License Borrowing

[cphubb]

Does anybody know who to check out a license with the new ADLM so one can work on their home computer in the evening? With 5.1 it was easy you just needed the fingerprint of your home computer. It seems that the license borrowing is only for network computers that may need to go off the network i.e. laptops.

Thanks
Chris

[rodneyf]

Chris,
I was looking for an aswer to this just yesterday and as I was wading through the many tutorials and help files I found it on the help menu under Autodesk Revit Help.

HTH,

[cphubb]

I'm not sure that really answers my question. Can you still borrow a license for a computer that does not have network access? Such as my home. The help files (both in Revit and ADLM) talk about the procedure, but how do I get my home computer to borrow?

Thanks

Chris

[Danny Polkinhorn]

Chris,

You need to connect your home computer to the network in order to access the license server. This can be done through a VPN if you have one, or by taking your computer to the office. Once your home machine can "see" the license server, you'll be able to borrow the license.

Use the License Borrowing Utility and borrow the license, launch Revit, and then complete the borrow back in the LBU. At that point you will have borrowed the license for the specified period (up to 30 days).

As you can see, this is no longer like the old process in 5.1 and earlier.

This is the process for AutoCAD, so I assume it's the same for the new licensing for Revit with ADLM.

HTH,

[Scott D Davis]

So there is no way to 'check out' a license to a disk or flash-drive to take home and load on the home computer? It would be a pain for me to bring in my home desktop computer, set up a new network connection for the office network, get a license, then take it all home and plug everything back in.

We were supposed to have a VPN set up over a year ago...still waiting.....

[PeterJ]

I was under the impression that you could check out a license to a floppy or usb key and take that to your nominated machine, but that you did need to have previously made the license server aware of that machine.

[Cathy Hadley]

I don't have any experience with it on a network, but when you borrow your stand alone license (per Safecast and Viz) you can indeed check it out to a floppy (or some such) and transport that to your second machine.

Sure hope that will work with a network install as well...

[aaronrumple]

Not with the networked evrsion of Revit 6.0. You sysetm has to be connected to the license server. There is no option to export to a floppy or usb or other storage device.

[John K.]

What about "PC Anywhere" or "Gotomypc.com?"

jk

[Steve Cashman]

Our experience with 5 seats of stand-alone Revit 6.0 is that you need to use the Portable License Utility to move the license from computer to computer via an export and import. I use it to work on my laptop at home at night and weekends. It works fine (I save the license file to a network folder), but you just have to remember to transfer it before you leave (which I haven't a few harried times.)

I started using NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing through VPN to be able to get to my desktop if I forgot to transfer the license file.

[UKITManager]

My experience with license borrowing has been poor due to the lack of the same capability in the Revit 6.1 FlexLM network version as you get with the stand alone version of 6.1.



These inconsistencies between Revit installs really gets ridiculous when the network license version cost £700 (£1100) more than the stand alone version. We need the network version to hot desk the software from trainee to trainee whilst we learn Revit so our six licenses are shared between 10 members of staff. I just can understand why Autodesk who release the FlexLM version at a great cost with less flexibility. The management of our firm would have liked to allow staff to train further from home.



Any news on this problem being corrected?