Licensing and Collaboration for AEC Professionals

Earlier updates, such as the 2017 updates can be located under the Product Updates if you allow enough time for all available updates to load in the filter tool.

To be clear, Autodesk only supports the current software version and 3 previous versions (i.e. 2021-2018).

Resolution if you receive PDQ error code 259 when trying to deploy your Autodesk products.

Using PDQ to uninstall Autodesk products using a batch file.

How to uninstall products from a deployment using the deployment built-in “Uninstall.txt” file.

How to deploy AutoCAD 2021 using PDQ Deploy

A deployment provides an efficient way to install one or more Autodesk products with a standard configuration on multiple computers.

Issue: No one can get a license from the network license server. First check to see if the network license file is expired using the LMTools utility.

When you keep getting the License Finder Dialog instead of obtaining a network license here's what you'll need to do.

Steps to ensure the next time you download a new product it will already be set to the correct preference.

Issue: 3D Studio 2021 License information did not propagate through install during single product deployment Causes: This is a known issue. Autodesk is currently working on it.

You need to use an MSI file for a Deployment of IMAGINiT Utilities. When you receive you IMAGINiT Utilities, you only have an exe file.

You receive an error trying to access a network version of the IMAGINiT Technologies Utilities. This is a basic error meaning the program is unable to communicate with the license manager.

Learn to move a deployment to a different server or folder

Switch your currently installed Autodesk Software over from a Multi-User (a.k.a. Network) installation to a Single-User (a.k.a. Named User) license installation.

The most common reason for this is that your firewall is blocking communication with the IMAGINiT servers.