Ever had this error?

“Revit Current License Status.
License unavailable. A license is required to run Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 on this computer.”

License unavailable. A license is required to run Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 on this computer.”

A bit of history as to how I came to receive this message. I opened up Revit for the first time, and it hung on the splash screen. I had to do a hard reset to breathe life back into my trusty machine.

Well, there isn’t a lot of documentation regarding this error on the big ol’ internet. I had a quick look and gave up, thought I’d hassle our reseller instead. I’m glad I did. Within approx 30 seconds I got a reply to my email. Seems the local license file was corrupt. It was suggested closing all my Autodesk applications and moving/deleting ‘c:\ProgramData\FlexNET\’ would resolve the problem. It did, happy days!

It has since come to light that the cause of it hanging was related to the network connection. My boss threw his coffee all over Mr. Network Hub who sits next to my desk the other day, it transpires Mr. Network Hub didn’t much appreciate it. Anyway, that was causing spasmodic network connection which resulted in a crash mid-opening of Revit, hence the corrupt local license file.

I run Revit Structure 2012 on Windows 7 64-Bit. I don’t know if the location of the ‘FlexNET’ folder would be different for the numerous versions of windows that are around (XP, Vista, 32/64-bit), so if it isn’t where I suggested above, you may need to do some searching.

Are you bored now? Well go and do some work!

Happy Reviting!