We have 2 Premium and 1 Professional licence for our design department and have been asked if there is anything I can do to allow one of those premium licences to be used in office, but also on a home users PC. This wouldn't be used concurrently. Just to give the owner of the licence more time to spend learning Solidworks on evenings and weekends for example. Currently I have to deactivate and reactive if I want to move licences.
Not sure if anyone else has asked this question before.
Steven McCallion wrote:
https://hawkridgesys.com/blog/activating-online-license-solidworks-2018
Not sure what the deal is when a worker leaves the company, I presume you just contact your VAR and ask them to remove the coupling of that mysolidworks account to the license.
Personally I just deactivate/reactivate a standalone license.
I believe one user can be set up as the online licensing admin for all of a company's licenses. That admin can change what user is assigned to what license at any time.
Use network licensing amd VPN.
Although this works well, it introduces some rather ridiculous costs that are a bit much when this is all just so some guy can practice at home a bit.
Are they network license?
Or standalone machine license?
Machine license can be convert to online license and user can login from anywhere with internet.
As far as I understand it, they are just standalone licences. I recently rolled out new pc's to the department and had to deactivate and activate the new pc's
Is there a cost involved in converting on to this "online license"? sounds like that would solve the problem.
Nope, follow the steps in the link I posted previously.
"Free"
Don't know if you need to be on subscription.
You can convert between the two when needed.
We switched to online. So we can use SW at different locations on desktop or laptop.
Are licences are on subscription, going to try and convert to online licencing as that looks like its the exact thing I need. Thanks so much!
https://hawkridgesys.com/blog/activating-online-license-solidworks-2018
Not sure what the deal is when a worker leaves the company, I presume you just contact your VAR and ask them to remove the coupling of that mysolidworks account to the license.
Personally I just deactivate/reactivate a standalone license.