Licensing and upgrades

[tfranson]

Good day,

In our office we are currently running Revit 9.1, Revit 2008 and Revit 2009.

We have finally convinced some of our consultants to get on board with BIM and on one of our new projects, one of our engineering consultants has done his work in 2010. We also have Revit 2010 but have yet to install it. After browbeating our consultants to switch to Revit, we do not want to tell them to redo the work in 2009 for obvious reasons, but our IT has concerns about installing 2010 and maintaining the older versions.

Does anybody know if we install 2010, will we lose the ability to run 9.1 and / or 2008? We still have projects on the boards and in construction that were done with 9.1 and 2008 which is why we have concerns.

Any help with this matter would be much appreciated.

[greg.mcdowell]

2009 and 2010 can coexist on the same computer without problems. The real thing to consider is content. 2010 content won't be useable in 2009 so keeping them separate (but equal?) might be something you'll want to deal with.

[wmullett]

You may have a license issue. The new network license for 2010 will only serve for 3 releases. That would be 2010, 2009 and 2008. You can still run something lower but you may have to sacrifice a network license to have a stand alone.

BTW - The network license is for bot AutoCAD and Revit so the same releases on both at the same time.

[tfranson]

Thanks for the info.