• Make sure that the operating system and AutoCAD are properly installed. We recommend a full AutoCAD installation.

• Currently, ATHENA 2018 is supplied with a Sentinel (or HASP) HL Pro or a Sentinel (or HASP) HL Net hardware protection. Older Sentinel/SafeNet (Rainbow) SuperPro or SuperProNet hardware protection plugs are not supported and must be replaced.

• If you want to use ATHENA with a vertical Autodesk product (e.g. AutoCAD Architecture), we recommend that an AutoCAD profile is set up when installing it.

• To ensure that the ATHENA installation routine can set up an AutoCAD profile, AutoCAD must have been started once before the installation is started.

• Make sure that the appropriate user rights are available on the workstation. Since drivers for the hardware protection may have to be installed, we recommend local administrator rights.