As a company that uses both network and standalone license of Autocad, changing the Autocad from network to standalone mode is just a common thing.  But for some, this is just another tedious task specially if they will go to the direct route which is to uninstall and install the Autocad just to make it standalone / network license version.

If you want to avoid that long route, read on and I’m going to show you a simple way how to change Autocad network to standalone  or Autocad standalone to network. This little trick works for Autocad and other Autodesk product verticals like Autocad MEP, Autocad P&ID, Autocad Plant 3D, Autocad Structure, Autocad Map etc.

Impotant: We are going to modify the registry of your machine so better backup your registry data. If something went wrong you can quickly load your old registry data and re-start the process.

Start:

Run the registry editor (regedit) and locate this key in the registry:

For 2011 version: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R18.1\ACAD-9001:409\AdLM

For 2012 version: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R18.2\ACAD-A001:409\AdLM

Now once you locate the key registry simply change the type value, it doest matter whether it is hexadecimal or decimal. 

Use 1 for Network

Use 2 for Standalone

Use 3 for Multiseat Standalone

Close the registry window and start your Autocad.

Hope this help. Enjoy!