To Combine License Files

Create a license file that allows multiple products to run on the same network.

Although Autodesk Account allows you to generate a license file that consolidates network licenses for all your products, you may want to manually combine network licenses. You must have an existing license file and one or more new license files from Autodesk. After you create the combined license file, stop and restart each server that uses it so that the server reads the new file. For Windows servers, the LMTOOLS utility has a command for rereading a license file without stopping the server. However, it is more reliable to stop and restart the server.

1. Make a backup copy of your existing license file before you begin editing.
2. Examine the license files you want to combine to ensure that the top lines are identical, from SERVER to VENDOR. The following example shows the applicable lines for a single-server model:

   SERVER XXHP0528 0019bbd68993
   USE_SERVER 
   VENDOR adskflex port=2080

3. Open the existing license file in Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OS).
4. Open the newly issued license file and copy everything, including the PACKAGE section for subscription products, to the clipboard. In the text editor, paste the clipboard contents at the end of the existing license file.
5. Keep pasting information into the existing license file for all license files you want to combine.
6. Save the existing license file.