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.

Thanks

 

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
http://sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solidworks

 

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.

 

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...

 

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.

 

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"

 

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

 

putting a dongle on the

WTF???

It was bad enough having the dongles on the local machines.

Even Microsoft doesn't go that far! what a joke!

The IT guys should get together and tell desault to f off and get a life!

I'm having another fucked up day with Solidworks!!!!!!!

GET YOUR FUCKING SOFTWARE WORKING PROPERLY , YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLES !!!



Rant over , I'm going home!

 

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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