Learn what is new in the 2015 release.
A major effort was applied to this guide for the 2015 version to make Autodesk licensing information more accessible and usable. The intent is to help customers understand licensing concepts, work successfully through licensing processes, and prevent errors along the way. Every topic in this guide was moved into a new format that provides numerous links to related information in other topics and on the Internet. This new structure should be more usable for customers using Search as their main method of access to licensing information. The 2015 guide includes many more direct links to Services & Support topics that provide additional, detailed information. Specific topics that contain significant new information are listed below.
New details are included about the trusted storage file and how it affects license validation.
This new topic helps customers understand the circumstances in which they should take special action to avoid license errors.
More functional details are included about Network License Manager (NLM) and the license file.
This new topic provides commands for querying the status of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux license servers.
Additional information is provided about the cascading sequence, including links to Services & Support pages for more detail.
This new topic explains how network licenses are allocated under different situations when running multiple products and versions. The topic includes links to Services & Support articles.
This new topic replaces a former topic, "Interpreting Your License File", and includes new information on how to use the License File Parser to read the license file.
This new topic explains how to get a license file from Autodesk, including the detailed information required.
These new topics explain the circumstances in which license files can be combined, and how to do it.
More functional details were added to better explain this process.
This new topic covers the main categories of license errors and provides links to Services & Support pages that provide reference lists of error messages or codes and their solutions.