civil 3d 2008 on terminal

[Anonymous]

i contacted tech support for autocad and they advised me they would not offer any help for terminal installs. My question to them was "will it work?" they couldn't give me a straight answer. I'm really not looking for step-by-step instructions, but i need to know if i have 4 remote workstations, will they run.

[Anonymous]

Autodesk won't give you an answer because according to the EULA, it's
illegal. I've been through this before, and it's in no way supported.

As far as "will it work" - once you step into that unsupported territory,
you're totally on your own. All I can suggest is that if you're
determined, you'll try it no matter what anyone says, then you'll be able to
figure out the answer yourself.

--
Jason Hickey
www.civil3d.com
www.eng-eff.com


"jmknight" wrote in message news:5822299@discussion.autodesk.com...
i contacted tech support for autocad and they advised me they would not
offer any help for terminal installs. My question to them was "will it
work?" they couldn't give me a straight answer. I'm really not looking for
step-by-step instructions, but i need to know if i have 4 remote
workstations, will they run.

[Anonymous]

well no equipment has been bought and its not a matter of being determined, its more of a matter of being efficient. Do they offer terminal version of civil 3D? since its against eula to run it on one.

[Anonymous]

No, no terminal version is offered.

Since the terminal is just that - a dumb terminal, the program has to be
running on the server - multiple times if multiple people are using it.
With the system resource requirements of Civil 3D, I would imagine one would
see severely degraded performance unless the server could support it - which
is doubtful. Server requirements and Civil 3D requirements are on a
totally different wavelength. If it's a cost-saving attempt, I think the
cost savings would hardly be worth it. Are there any more reasons one
would want to run it on a terminal? What kind of efficiency would you hope
to expect?

--
Jason Hickey
www.civil3d.com
www.eng-eff.com


"jmknight" wrote in message news:5823462@discussion.autodesk.com...
well no equipment has been bought and its not a matter of being determined,
its more of a matter of being efficient. Do they offer terminal version of
civil 3D? since its against eula to run it on one.

[bquinney1]

Very good points (as always), Jason. I would imagine that the extremely poor performance would totally negate any desired and expected benefits that Civil 3D has to offer.