As Kirk pointed out earlier in the thread, the Deployment Wizard is a good option for folks who need to install Inventor/PDSU on multiple machines.There have been quite a few topics mentioned in this thread, so I’ll take a minute and summarize some existing Inventor functionality which I think are useful to these scenarios. We are continuing to look at other ways of improving update/upgrade delivery for Inventor and Product Design Suite. We've continued to see steady adoption of Citrix and other virtualization technologies, and not much demand for a server-heavy Inventor install. At that time we decided instead to pursue more robust Inventor support for industry-standard solutions such as Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. This remaining heavy footprint on the client workstations negated much of the benefit of a server-based install. When we tried this with Inventor we were able to move many of the files to the server, however a sizeable amount of data (mostly third-party prerequisites and adjacent Autodesk applications) still needed to be installed and kept up to date on the client workstation. I'm not aware of a server-heavy install for Creo 2 or 3, or at least it doesn't appear to be documented in their install guide (links anyone?). The last time I checked Catia also supported a similar install model, although there is definitely still a client-side install required. AutoCAD used to have a server-heavy install like this, but it was abandoned sometime around the AutoCAD 2002 release. Some time ago we did explore whether Inventor files could be stored on a network share and executed remotely from the local workstations.
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