Auto CAD setup

[KGC]

Currently our office is set up so that each seat of auto cad is an individual seat. But we are slowly re writing our standards and trying to become a little more organized. What are some of the benefits for having a shared network license .


Thanks,

Kenton

[cadtag]

saving money. If you've only got a few people, you wont' see any savings, but the more users, especially part-time/occasional users you have, the better the savings works out. for standalone, 10 licenses eq 10 computers running AutoCAD, even if one of those computers is using MS Word for a week, that license is till installed and not being used.

With a network license, that's not the case. the total number of users can exceed the total number of licenses (just not concurrently). In my previous employment, I adminstered the cad licenses for 700 users in 60 US offices, using a dozen distributed license servers (mostly old P-II and P-III boxes running Win2K). We had 300 or so seats, so they were seeing a more than 50 percent savings in license and subscription costs over standalone. Figuring $3500/seat - license costs were reduced by 1.4 million. annual subscription about $140K/year that they didn't send to adesk.

(I shoulda asked for a percentage.....)

[KGC]

Thats it though, there is no benefit otherwise.

With standalone i can sill have a central location for my libraries, and CAD Standards, and thing like that. The network wont make that easier?

Thanks,

[rkmcswain]

Thats it though, there is no benefit otherwise.

With standalone i can sill have a central location for my libraries, and CAD Standards, and thing like that. The network wont make that easier?

Thanks,

You may be confusing network licensing with networking your support files.

When AutoCAD fires up, it looks for a license. With standalone licensing, the license is on the local machine, no network connection is required. With network licensing, AutoCAD is going to search for a license manager and pull a license (if there is one available).

After that point, both systems run alike. You can store support files on a network location and add this path to you support file search path.

More details here on that: http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2006/07/autocad-customization-setup-and.html

[KGC]

Thats what i thought, i just wanted to confirm and clear that up.

Thanks,

I appreciate the link too