Layering Autodesk Applications - Licensing Errors
This post is pretty short and simple, but I thought it merited a separate post for this issue. Problem: When layering multiple Autodesk Products in separate layers, you will likely run into errors pertaining to licensing (you will theoretically get a pop-up indicating an issue for all but 1 program). This is due to Autodesk keeping 1 file that holds the licensed product information for all Autodesk programs installed on a machine. If this file is incomplete, you will run into this error. The way most layering works is the last layer to lay down will win in any conflicted files. (Note: Liquidware's ProfileUnity/FlexApp does do some microisolation in newer releases. Previously this was an issue there as well, but I have not tested recently to see if this problem is solved with their microisolation technology) The file affected is typically "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\AdLM\ProductInformation.pit". The file can have more products in it than you have installed, but can