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General Licensing: Flexnet Codes and The License Parser

If you are using network licensing for your Autodesk product and you are performing a Status Inquiry, you can see what product you are using by refering the document below:

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS17288427

You can also check the Flexnet Codes that are currently on your server by using the license parser.

General Licensing: Product Keys

Product keys are necessary for the installation of an Autodesk product.  Here is a sampling of some of the Autodesk 2012 products:

• 657D1 = Maya 2012
• 128D1 = Max 2012 
• 727D1 = MotionBuilder 2012
• 498D1 = Mudbox 2012
• 797D1 = Inventor Professional  2012
• 240D1 = Revit Architecture 2012 
• 001D1 = AutoCAD 2012
• 057D1 = AutoCAD LT 2012
  

From this sampling, you can extrapolate the product keys for an Autodesk 2011 product.

• 657C1 = Maya 2011
• 128C1 = Max 2011
• 727C1 = MotionBuilder 2011
• 498C1 = Mudbox 2011
• 797C1 = Inventor Professional  2011
• 240C1 = Revit Architecture 2011
• 001C1 = AutoCAD 2011
• 057C1 = AutoCAD LT 2011
  

From this sampling, you can also extrapolate the product keys for a further release as well.

AutoCAD 2012 (full) on iPad? Yes, you can.

This is just a quick post to let you know that it is possible to run several Autodesk (full) programs on the iPad. It might not be practical to use all the available features on the device but it is certainly worth to try, as an alternative to Remote Desktop.
In order to test this you will need the following:

-       An iPad (yes)
-       A Citrix XenApp (6) server with Autodesk Application published
-       The Citrix Receiver for iPad

You can find the current Citrix Ready Autodesk Applications here http://www.autodesk.com/citrix
The Citrix Receiver for iPad is available free on the iTunes AppStore (search Citrix).

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Vault Server 2012 Installation Error

When installing Vault Server 2012 you might see this error appear in the ADMS System Check Report window.

Windows Package Manager

Operation failed with 0x8007000B

An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

 

This can occur if IIS 7.0 is missing some necessary features.

The list of features needed can be found in the Advanced Configuration Guide. After making sure that all features are installed, Just re-run the Vault Server installation.

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How To... Troubleshoot AUTODESKVAULT SQL 2008 Installation Errors

If you see a message in the "Autodesk Vault  (Server) Setup.log"

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Factory Design Suite and Product Design Suite on Same Machine

Following post talks about Interoperability of "Factory Design Suite (Ultimate) and Product Design Suite (Ultimate)

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/05/installation-interoperability.html

Autodesk Suites: Civil 3D 2012 & Infrastructure Suite 2012 Licensing

Understanding Civil 3D and Infrastructure Suite mixed license environment

You have a mixture of Civil 3D network licenses and Infrastructure Suite Premium or Ultimate network licenses and you are wondering which license AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 will pull first.

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS17150857

Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Network License Hotfix

This hotfix addresses a possible issue with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 pulling the incorrect license at launch.  This hotfix should be applied to all machines that have AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 installed, regardless of whether it was installed as part of a suite or as a point products (not part of a suite). 

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL17253046

Thanks to Alison Gangler and the Civil Team for this tip.

For details on Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites, please check out this blog:

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/06/autodesk-infrastructure-design-suites-2012-released.html

Autodesk Suites: USB Problem - The system cannot open the device or file specified.

We have been getting some reports on some USB keys not working.  You can check out this post for reference:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Unable-to-install-Product-Design-Suite-from-USB-stick/m-p/3068550#M34902

Basically, you need to order a new USB key from Autodesk or your Reseller.

Matchmover 2012: Licensing it with 3DS Max, 3DS Max Design & Softimage

You have installed Matchmover or Composite that came with your 3ds Max or Softimage installation and there is a licensing error, please check out the following post:

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/matchmover-or-composite-looks-for-maya-licenses/

For customers of 3dsMax Design and you installed it using the "Matchmover.msi" that you have downloaded from the Subsciption Center, you will need to add this environment variable value:

Variable:  ADSK_MATCHMOVER_LICENSE
Value:     3dsMaxDesign

Thanks to Stephen Blair for this tip.

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/matchmover-or-composite-looks-for-maya-licenses/

Mac: Using Standalone Maya | Composite - Fatal Error when connected to the network

Product support recieved a unique problem when running Composite on the Mac OS X.  The user had a Standalone version of Maya/Composite/Matchmover and only Maya was working as expected.

Matchmover had a licensing error and Composite would only start when it was not connected to the network.   The Matchmover problem was solved with this Maya Station post.

There was a Composite - Fatal Error when the the Mac was connected to the network.  The error message is below:

Composite was a bit more tricky to resolve.  We tried many options like editing the toxik.ini file and deleting the /var/tmp/toxik/mediacache & /var/tmp/toxik/logs folders.

To resolve this issue, you will need to delete the .hostname file in the following 2 locations:

/var/tmp/toxik/.hostname

/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/Autodesk Toxik 2012/mediacache/store/index/64/.hostname

I would like to thank Klas Jonsson and the reseller Creative Tools for this tip.