Can anyone verify a rumor I heard?
Can anyone verify a rumor I heard?
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I know this will sound like a stupid question, but here goes. If my company has installed solidworks on my computer at work can I install that software on my personal computer at home? Someone told me that solidworks allows this. It does not sound true. Can anyone elaborate?
Rustdogbrown
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oharag
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Rustdogbrown
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Regards
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mncad
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Article 1.A (near bottom of paragraph)
" If the Software is permanently installed on the hard disk or other storage device of a computer (other than a network server) and one person uses that computer more than 80% of the time it is in use, then that person may also use the Software on a portable or home computer while the original copy is not in use [not applicable to COSMOS products]. You will keep accurate and up-to-date records of the numbers and locations of all copies of the Software, will supervise and control the use of the Software in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and will provide copies of such records to SolidWorks upon reasonable request."
This is what MY license agreement says, I'm not sure if it is the same for everybody. It also answers the questions about installing the same license on multiple computers.
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"If you have paid the license fee for a single user license, this Agreement permits you to use one copy of the Software on any single computer, provided that the Software is in use on only one computer at any time. If you have paid the license fees for multiple licenses of the Software, then at any time you may have as many copies of the Software in use as you have licenses. The Software is "in use" on a computer when it is loaded into the temporary memory (i.e. RAM). If the potential number of users of the Software exceeds the number of licenses you have purchased, then you must have a reasonable mechanism or process in place to assure that the number of computers on which the Software is running concurrently does not exceed the number of licenses purchased. "
I's pretty clear, as long as only one instance of that license is open at any given time, it can be on several computers.
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If you have those 5 seats installed at 5 user stations. then those user can take those CD's home and put it on their home stations. The theory is "you can't be in the using both seats at the same time". So you can have that seat at home to use at night. Been like this since 95.
Now whether or not you can have those 5 seats floating around the office is a different story. It would be hard to control whether or not one of those 5 seats was not being used in another dept. while everyone in Engineering is using their seats. This could and probably would lead to misuse of the software per the license agreement.
But to answer your question directly - Yes you can install a seat of SW at work and a Seat of SW at home - If you call and talk to your VAR I'm sure they would exapnd on this and would pass it up the ladder. After all they should want the sell.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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I don't know if SW does site liscening...before SW we used Inventor and didn't have to worry about a liscence server. Wish we had stuck with Inventor...
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This licensing, of course, doesn't work on software that is "attached" in a per-computer basis instead of a per-user basis. An example would be anti-virus software, where the computer is the main thing, and not the user.
Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
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ctopher - Not sure how you got that set up??
pdybeck - That's true, but for SW04 you couldn't borrow license's like you can with SW05 - On top of that it's different with Standalone seats.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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