Comments on: Preventative CAD Management http://www.caddmanager.com/CMB/2007/04/preventative-cad-management/ Practical, proven insight into CADD Management from Mark W. Kiker Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:07:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: R.K. McSwain http://www.caddmanager.com/CMB/2007/04/preventative-cad-management/comment-page-1/#comment-126 R.K. McSwain Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:33:00 +0000 http://www.caddmanager.com/CMB/2007/04/04/preventative-cad-management/#comment-126 Mark,<br/> One of the things that works well for us is using AutoCAD startup files (located on the network) for setting things that always seem to get "unset" at some point. <br/><br/>For example, at each ACAD startup, a VBS script is run that sets the ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the proper value. What does this do?<br/><br/>1) Since this was implemented, I have not had a single case where a machine could not find the license server.<br/><br/>2) This makes it easy when we change LM servers. We just change the VBS script and everyone is updated the next time they launch ACAD.<br/><br/>3) This script is also run once during our automated ACAD install. One less thing to worry about when deploying a new machine.<br/><br/>That's just one example. Mark,
One of the things that works well for us is using AutoCAD startup files (located on the network) for setting things that always seem to get “unset” at some point.

For example, at each ACAD startup, a VBS script is run that sets the ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the proper value. What does this do?

1) Since this was implemented, I have not had a single case where a machine could not find the license server.

2) This makes it easy when we change LM servers. We just change the VBS script and everyone is updated the next time they launch ACAD.

3) This script is also run once during our automated ACAD install. One less thing to worry about when deploying a new machine.

That’s just one example.

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