So you've either switched to Autodesk Collections (Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, or Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection) from a Suite or bought new ones and need to know how license borrowing works with the collections. License borrowing is different with the collections than with the Suites. When you borrowed a Suite license, you were able to run all the products under that Suite with that borrowed license. When using collections, the process to borrow is the same, but how it handles it on the license server is very different.
If a User has Autodesk AutoCAD and Autodesk Revit open, and they borrow a license for both (since they will be traveling, on site, etc.), they will actually consume two (2) licenses of the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. There is no way of borrowing an entire collection license at this time, only individual products under each collection. So, if you borrow a license while AutoCAD is open, it will borrow a collection license of AutoCAD out of the collection, not the entire collection. That means if you need to borrow licenses for more than one product, you need to borrow a collection license for each product you intend to use offline. Once these are borrowed, no one else will be able to use that Collection license, and you may run out of licenses for other users if you have to borrow more than one product.
See the pdf in the link below for more information:
Ryan,
This article is a very useful interpertation of the Autodesk article. They do not state "directly" this fact. Great article.
Posted by: John Hackney | 09/09/2017 at 10:16 AM