AUTODESK® INVENTOR™ 2008

NETWORK INSTALLATION GUIDE ADDENDUM

Autodesk Inventor 2008 Network Deployment

This document describes the differences between steps in the AutoCAD® Network Installation Wizard
and those in the Autodesk Inventor Network Installation Wizard. A description of the AutoCAD Network
Installation Wizard is located in the AutoCAD Network Administrator's Guide (acad_nag.pdf), in the
\docs folder of your product media. In the PDF file, see Chapter 3 > Deploy AutoCAD > Use the
Network Installation Wizard.
The following options are available only in the Autodesk Inventor Network Deployment wizard
accessed from the appropriate Options link:
Select Preferences page:

• Enable or disable part modification from within drawings.

• Select either inches or millimeters as the default measurement of length.
• Choose the default drawing standard.
• Specify that Internet Explorer be required for installations.
• Specify the desktop shortcut(s) to be installed.

NOTE: The desktop shortcut list is adjusted according to the Autodesk Inventor product flavor being
installed. Multiple shortcuts are offered when the installation is a network license type. This allows you
to define and select the Autodesk Inventor product flavor.

Content Center Libraries:

All libraries are selected by default. You can deselect any of the check boxes to prevent a default
library from being installed.

On the Client Installation Location page:

In AutoCAD, you can override the default Client Installation Path if client installations are run in non-
silent mode.

In Autodesk Inventor, you can override the default location of the client installation if client installations
are run in non-silent mode. You can change the location of the folder to install into, but you cannot
change the name of the folder.
If you are using script to deploy Inventor for a silent installation, it is required to run MSDE
(InventorMSDESetup.exe), MSI3.0, MDAC2.7 and WSE2.0 before the Autodesk Inventor installation.
Please read the Use Scripts to Deploy AutoCAD section in the Quick Start to Network Administration.
NOTE: The Network license server is blocked by firewalls. The port in the license file (2080),
lmgrd.exe booth must be allowed to go through the firewall in order to proceed with installation.

If an Autodesk product is installed on a system, and then you attempt to install and setup a network
license server on that same system, the default service is Borrow, not FLEXlm™. However, as Borrow
is not a valid service name, you must add another service, exit and restart lmgrd.exe and proceed as
per the instructions.

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