Can civil 2008 running as autocad use an autocad 2008 network license?

[Anonymous]

Hello all.

I also want to know if Autocad will use a Civil license if there are no
Autocad licenses available?

I have just been offered Civil 3D 2008 network licenses for the same price
as Autocad 2008 network licenses. However, we do not really need the
functionality of Civil and it will be run mostly as basic Autocad. I am
concerned that, in the future, if we only purchase Autocad network licenses
we will run into problems or need to have 2 icons on every users desktop. I
have experienced this in the past at another employer and it wasn't
pleasant.

Cheers
Ian.

[Anonymous]

You cannot get vanilla AutoCAD licenses to use a Civil 3D license. It only
would work fine if all your licenses were Civil 3D.

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"Ian Macnaughtan" wrote in message
news:5771137@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Hello all.
>
> I also want to know if Autocad will use a Civil license if there are no
> Autocad licenses available?
>
> I have just been offered Civil 3D 2008 network licenses for the same price
> as Autocad 2008 network licenses. However, we do not really need the
> functionality of Civil and it will be run mostly as basic Autocad. I am
> concerned that, in the future, if we only purchase Autocad network
> licenses
> we will run into problems or need to have 2 icons on every users desktop.
> I
> have experienced this in the past at another employer and it wasn't
> pleasant.
>
> Cheers
> Ian.

[Anonymous]

> You cannot get vanilla AutoCAD licenses to use a Civil 3D license. It only
> would work fine if all your licenses were Civil 3D.

Thanks Jimmy.

I apologise for taking so long to reply. Unfortunately, this is what i
thought. I still have our reseller chasing this but i don't hold out much
hope.

I am going to rant now, so if you are not interested, stop here 🙂

This has been my major bugbear with Autocad network licensing for years! We
have a situation where we have a number of users that require Civil 3D
functionality and a number of users that only require Autocad functionality.
Many of these users only use the software 25% of the time. The advantage of
the network license is that we do not need to purchase a license for each of
these users. However, sometimes all the autocad users want to use their
software at the same time. Obviously some will not be able to use autocad
even though a Civil 3D licenses is available. If we want to avoid this
situation we are forced to purchase Civil 3D licenses for everyone and pay
significantly more for functionality that is not used!

Not a happy camper!
Ian.