If you have downloaded or are planning on downloading a Revit 2012 product, the first thing you will notice is the new installer. Revit products now closely match the installers of other Autodesk products. However, what might not be so obvious for long time Revit users, is some subtle changes to the way Licensing works for Revit 2012 products.
In previous releases of Revit products, you were able to do licensing switching on the fly, choosing between standard alone activation or Network or a thing called Demo mode. You could access a dialog from within Revit to do this (go to the application menu and choose licensing).
A change for licensing with 2012 is that it is no longer possible to switch to a different license type without reinstalling Revit 2012. The dialog above for 2011 and earlier versions, doesn't exist in 2012.
When you install Revit 2012, you can choose the license type to use. If you have to change license types after installation is complete, you installed the standalone trial for example but need network licensing later when you activate, you will need to uninstall and reinstall Revit to get network licensing.
Also in 2012, you may have seen the new Viewer mode in the start menu:
In 2012, the Revit Viewer 2012 is the Demo/Viewer option from previous releases, same functionality, just a different way to access it (you will still get into "Demo/viewer" mode if you are using network licensing but cannot pull a license).
Keep these changes in mind before choosing the license type so you can avoid a uninstall and reinstall of your Revit 2012 product.
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This is absolutely terrible. Why on earth would you take such a simple solution and swap it out for something idiotic? Just to make it more similar to some other terrible products in the ADSK lineup? C'mon guys...
Posted by: James Vandezande | April 11, 2011 at 02:33 PM
What a retarded move. Take something that worked well, and remove it. Why?
Revit had some of the easiest license management out of any Autodesk product... and now it doesn't. Sad.
Posted by: Chad | April 14, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Ditto to anyone who thought this solution was concocted in a vacuum. What happens if you have a license server that can't find a license? Or you're out of the office? Does the software just not open? I have no idea how long it took to write the code for this. Minutes or hours or what, but I could have suggested some better uses of that time......
Posted by: Eddy Krygiel | May 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM