Installation Procedure

Step 1: Install the Database Server

Install your database according to the procedure its manufacturer suggests.

Step 2: Install Archibus and the Tomcat Application Server

Web Central installs as a standard JEE servlet component beneath your application server. As such, your chief reference is the documentation that came with your application server, which covers topics such as JEE security and Web-server integration.

Step 3: Configure Archibus

Once you know the reference installation works, consider these configuration options for your deployment.

Step 4: Install the Smart Client and Configure AutoCAD or Revit

Optionally install the Remote Client and Remote Client Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit on the "power user" workstation.

Note : After installing AutoCAD, you must launch the application before setting it as the default CAD tool. If you do not first launch the application, it does not appear in the list of CAD applications to select as a preference. However, it is not necessary to launch Revit before selecting it as a preference.

  1. In Smart Client, invoke the Preferences command.
  2. Click the CAD Application option; it lists all of the AutoCAD or Revit versions installed on your workstation.
  3. Set the CAD Application value to the program you wish to use.  The Smart Client will register the Smart Client Extension with that application.
  4. Start AutoCAD or Revit.

If you use multiple CAD applications (say both AutoCAD and Revit), set the preference before you use each application. You do not need to restart the Smart Client.

If you start AutoCAD or Revit very quickly after changing the CAD Application preference, the preference will not yet be written to the registry, and the Extensions will not load. If this happens, just restart AutoCAD or Revit to pick up the registry changes.

Note: To use the Extension for AutoCAD or Extension for Revit, a user must sign into an account that has its Use CAD/BIM License? property set to "Yes - Extensions". Web Central users can see whether they have this license from the My Profile command. Administrators can set which users have this license from the System / Archibus Administrator / Add or Edit Users task.

Note : If you uninstall and reinstall Archibus, on start-up AutoCAD may show a dialog stating "An executable file was found outside of the specified trusted locations". If so, press the "Load" button on that dialog. You can resolve the situation by re-selecting your AutoCAD version as the "CAD Application" from the Archibus Smart Client Preferences command. Alternately, you can use the Files tab of AutoCAD PREFERENCES command, and add your Archibus location (e.g. "c:\Program Files (x86)\archibus\2x.x\SmartClient\acad\" ) to your list of Trusted Locations.

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