Cascadeing License question

[Anonymous]

I think I am about to run into licensing problems.
In the last year or so we have been reconfiguring our products, Trading Vanilla for Revit Systems or ABS etc.
As a result my supply of Vanilla licenses is on the low side.
As I understand the Cascade feature, If I launch ABS as Autocad the license manager will pull a Vanilla license instead of an ABS.
I would prefer that a license for the product installed be pulled.
Is this possible?

Option B "I'm an idiot, that's how it works"

[Anonymous]

If you launch ABS with the AutoCAD profile it will pull an ABS license. You
need to install vanilla AutoCAD to be able to grab a vanilla AutoCAD
license.
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"jpostlewait" wrote in message news:5608613@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think I am about to run into licensing problems.
In the last year or so we have been reconfiguring our products, Trading
Vanilla for Revit Systems or ABS etc.
As a result my supply of Vanilla licenses is on the low side.
As I understand the Cascade feature, If I launch ABS as Autocad the license
manager will pull a Vanilla license instead of an ABS.
I would prefer that a license for the product installed be pulled.
Is this possible?

Option B "I'm an idiot, that's how it works"

[Anonymous]

I thought the ballyhooed cascade feature would pull a less expensive Vanilla license and not a vertical license.
Maybe I'm option B.

[Anonymous]

I believe it works the other way around:
If you launch vanilla AutoCAD, and there are no vanilla AutoCAD licenses
available, it will look for a Revit license.

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com



wrote in message news:5608613@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think I am about to run into licensing problems.
In the last year or so we have been reconfiguring our products, Trading
Vanilla for Revit Systems or ABS etc.
As a result my supply of Vanilla licenses is on the low side.
As I understand the Cascade feature, If I launch ABS as Autocad the license
manager will pull a Vanilla license instead of an ABS.
I would prefer that a license for the product installed be pulled.
Is this possible?

Option B "I'm an idiot, that's how it works"

[Anonymous]

Thanks Drew.
Appreciate that.

[Anonymous]

Wait a minute on second thought.
Currently have 16 Vanilla, 4 ABS, 4 Revit systems,2 revit structure, licenses that all have cascade feature except Vanilla.

If the Say Revits and ABS's come in at seven and launch acad. 8 o'clock the vanilla crowd shows up what is available for them?

Makes sense for the Revit's etc launching acad only to eventually pull a vertical license but I'm looking at the other side.
And thanks for the help.

[TravisNave]

My question on the cascading feature is that if you remove the PLIST increment, will that actually disable the cascading? Might be worth a try...

[Anonymous]

I think I have figured my way out of this rock and a hard place.
Dawned on me that I have seven Vanilla licenses on a server in Chicago that are hardly used.
So I know I can change some Licpath.lic files and just pull the licenses from there.
My question is All of the installs are Single server installations.
Can I go ahead and add the system variable in the O/S or add the other servers in the registry as in a distributed network and have the program use this to pull licenses or will the local installs being single server installs prevent this from working?

Thanks in advance.

( one of the hidden costs of summer interns)

[Anonymous]

You should be just fine revising the env. variable. The installs don't care
if you are doing single server or distributed.

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com

wrote in message news:5613130@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think I have figured my way out of this rock and a hard place.
Dawned on me that I have seven Vanilla licenses on a server in Chicago that
are hardly used.
So I know I can change some Licpath.lic files and just pull the licenses
from there.
My question is All of the installs are Single server installations.
Can I go ahead and add the system variable in the O/S or add the other
servers in the registry as in a distributed network and have the program use
this to pull licenses or will the local installs being single server
installs prevent this from working?

Thanks in advance.

( one of the hidden costs of summer interns)

[Anonymous]

Thanks again.
I'll go that route.