Multiple users and collaboration

[Anonymous]

I am consulting with a company that needs autocad (Mechanical) as part of their core business.

One very basic requirement is that they need to have multiple users working with Autocad at the same time and on the same project. One person may work on the structural components of their product while another may work on the electrical or airflow component.

The company was told by a sales rep "Regarding networking, 2 people can not access the software at the same time". I do not know the context of that conversation - whether that was a restriction placed by the technical features of autocad, by a license restriction, or by the specifics of this companies network architecture.

It is hard for me to imagine that there is a restriction that broad placed by the technical features of autocad. At a minimum, I would expect that two different people could work on two different projects at the same time without conflict.

But, can someone address whether Autocad will address the requirement that I've specified above? Is there a licensing issue involved with collaboration? It seems to me that there has to have been something in the dialog between this company and the sales rep that explains the statement that she made.

[TravisNave]

To me it sounds like it should have been said, "two people cannot access the same file at the same time." For multiple users collaborating on a single project, you should consider using Autodesk Vault as a data management solution.

[DouglasLauritsen]

They may have been discussing standalone licensing. For standalone licensing a license is required for each installation of AutoCAD and only one user can access and use that installation. A separate license is required for each computer. An alternative is the use the Autodesk Network License Manager to float licenses. With this license model the customer can install AutoCAD on as many computers as they need to install it on and the license manager will float licenses to any of the computers in the install base while preventing the usage from going above the number of seats they have purchased.

Douglas Lauritsen, Autodesk Product Support

[Anonymous]

You can have multiple person on the same project if you use xref.
One xref for structural components, another for electrical and so on...
Not the best regarding Vault usage.

Franck Hervet


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> I am consulting with a company that needs autocad (Mechanical) as part of
> their core business.
>
> One very basic requirement is that they need to have multiple users
> working with Autocad at the same time and on the same project. One person
> may work on the structural components of their product while another may
> work on the electrical or airflow component.
>
> The company was told by a sales rep "Regarding networking, 2 people can
> not access the software at the same time". I do not know the context of
> that conversation - whether that was a restriction placed by the technical
> features of autocad, by a license restriction, or by the specifics of this
> companies network architecture.
>
> It is hard for me to imagine that there is a restriction that broad placed
> by the technical features of autocad. At a minimum, I would expect that
> two different people could work on two different projects at the same time
> without conflict.
>
> But, can someone address whether Autocad will address the requirement that
> I've specified above? Is there a licensing issue involved with
> collaboration? It seems to me that there has to have been something in
> the dialog between this company and the sales rep that explains the
> statement that she made.