Autodesk 18507-051452-9325 - UPG ARCH DESKTOP 2007 User manual

Autodesk Design Academy 2007
Installation Guide
20007-010000-2720A June 2006

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 Prepare for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Overview of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installation Support and Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3 Installation Quickstarts Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Summary of Quickstarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 4 Network Licensing Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Install the Network License Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Install the Network License Activation Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Run the Network License Activation Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Manually Obtain a License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configure a License Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Combine Multiple License Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 5 Deployment Wizard Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installer File Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Run the Deployment Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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Run the Installed Deployment Wizard (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 6 Other Product Quickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Autodesk Revit Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Stand-Alone Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 7 Product Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installation by Deployments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Distribution by Imaging Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 8 Product Activation and Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Overview of Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Product Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Product Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 9 Education Curricula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Curricula Overview and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
System Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Network Licensing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Deployment Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Activation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Refresh Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 11 Contacts and Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Product Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
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Introduction
Autodesk Design Academy 2007
Autodesk®Design Academy offers a comprehensive
pre-engineering, pre-architecture, and cross-discipline
curriculum that helps students learn the fundamentals of the
design process while using popular Autodesk design tools. The
curriculum meets national standards and includes a course
syllabus, student exercises and projects, online learning
resources, and cross-curricular projects for physics, science,
and chemistry. The curriculum engages educators and students
in real-life projects, while developing skills in teamwork,
design, mathematics, science, and technology.
In addition to purchasing the Autodesk Design Academy
package, you may purchase Autodesk Media and Entertainment
Design Academy products, which are licensed separately from
the Autodesk Design Academy products and are sold either
through Autodesk Media and Entertainment Academic Value
Added Resellers or directly from Autodesk.
Design Academy Products
Autodesk Design Academy contains an extensive collection of
products available to educational sites. Each set of CDs in the
package represents an individual Autodesk product. The
collection includes the following products.
1
1

NotesProduct
AutoCAD 2007
Autodesk Design Review 2007
Autodesk VIZ 2007
Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007
Autodesk Building Systems 2007
Autodesk Revit Building 9
Contains Autodesk®Mechanical
2007, Mechanical Desktop 2007
and Vault 5
Autodesk Inventor Professional 11
Includes Autodesk Land Desktop
Companion 2007
Autodesk Civil 3D 2007
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Prepare for Installation
In this chapter
This section provides background information regarding the
installation of Autodesk Design Academy products, prerequisite ■Overview of Installation
■Installation Prerequisites
conditions that need to be met before installation begins, the
■Installation Support and Types
types of installations, and a general understanding of the
installation workflow.
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3

Overview of Installation
Most Autodesk products offer three installation options. These include
stand-alone, multi-seat stand-alone, and network licensed installations.
Autodesk Design Academy 2007 contains eight individual Autodesk products.
Each of those products has its own installer that offers at least one of the three
types of installation options.
The installation you’ll use depends on which products you want to install.
The recommended installation method for classroom or lab environments is
network licensed or multi-seat stand-alone. Both of these methods require
that you use the Deployment wizard. The Deployment wizard can be run
directly from the product CD or installed on the local drive.
NOTE While all products can be installed using the stand-alone method, the type
of license you’ve purchased should dictate the installation method you use. Some
products only allow you to use the stand-alone installation method. See Other
Product Quickstart (page 63) for a list of stand-alone products.
Site Configuration
Each Design Academy site uses its own configuration of product deployments
and installations. The installation process can be greatly simplified by only
installing the products that are required for the classroom or lab to operate.
For example, one site might use the Deployment wizard to install
network-licensed versions of Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007 and
Autodesk VIZ 2007 on 20 computers. Another Design Institute site might use
the Deployment wizard to install multi-seat stand-alone versions of AutoCAD
2007, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007, and Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 on
40 computers. Still another site might use the Deployment wizard to install
Autodesk Inventor Professional 11 as a multi-seat stand-alone product on 15
computers in a computer lab, and might also do manual installations of
Autodesk Design Review 2007 on the same 15 computers, one by one.
TIP To reduce installation time, only install what is necessary.
