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Borrow License - FeatureWorks and Utilities

Question asked by Steve Krause on Apr 16, 2012
Latest reply on Oct 29, 2012 by Jose Sanchez Aguirre

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We have a site license. I am allowed to check out the license from home via our VPN.

With Solidworks (2011 sp2.0) closed I log into our VPN.

I go to the Solidworks License Manager and check out a seat of Solidworks.

I then log off of the VPN.

When I open Solidworks I get two messages:

"Could not initialize the FeatureWorks Application".

and

"Could not initialize the Solidworks Utilities".

After I hit okay SW opens and seems to work fine but I am probably not using the things that didn't get initialized because I am not doing much design from my home computer. just reviewing stuff.

What functionality am I missing and why is not initializing those items?

\Steve K

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Lenny Bucholz Apr 16, 2012 12:41 PM

did you barrow SW standard or Premium? if you did standard you won't get feature or utilities

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Steve Krause @ Lenny Bucholz on Apr 16, 2012 1:27 PM

I will check tonight to see what I borrowed.

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Steve Krause @ Lenny Bucholz on Apr 20, 2012 1:07 AM

I am seeing this:

On my Win 7 Pro laptop running SW 2011 sp2 and with PDM Enterprise when I check out Premium I do not get an error message.

On my Win 7 Home Premium running the same version of SW but without PDM I get the two messages even if I have checked out a license for Premium.

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Steve Ostrovsky @ Steve Krause on Apr 20, 2012 9:04 AM

It's because FeatureWorks and Utilities are part of SolidWorks Professional or Premium, not Standard. If all you check out is SolidWorks Standard, you will not be able to turn on any of the Professional/Premium add-ins.

I would suggest you turn off all your add-ins unless you're using them, then you won't get these messages when all you need to borrow is the Standard license.

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Jose Sanchez Aguirre @ Steve Krause on Oct 29, 2012 7:10 PM

First try running Solidworks as Administrator and try to load again if that didnt works then run from start menu regsvr32 (Path where is located the Solidworks installation- ex: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\sldutils\swloadersw.dll" - ) and enter after that try again

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Lenny Bucholz Apr 16, 2012 12:41 PM
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did you barrow SW standard or Premium? if you did standard you won't get feature or utilities
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- Steve Krause @ Lenny Bucholz on Apr 16, 2012 1:27 PM
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  I will check tonight to see what I borrowed.
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- Steve Krause @ Lenny Bucholz on Apr 20, 2012 1:07 AM
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  I am seeing this:
  
  On my Win 7 Pro laptop running SW 2011 sp2 and with PDM Enterprise when I check out Premium I do not get an error message.
  
  On my Win 7 Home Premium running the same version of SW but without PDM I get the two messages even if I have checked out a license for Premium.
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  - Steve Ostrovsky @ Steve Krause on Apr 20, 2012 9:04 AM
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    It's because FeatureWorks and Utilities are part of SolidWorks Professional or Premium, not Standard. If all you check out is SolidWorks Standard, you will not be able to turn on any of the Professional/Premium add-ins.
    
    I would suggest you turn off all your add-ins unless you're using them, then you won't get these messages when all you need to borrow is the Standard license.
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  - Jose Sanchez Aguirre @ Steve Krause on Oct 29, 2012 7:10 PM
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    First try running Solidworks as Administrator and try to load again if that didnt works then run from start menu regsvr32 (Path where is located the Solidworks installation- ex: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\sldutils\swloadersw.dll" - ) and enter after that try again
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