Jeremy Stroebel - All Things Tech in SMB

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 ins...

Yesterday at the Indianapolis CUGC meeting, Liquidware presented on their ProfileUnity solution.  Questions came up about Autodesk software in FlexApp and brought up an ongoing conversation about how to make this work both in FlexApp and with Portability/ProfileDisk. Here are the issues I have encountered and how to resolve them or work around them. Multiple Year Versions of the Same Product - FlexApp As an architectural design firm, we utilize Autodesk Revit as our primary design software.  The model files from Revit are essentially single file databases which undergo a schema update when upgrading to newer versions.  Autodesk has decided against spending time to develop a solution for saving back to older versions, so once a file is upgraded it can no longer be opened in an older version.  This means we tend to keep a couple different versions of Revit installed to minimize the need to upgrade files mid project and to work with consultants that may not be on t...