In this lesson, you will learn how to create and manage a Graebert account, which is essential for accessing the ARES Trinity suite of CAD tools. You will discover how to activate a 30-day trial for ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, and ARES Touch, or how to add a purchased license to your account.

The lesson will also guide you through navigating the Graebert Customer Portal and using various buttons and menus to manage your account settings, language preferences, and licenses. Whether you are a new user or already have a Graebert account, this lesson will help you fully utilize your ARES Trinity experience.

Objectives:

• Setting Up and Managing a Graebert Account:
  • Learn how to create a free Graebert account, which enables you to activate a 30-day trial period for ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, and ARES Touch, or to add purchased licenses.
  • Understand how to navigate the Graebert Customer Portal, including how to sign up, log in, and manage your account details.
• Activating Licenses and Trials:
  • Learn how to activate a trial version of ARES Trinity products or add a purchased license.
  • Understand how activating a trial in one product automatically activates it for the entire ARES Trinity suite (ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, ARES Touch).
• Navigating and Using Account Features:
  • Discover how to check the status of trials, licenses, and activated devices within your Graebert account.
  • Learn how to use the Language drop-down menu to set the language preferences for ARES Kudo.

Functions in buttons and dialogs that you will learn in this lesson:

• "Complete and Continue" Button:
  • Click to finish a lesson and proceed to the next topic.
• "SIGN UP" Button:
  • Used to create a new Graebert account from the Customer Portal on the Graebert website.
• "VALIDATE PERMISSION KEY" Button:
  • Used to activate a purchased license by entering the key in the "My Products" section.
• Language Drop-down Menu:
  • Used to set language preferences for your profile and ARES Kudo.

Mouse functions that you will learn in this lesson:

• Navigating through the Graebert Customer Portal to create and manage an account.
• Using buttons and menus in the ARES software products to log in, activate trials, and manage licenses.
  

If you already have a Graebert account set up, you can move to the end of the lesson and complete the QUIZ. When you do it, you can press the "Complete and Continue" button that appears at the end of the lesson and at the top right of the page of the course.

0102.01 - When you answer the QUIZ, you will be able to click the “Complete and Continue” button to finish the lesson and jump to the next topic.

Note: It is only activated after completing the QUIZ. If you don't know the answers to the QUIZ, you should watch the video first.

Topic notes

Creating a Graebert account is a simple, free process. Once you do so, you will be able to activate the 30-day trial periods for ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, and ARES Touch — or add the licenses you have purchased for these programs — and begin enjoying the advantages of ARES Trinity.
Each product has a login button, and among your options is the ability to create a Graebert account if you don't already have one. 

Note: If you haven't downloaded and installed the programs yet, you should complete the “Read me first” course before continuing. (Click here for access).

0102.02 - Login in ARES Commander.

0102.03 - Login in ARES Kudo.

0102.04 - Login in ARES Touch.

We can also create a free Graebert account from the website, www.graebert.com. To do this, we click on Customer Portal.

0102.05 - Customer Portal link on the home page of Graebert.com.

This box will allow us to sign in; it’s similar to the one we will find when logging in from any of the Graebert products. But in this case, we are interested in creating a new account, so we click on SIGN UP instead.

0102.06 - Customer Portal in Graebert.com.

Now we just have to fill out the registration form.

0102.07 - Registration form for creating a new Graebert account.

All that remains is to accept the link sent automatically to the email account registered.

0102.08 - Activation email for creating a new account.

Once we activate the new account and log in, we can see that the My Trials and My Products sections are empty. This is because this account has not yet added any paid licenses, nor activated a 30-day trial.

0102.10 - The My Products section is also empty.

If you have purchased a license, paste the key number in the white box, and click VALIDATE PERMISSION KEY.
In this other example, you can see two active plugins have been added in the My Products section.

0102.11 - Product licenses added.

If you have activated any trial version of the ARES Trinity products — that is, ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, or ARES Touch — they will appear in the My Trials section of your account.

0102.12 - My Trials section.

In the Devices section, you will be able to see when the licenses have been activated, and on which devices.

0102.13 - Devices section.

In the Profile section, you can add more data to your user profile if you wish. Pay attention to the Language drop-down menu, since it not only allows you to modify the language of this box, but also serves to set the language for ARES Kudo.

0102.14 - Profile section.