Simple Question Regarding Licensing and Deployment

[paltomare]

I have recently purchased 2 networks seats of 2015 BDSP with Maintenance Sub, and 8 network seats of 2015 Architecture with Maintenance Sub.

My goal is to have Revit and Architecture (both included with BDSP) available to all staff, with the understanding only 2 instances of Revit and 8 instances of Arch can run concurrently.

My question is, if I install Architecture from BDSP on all machines will the network manager allow 8+2 instances?

Or, do I need to install Architecture separately from the BDSP install?

I realize the BDSP and standalone versions of Arch are identical but the product keys are different.

Thanks,

Paul

[DarrenP]

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@paltomare wrote:

My question is, if I install Architecture from BDSP on all machines will the network manager allow 8+2 instances?

 Thanks,

Paul

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yes the cascading does this automatically

Autocad architecture will grab the Autocad Architecture license first then when those 2 licenses are gone it will jump to BDSP

[DarrenP · Accepted solution]

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@paltomare wrote:

Or, do I need to install Architecture separately from the BDSP install?

Thanks,

Paul

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since these are network licenses

a separate Autocad Architecture deployment is not needed

[paltomare]

Perfect.

I thought it might work this way but wasn't sure.

This saves me some install time.

Thanks!