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ping license-server.company.com No reply. That meant the server name wasn’t reachable. She swapped the name for the server’s IP address (which she’d saved in a note after a previous crash) — ping worked.
And she never worked 14 hours straight again — but that’s another story.
There, she found a file named Drawing1_1_1_3456.sv$ . She renamed the extension to .dwg and opened it. She had lost only 3 minutes of work, not 20. licence checkout timed out autocad
Options → Files → Automatic Save File Location
She opened LMTOOLS (license manager utility) on her local machine, went to the “Borrow/Return” tab, and saw that her borrowed license had technically expired 10 minutes ago due to a mismatch between her laptop’s clock and the server’s clock (a known daylight saving issue). ping license-server
She checked her Wi-Fi. Still connected. But then she noticed: her VPN had auto-updated and disconnected from the office network. Her AutoCAD license was network-based (a common setup for firms using a license server). Without the VPN tunnel to the license server, AutoCAD couldn’t check out a license.
Maya’s heart raced. She hadn’t saved in 20 minutes. And she never worked 14 hours straight again
She reconnected the VPN, then opened a command prompt and typed:
