#Autocad

Recently migrated Shan from Windows to an Apple/macOS and every reboot she kept getting "Unable to connect with Autodesk Desktop Licensing Service" when launching AutoCAD on her Mac.

The official bullshit is to reinstall the Licensing Service (why is there even such a thing). But alas, that didn't fix it.

Also updating AutoCad to 2025 (we're barely even in 2024) didn't fix it (but made it work until the next reboot).

I am not sure what is the problem -- I've upgraded Shan's 27" 2k monitor to a 32" 4k monitor and AutoCAD LT recently updated from 2021 to 2022. Shan's been using a 2017 i5 NUC (NUC7i5BNB) with 32Gb RAM using the onboard GPU. Something that should be plenty for a bit of Windows, Chrome, Photoshop and AutoCAD LT.

For the past few weeks, several times a day her screen would black out for half a second or so and then everything should go back to normal. Sometimes it would happen several times in a row, sometimes it wouldn't for hours on end.