Seeking Guidance on Licensing System for AutoCAD and Civil 3D Applications

luckyboy82292
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Seeking Guidance on Licensing System for AutoCAD and Civil 3D Applications

luckyboy82292
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Hi there,

I’ve developed some applications for AutoCAD and Civil 3D, and I’d like to protect them using a licensing system. Could someone shed some light on how I can achieve this?

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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luckyboy82292
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Please someone shed some lights on this. Thank you!

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norman.yuan
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"Protecting" your app is a very broad topic, leading to minimum, or to maximum effort, and very often, the cost of the effort would be far more than the app itself. For custom AutoCAD apps (or in general, apps based on Autodesk's products), the easier/simplest way to incorporate the license/entitlement mechanism into the apps is to use Autodesk's app store, which provides a ready-to-use custom app licensing infrastructure, accessible with very simple REST API:

 

https://aps.autodesk.com/app-store/publisher-center#:~:text=Anyone%20can%20submit%20a%20product,the%... 

 

 

Norman Yuan

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luckyboy82292
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Above image shows that how I want to implement my license. So how could I achieve this?

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jptallano
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Check LimeLm or Licence Spring, or maybe Flexnet / Flexlm if you have lots of money. 🙂

Those services provide a licensing management system with more or less copy/piracy protection.

One last thing: If your plugin was developed as a .NET dll, copy/piracy protection is basically impossible, as far as I know.

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Domzinator
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I use my online VPS with MySQL and approve every user manually to give them access. Depends on the needs required but this works for me 

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jptallano
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Good article about license managing systems vendors: https://licensespring.com/blog/other/licensespring-alternatives/

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luckyboy82292
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May you share your knowledge with me that how can I do the same as you? I just need the same method to license my application.

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Domzinator
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Not sure what what you want me to share. I have a sql database where i store the autodesk login username. When the person launches  my app for the first time my plugin automatically saved their username and i have to manually allow them access once they have registered.

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