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Installation Prerequisites
Before installing any of the products in the Design Academy package, it is
recommended that you make sure the following conditions have been met:
■You understand the product licenses you’ve ordered. See Understand and
Verify Your Product Licensing (page 5).
■For each product you plan to install, you have reviewed the system
requirements. See Review the System Requirements (page 9).
■You have an understanding of administrative permissions. See Understand
Administrative Permissions (page 9).
■You have closed all other programs and disabled anti-virus software. See
Unsuccessful Installations (page 9).
■You have created a distribution plan for products once they’re installed
on your primary system. See Deployment Plan (page 10).
■If you are using imaging software, you have properly cleaned your primary
system in preparation for creating a master image. See Clean a Primary
System and Restore the Operating System (page 10).
■You know how you’re going to personalize the products during activation.
See Consistent Personalization Data (page 11).
■You have created shared folders for each product you plan to install using
the Deployment wizard. See Create Shared Folders for the Deployment
Wizard (page 11).
■If you are using the Deployment wizard, you have checked for the presence
of an older version of the Deployment wizard. See Check for Older Versions
of the Deployment Wizard (page 12).
Understand and VerifyYour Product Licensing
The type of licensing you purchased for your package of Autodesk Design
Academy determines the installation and deployment options that you have
available. There are three types of product licenses: network, multi-seat
stand-alone and stand-alone.
Network License
■Purchasing network licensed products is recommended for large
drafting/design facilities, classrooms, and lab environments. When you
Installation Prerequisites | 5

install network licensed products, you do not have to worry about
activation. Systems running products that use a network license do not
require activation because the Network License Manager manages all
requests for running a networked application.
This means, for example, that you can purchase a network license for 25
seats. The product is installed on 30 systems in the classroom. Once the
network license manager is installed, activated, configured and started on
the server, students can log on to any of the 30 systems up to a maximum
of 25 (the number of licenses). If someone exits the program on one of the
25 systems, the server frees a license for someone on one of the remaining
five systems.
The administrative image created by the Deployment wizard must be used
to install networked applications on a workstation.
If you are installing network licensed products, the following table shows
you which products use the network license manager and which chapters
you should reference in order to install, deploy and activate your facility.
Refer to These ChaptersProducts that use the Network
License Manager
Network Licensing Quickstart (page 21)
■AutoCAD 2007 Deployment Wizard Quickstart (page 45)
■Autodesk VIZ 2007 Product Distribution (page 73)
Product Activation (page 80)
■Autodesk Architectural Desktop
2007
■Autodesk Building Systems 2007
■Autodesk Inventor Professional 11
■AutoCAD Civil 3D 2007 (includes
Land Desktop Companion 2007)
Network Licensing Quickstart (page 21)
■Autodesk Revit Building 9 Autodesk Revit Deployment (page 65)
Product Distribution (page 73)
Product Activation (page 80)
Multi-Seat Stand-Alone License
■If your facility is not networked, but all the systems can connect to the
Internet, you can opt for multi-seat stand-alone licensed products. The
Deployment wizard is used to create deployment images. Contained within
the deployment images are shortcuts that are double-clicked to install the
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products. This type of licensing means that your products each use the
same single serial number for activation. But, unlike network licensed
products, you can only install the products on the maximum number of
systems that the license allows.
Furthermore, registration information is pre-configured during the creation
of the deployment image which ensures duplicate registration data for all
the workstations. As long as a product is installed using the deployment
image shortcut and all the systems have Internet access, they are
automatically activated the first time a product is launched.
For example, you purchased a multi-seat stand-alone license for 25 seats.
You have 30 systems in your classroom that can communicate over the
Internet but they are not networked. Even though you could install software
on all 30 systems, only the first 25 systems you start will have their licenses
activated. Because the licenses are tied to each specific system, the
remaining five systems will never be able to run the software unless you
purchase an additional five licenses.
The following table shows you multi-seat stand-alone licensed products
and which chapters you should reference in order to install, deploy and
activate your facility.
