |
|
170.7 MB | 190.2 MB | March 4, 2013 |
| Archicad 16 Hotfix 2 (Build 3270) |
|
153.3 MB | 170.6 MB | Oct 4, 2012 |
|
153.3 MB | 170.6 MB | Oct 9, 2012 | |
| Archicad 16 Hotfix 1 (Build 3014) |
|
133.1 MB | 149.4 MB | July 18, 2012 |
| Archicad 15 Hotfix 5 (build 4056) |
|
136.3 MB | 159.6 MB | Jan 3, 2013 |
| Archicad 15 Hotfix 4 (build 3898) |
|
136.3 MB | 159.6 MB | May 18, 2012 |