Revit Suite 2012 NLM installation and Building Design Suite NLM license

[danielle.roberts]

Hi

Last year our company migrated most of their licenses to one of the Autodesk Design Suites. We're a large company with users spread out in different branches all over the country. Recently I had a lady 1000's of km's away phone me to ask for a Revit Architecture network installation. My initial thought was to give her a Building Design Suite license, but after attempting to copy the 12GB+ installation deployment across our less than 500kbs line I thought it'd be smarter to rather copy across the 4GB installation files of Revit Architecture Suite 2012 and install that. I've managed to install AutoCAD 2012 (not part of a Suite) and run it off my network Suite licenses, so thought I'd be able to do the same in this case.

For some reason though it refuses to pick up any licenses from the network. Is this expected and is there a way around this?

[DarrenP · Accepted solution]

this is a known issue: http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2011/08/autodesk-suites-building-design-suite-2012-doesnt...

you have to install autocad from the building design suite for the licensing to work

[TravisNave]

Yep.  And even when you get that working, because of the distance and the slow link, you'll need to increase the amount of time the client polls the server.  Add a system environment variable called FLEXLM_TIMEOUT and give it a value of 1000000 to start, increasing by a million (one-second) as needed for latency.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=7574782&linkID=9240617