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Refer to These ChaptersProducts that use Multi-Seat
Stand-Alone Licenses
Deployment Wizard Quickstart (page 45)
■AutoCAD 2007 Product Distribution (page 73)
■Autodesk VIZ 2007 Product Activation (page 80)
■Autodesk Architectural Desktop
2007
■Autodesk Building Systems 2007
■Autodesk Inventor Professional 11
■AutoCAD Civil 3D 2007 (includes
Land Desktop Companion 2007)
■Autodesk Civil 3D - Civil Design
Companion 2007
Autodesk Revit Deployment (page 65)
■Autodesk Revit Building 9 Product Distribution (page 73)
Product Activation (page 80)
Stand-Alone License
■Stand-alone licensed product differ from multi-seat stand-alone licensed
products in that they must be installed directly from the product CD.
Registration of stand-alone products occurs the first time the application
is launched and registration information must be entered manually during
the registration process. In a classroom or lab environment there are two
ways to handle these products.
■Move from system to system, installing on each from the product CD.
■If the systems are networked, copy the product CD to a shared folder
on the primary server and then run the setup.exe file in the shared folder
on the server from each satellite system.
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The following table shows the products in your package that are only
available as stand-alone licensed products and which chapters you should
reference in order to install your facility.
Refer to These ChaptersProducts that use Stand-Alone
Licenses
Stand-Alone Products (page 70)
■Autodesk Design Review 2007 Product Distribution (page 73)
You request a change to the licensing you’ve purchased by contacting your
Academic Value Added Reseller. You can change from multi-seat stand-alone
licensing to network licensing and you can also increase the number of seats
for your existing license.
Review the System Requirements
Make sure that the systems on which you plan to install any of the Design
Academy products meet the system requirements for each product being
installed. If your systems do not meet the system requirements, problems can
occur.
Each product has its own set of system requirements. System requirements
can be accessed directly from the Media Browser of each product you plan to
install or from www.autodesk.com.
Understand Administrative Permissions
To install Design Academy products, you must have administrative privileges
on each workstation where the products are to be installed. If you are unsure
of your permission level, see your system administrator for more information.
Unsuccessful Installations
The installation process of many of the Design Academy products may stop
if some applications (such as Microsoft®Outlook®or virus-checking programs)
are running. Close all running applications and temporarily disable virus
checking utilities.
TIP If you encounter any MSI errors during installation, further information can
be found in the Autodesk Support Knowledgebase or the Microsoft Support
Knowledgebase.
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Deployment Plan
Before installing any products, you should have a good idea about how you’re
going to deploy products from your primary system to all the other systems
in your facility.
The Deployment wizard is a tool supplied by Autodesk that can be used with
a majority of the products. The Deployment wizard creates a deployment
image for each product and places that image in a shared folder you’ve created.
Another option for installing software on multiple systems is to use imaging
software, such as Norton Ghost. Imaging software uses a master image of the
primary system that you duplicate on all the workstations. If you are going
to perform network or multi-seat stand-alone installations, you must set up
a shared folder. The shared folder should be a network share and not part of
the local workstation. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that you have
a clean system before installing any products.
Deployment methods are covered in the Product Distribution chapter (page
73).
Clean a Primary System and Restore the Operating System
If you have previously run Autodesk products on the primary system, the
primary system should be properly cleaned before any master images are
created.
1Clean the hard drive, including the boot sector.
For example, if you use the Norton GDISK utility, use the following
command; gdisk 1 /diskwipe.
Where 1is the hard disk that is being wiped.
NOTE If you use imaging software other than Norton Ghost, make sure that
it cleans the boot sector; otherwise, you will not be able to activate Autodesk
products.
2Use your restore CD or create a new partition and use the product CD to
install the operating system.
NOTE A clean system is one that has not had previous Autodesk software
installed or run.
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Consistent Personalization Data
It is very important that the personalization data (for example, your facility
name and contact information) you supply when registering and activating
your products is consistent across all Autodesk products that you install. When
you register and activate products, you are required to enter information on
the electronic registration (EREG) site. If you enter this data incorrectly or
inconsistently, you can run into activation problems.
