topic Re: What is ACAD Private in Installation & Licensing Forum

What is ACAD Private

fihansen — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:20:02 GMT

I have taking a license report and on this report there is a lot of appications called ACAD Private XX.X.

We have a lote of users who has different AutoDesk applications but all those users also have this ACAD Private.

What is ACAD Private and do the users need this when they have a AutoDesk license.

Can we remove it from the the machines and if how on Windows 10?

Re: What is ACAD Private

DarrenP — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:47:26 GMT

Where are you seeing this?

what report are you talking about?

Re: What is ACAD Private

fihansen — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:03:11 GMT

We have Flexera License Manager and if we choice AutoDesk products there comes a lot of AutoCAD products where we have license but there is many users who has this ACAD Private, ACAD Private 22, 23, 23.1?

Re: What is ACAD Private

fihansen — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:02:34 GMT

I thought it was a simple question with "What is ACAD Private?" Is there really nobody who can tell me?

Re: What is ACAD Private

m_latz — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:00:49 GMT

The AutoCAD installation consists of several MSI packages:

AutoCAD 2020 (acad.msi)
AutoCAD 2020 language pack (AcadLP.msi)
...
ACAD Private (AcadPrivate.msi)
AutoCAD 2020 - <language> (AcadPS.msi)
...

And the "ACAD Private" package is one of the msi packages contained in a full AutoCAD (Aca, Mec, Ele, ...) installation.

If there is any AutoCAD installed on your pc you can uninstall this msi package.

Is your question answered ?

regards

Markus

Re: What is ACAD Private

fihansen — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:15:31 GMT

OK, i will try to uninstall it. But my question about "What is ACAD Private " is not answered. What is the use of it?

Re: What is ACAD Private

m_latz — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:46:48 GMT

"What is ACAD Private" ?

It is a msi installation package which is a required part of an AutoCAD installation. The msi package installs required files for AutoCAD, without this msi package AutoCAD can't run.

The "use of it" is, that the msi package installs required files for the AutoCAD program.

Example from real world: "What are the wheel bolts on my car used for ?" Try to drive without ...

regards

Markus

Re: What is ACAD Private

afr7VUTAW — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:58:13 GMT

I accidentally deleted acadprivate.msi. How do I get it back? Like where can I redownload it?

Re: What is ACAD Private

leowarren34 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:51:42 GMT

Hi @afr7VUTAW,

It's included in the full installer for AutoCAD, which you can find at https://manage.autodesk.com/ or https://ava.autodesk.com/

Re: What is ACAD Private

rockyl_TF — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:18:25 GMT

So it's integral, but we don't know what it does... Why did you advise to uninstall it two posts ago

"If there is any AutoCAD installed on your pc you can uninstall this msi package."