Buying New PC. Do I Have to Buy a New Version of Autocad?

[pjb84]

I have ADT 2007 installed on my current PC. However, I just purchased a new computer.
Is there anyway to transfer my current ADT 2007 to my new computer, or do I have to buy a another version of ADT?

Thanks Guys

[Alan Cullen]

Investigate the protable license utility. Set it up on your new computer, making sure you get the license name and identification code absolutely correct for your new computer.

You will need to set your acad up on your new computer first in order to get that data, then write that data into the portable license utility on the old computer, so the license can be transfered to the new computer.

Read up on this procedure in Help. BUT, and a big BUT. Be very careful, if you get it wrong, you are buggared.

[the ber]

i believe that you can install your software on a second computer using your original license. autodesk allows this for working from the office and from home, for example. i have done this here in germany with no problem. i think it's different from country to country.
i have also found autodesk here to be helpful with registration difficulties. but maybe the portable license utility is all you need, as alan suggests.

by the way, what part of maine? i'm originally from maine too.

[Raggi_Thor]

I hnk you can just install and register online.
If the registration fails you have to use the portable license or ask your dealer and then maybe fill in a "Declaration of software removal" (saying that you uninstall on the old computer).

[pjb84]

i believe that you can install your software on a second computer using your original license. autodesk allows this for working from the office and from home, for example. i have done this here in germany with no problem. i think it's different from country to country.
i have also found autodesk here to be helpful with registration difficulties. but maybe the portable license utility is all you need, as alan suggests.

by the way, what part of maine? i'm originally from maine too.

Thanks. I will look into all of these.
I am located in the southern part of Maine. Just outside of Gorham.
What part are you from?

[the ber]

i'm from biddeford. i've been in germany now for 17 years though, just about as far as possible away from an ocean.

[Noahma]

you can install it on the new machine, and call the Autocad registration phone number, let the operator know what you are doing. and they should let you go through the registration. They allow up to two installs, one on a workstation, another on a remote computer, as long as you do not use them at the same time. I actually read all the way through the EULA (end user license agreement) and asked the operator when we got them registered after an upgrade.

[Alan Cullen]

I keep forgetting, licensing procedures for USA is different to the rest of the world.