Licence upgrade

[Anonymous]

I am the only Architecture user in my office and want to add a seat, I understand that the 'stand alone licence' we currently have is for one seat, do we need to purchase a new licence or is it possible to upgrade the current licence to cover an additional 1 or 2 seats?

The cost of a new licence is prohibitive however if there is a way of upgrading for a fee it may be more reasonable.

Thanks

Simon

[Anonymous]

Buying multiple seats doesn't kick in for a discount until 5 or 10 seats (can't remember for Autodesk) And even then the discount isn't that great. The real advantage to multi-user licenses is that in a larger office with let's say 25 users, 20 licenses may be enough because the users aren't all using at the same time. 2 may be out of the office. 2 in a meeting and 1 out sick. An office study with some statistical analysis will indicate the optimum number of licenses. BUT once in a blue moon, for example on a tight deadline for a major project you may find that the statistical projection will be wrong and you need 1 or more licenses than your system is able to distribute. That's when you start kicking yourself for being too cheap for your own good.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that, the idea is to have a second machine purely for rendering, so I guess the cost will be the cost of an additional licence, not really cost effective.

[Anonymous]

Does the rendering machine have to be Architecture? I believe that if you create with architecture you export to autocad and render the results with regular acad. May be wrong there, but check it out.