For example, Mr. J. Smith works at a school and has received his software. He
decides to install AutoCAD on his personal system and activates the product
using his personal information. He then gives the same AutoCAD package to
a system administrator to install on the school’s network. The system
administrator attempts to register and activate the product using the school’s
personalization data. Since the software license has already been registered
and activated by Mr. Smith, the software on the school’s network cannot be
registered and activated unless Mr. Smith’s exact personalization data is re-used.
You can avoid this situation by always using the original personalization data.
If you do not know your personalization data, you should contact your
Academic Value Added Reseller or the Autodesk Business Center. Refer to
Contact Information (page 94).
Create Shared Folders for the Deployment Wizard
You use the Deployment wizard for both network license and multi-seat
stand-alone methods of installation. They both require shared folders. A shared
folder (network share) is a folder that you make available to users' computers
over a network. The shared folder is created before you run the Deployment
wizard and is where product deployments are stored.
It is recommended that you name the network share folder Autodesk. You can
then add subfolders inside the shared Autodesk folder that clearly convey the
names of products you plan to deploy. For example:
Any subfolders that are placed inside a shared folder are automatically shared.
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TIP You must have Full Control permissions set for your shared folder when you
are creating your deployment images. Read permissions are necessary to access
the network share and administrative permissions on the workstation where the
program is deployed.
To create a shared folder
1On a network server, create a folder named Autodesk.
2Right-click the Autodesk folder. Click Sharing and Security (or Sharing).
3In the Properties dialog box, Sharing tab, select Share This Folder.
4In the Permissions dialog box, click the Permissions button. Make sure
Full Control is active. Click OK.
This is important when creating your deployment images.
5Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.
6For each product you plan to install, create a subfolder in the Autodesk
folder. Name each folder with the pertinent product name.
Check for Older Versions of the Deployment Wizard
While the Deployment wizard can be used to create the deployments of
multiple products, older versions of the wizard cannot be used with current
releases of Autodesk products. If you are planning to use the Deployment
wizard for network licensed or multi-seat stand-alone installations, first check
to see if the Deployment wizard is already installed on your system.
If you find that the Deployment wizard is already installed on your system,
and you haven’t installed it recently, it is recommended that you run the
Deployment wizard directly from the Media Browser.
Otherwise, you should uninstall the current Deployment wizard and then
install the Deployment wizard found on your 2007-based product CD.
For more information regarding the Deployment wizard, refer to the
Deployment Wizard Quickstart chapter (page 45).
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Installation Support and Types
Before installing any products, you should know which products support the
Deployment wizard and Network License Manager, and the types of installation
options you can choose from.
Installation Support by Product
When installing a combination of Autodesk products on the same computer,
it’s beneficial to know which products support the Deployment wizard and
which products support the Network License Manager. The following table
lists the products categorized by discipline and if they provide Deployment
wizard and/or Network License Manager
Supports the Net-
work License
Manager
Supports the
Deployment
Wizard
Products
General Design & Drafting Discipline
YesYesAutoCAD 2007
NoNoAutodesk Design Review 2007
Visualization
YesYesAutodesk VIZ 2007
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Supports the
Network License
Manager
Supports the
Deployment
Wizard
Products
Building Design Discipline
YesNoAutodesk Revit Building 9
YesYesAutodesk Architectural Desktop 2007
YesYesAutodesk Building Systems 2007
Manufacturing Design Discipline
YesYesAutodesk Inventor Professional 11
Infrastructure Design Discipline
YesYesAutodesk Civil 3D 2007 (includes Land
Desktop Companion 2007)
Installation Types
The type of licensing you’ve purchased often dictates what type of installation
method you’ll use. For products that support the Deployment wizard, you
will be prompted to specify one of the following installation types.
Network Licensed Installation
If you have a network license you’ll use this type of installation. You install
the program to workstations with the files and registry entries that allow the
program to communicate with the Network License Manager. You also define
the location of the Network License Manager so that the licenses can be
accessed.
The main advantage is that you can install products on more systems than
the number of licenses you have purchased. For example, purchasing 25
licenses but installing on 40 workstations. At any one time, products will run
on the maximum number of systems for which you have licenses. This means
you get a true floating license.
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