Solidworks Activation Question

We have 5 seats of Solidworks sharing these between 8 people using a licensing software called Keyserver. My question is regarding the new activation process. I look under the FAQ on Solidworks website but I didn't see anything that addressed this issue. How do we install Solidworks on all the pc's and activate them? I'm sure the answer is right in front of me and I'm just not seeing it.

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DT,

If you have a network licence, there is no activation process. The dongle does all that for you. If you have individual licenses and there are 8 users using 5 licenses, then technically you are in violation of your license, since each user gets one license and two installs of that license. Each license can be activated for two systems at a time. Each system where a license is used requires activation.

Matt Lorono

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fcsuper

Keyserver and other third party license metering software is no longer supported. (The license agreement actually changed with SW2005, but now it is enforced by activation.)

You can either use the single user licenses per the activation scheme (you can install a license on more than one computer, but it can only be activated on one system at a time) or upgrade to a SolidNetwork License (SNL) With one or two licenses, transferring an activation from one machine to another is workable. In your case, I'd recommended converting to SNL. There is a one-time charge of $500 per seat in the US to convert.

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jimsym

I just spoke to our VAR and confirmed this. The bummer is that Sassafras KeyServer is listed as a SolidWorks "Partner" and this was shown on the SolidWorks website under the SNL FAQ:

Question : Will SolidWorks force customers to adopt SolidNetWork Licensing (SNL)?

Answer : No. The SolidNetWork License Option is an additional option available with SolidWorks. Customers may continue to meter the use of SolidWorks per the existing SolidWorks License Agreement, or through the use of Solution Partner metering products.

Oh well...

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DT

The activation works like a network license in some ways, but the license server is a SolidWorks server across the internet. You can activate and transfer licenses. This takes a little more work on your part, but it does work.

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matt

We had Sassafras here as well. Our VAR contacted us back in September and we were given a week to convert as many of our licenses as we wanted to network licenses for free. If you weren't contacted, you might try talking to your VAR about some kind of deal now.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

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Jerry Steiger

Jerry,

Our VAR recommended Sassafras to us when we purchased Solidworks (2001). At that time our VAR didn't sell it or help us get it. When I spoke to our VAR they did say that the customers they knew had Sassafras was contacted a while back. I guess we slipped thru the cracks. We're converting our licenses over this morning. Any advice on installing the Solidworks licensing software or is it pretty straight forward? Our IT guy isn't thrilled with putting a dongle on the server.

Derek

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DT

It seems to me that if SW is going to continue to provide the kind of software licensing they started and grew with they need to figure out how to make SW work the same as it previously did for the honest people. What this would mean is that if it is installed on a machine on a LAN then any other machine on the LAN should be able to use it if it is not being used on the local machine it was installed on. This may sound like a full blown network license, but it isn't. At the most it is stripped down network licensing. At the simplest it is borrowing the activation information from the machine on which it was first installed.

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