Cameron MacKenzie

Switch License from Multi- to Single-user

To switch your Multi-user/Network License on your machine to a Single-user/Standalone License please follow the steps below Once in your software, you should see your user name in the top right, when you click on this you will get the following drop down, select Manage License… You will then get the License Manager window, select …

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Autodesk Software: Teams in User Management

Autodesk have added a handy new feature in their User Management page where your licenses are split into teams based on the subscriptions you have taken out. What this means is you can assign secondary administrators per a team who will have access to select licenses and not all of them. This works really well …

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Sharing Cloud Credits

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Cloud credits are great for using all the features that Autodesk products have to offer, and there are two types of cloud credits available: Starter Credits which are available to every named user, who get 100 cloud credits for their account. This means that everyone who has an Autodesk account has access to 100 free …

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What can Cloud Credits Do across Autodesk Software?

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While Cloud Credits can be used across a range of functions in Autodesk software, the most common uses are Rendering, Simulation, Tool paths, and Generative Design. Rendering enables users the chance to create solar studies of your model in various environments, as well as panoramas and images that are photorealistic. These would usually take longer …

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Slow Autodesk Software

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I often get calls from clients who are experiencing a really slow or frozen Autodesk product. While it is common for the software to slow down as the project you are working on gets more detailed, if you do notice a very substantial change in the performance of your software over a short space of …

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Unable to Communicate with the Project Database

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Last week I came onto an issue on AutoCAD Electrical when opening the program we encountered an error “Unable to communicate with the project database”. This error usually refers to AutoCAD being unable to access the database of the project you are using and can be solved by deleting the .mdb file in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical …

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Inventor CAM Toolpath Needs Regeneration

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“Inventor CAM needs me to generate tool path a second time in order to work”, “Toolpath needs Regeneration”, “Toolpath only works after second generation”. These are some of the things I looked up when we encountered an issue within Inventor CAM where as you guessed it, the tool path would not generate on the first …

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