Thursday, April 26, 2012

Change AutoCAD 2013 from Network license to Standalone

AutoCAD 2013 can easily be changed between Network, Standalone and Multiseat Standalone licensing with a small registry hack that has changed a little compared to earlier versions. (How to change AutoCAD 2012 from network license to standalone)

Start the Registry Editor and the registry location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R19.0 and then depending on AutoCAD vertical look in ACAD-B001 for AutoCAD 2013 or for example ACAD-B004 for AutoCAD Architecture 2013. Finally in AdLM there is Type that can be changed to any of the values 1, 2 or 3 as seen below.

1 – Network

2 – Standalone

3 – Multiseat Standalone

AutoCAD registry details explained

3 comments:

  1. I remember this hack working on earlier versions but it does not work on the 2013

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  2. In what direction did you test and is it vanilla AutoCAD or any vertical?

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  3. I have not tested Standalone->Network or MSSA->Network, but Network->anything else does not not.

    Not because the registry edit isn't valid, but because the components needed to authorize a standalone license are not present after you do a network license install.

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