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Premium License Accessibility

Premium License Accessibility

Premium License Accessibility

(OP)
We have two users with SW premium installed.  We have one SW premium license.  Is it a "first come first serve" for this license?  It would make sense to me that unless you have activated an add-in that calls for a premium license it should be accessible to both users because now if I want to use routing I have to start SW before the other user.???  

Can this be changed?

RE: Premium License Accessibility

Yes get a second licence!

It is illegal to run a single licence concurrently on separate machines.

cheers

RE: Premium License Accessibility

I'm assuming this is a networked license and you are trying to "check out" the license first?  Do you have a "non-premium" license in addition to the Premium and you are trying to select which one you check out so that if you don't need the Premium license you can leave it for the other user?

If you only have one license, then CBL's emphatic "Yes" is true.  If you have two licensing, and you just want to be certain of which one you are checking out...different story.

Garland E. Borowski, PE
Borowski Engineering & Analytical Services, Inc.
Lower Alabama SolidWorks Users Group
Magnitude The Finite Element Analysis Magazine for the Engineering Community

RE: Premium License Accessibility

(OP)
Yes, GBor that is the case.  Thanks for explaining it better than I could.  We have one premium and one office license.  We would like to activate and deactivate add-ins as needed.

RE: Premium License Accessibility

I would think as long as the first user user to take a license doesn't have Routing, CW, CM, or ScanTo3D check on as add-ins it shouldn't matter.  Those are the only add-ins that determine Pro. vs. Prem.  Otherwise, if both users had those add-ins unchecked they should be available to either of them at any time.  I could be wrong in my thought process but that's how it works for us (50 total licenses, 7 of which are Pro. and 3 more of which are Prem.).  Test it to confirm.

Kevin Carpenter
CAD Systems Administrator
Invacare Corp.

RE: Premium License Accessibility

From what I've been told by my VAR it's supposed to work the way Kevin describes however, my experience has been that premium gets checked out first no matter what add-ins are selected.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: Premium License Accessibility

If you install Premium on a machine, on login, it looks for a Premium license with Professional as the fallover.
So, if you have three licenses, two of them Premium, one Professional, and you installed Premium on all three workstations, the first two users who log in will get the Premium, the third will get Professional.

RE: Premium License Accessibility

(OP)
Problem solved, this is what happened.  We have two licenses, one pro and one premium.  Both users using a license.  When one user would deactivate routing it would still hold on to the premium license because it needed at least a pro license in order to run toolbox.  So unless that user turned off toolbox as well to get him into the standard office license would it then make the premium available.

RE: Premium License Accessibility

If you don't have Pro then it takes a Premium instead, because you turned on the add-in that comes with Premium. You need to get a 2nd license, if nothing else get Professional.

Regards

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
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