Home Usage License
Home Usage License
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Hey guys and gals,
Looking for some input. I act sort of as a CAD administrator here at my company and am wondering what some of your company’s polices is on Home Usage Licenses. Do you hand them out or not? Any input is very much welcomed, don’t be shy. We currently do not have a policy and I am being looked to to form one and am open to hearing pros and cons to either policy
Thanks
Looking for some input. I act sort of as a CAD administrator here at my company and am wondering what some of your company’s polices is on Home Usage Licenses. Do you hand them out or not? Any input is very much welcomed, don’t be shy. We currently do not have a policy and I am being looked to to form one and am open to hearing pros and cons to either policy
Thanks






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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP![[pc2] pc2](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/pc2.gif)
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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Now if you're asking who should get the license that's another story. If there isn't anyone that clearly needs it more than anyone else, then I would suggest accepting bribes and personal favors. Let the bidding begin!
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Ha... I like it. Nothing like a good doughnut lever!
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As admin of the system you should be able to notify SW that a home license user is no longer employed with you, and they should be able to de-activate the home license.
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As rporter said, what happens when someone leaves the company, how do you get it back?
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2008 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
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That's my take on it anyway.
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Do you mean the home license portion from a valid license on a computer which is used by someone else 80% of the time? If you are the person using the 80%, the work/home license could be switched ... as long as someone else isn't using that license at the same time.
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If you have SNL at work you will need a Home User License (HUL) issued via your VAR. If you already have a HUL for SW07, I doubt you would need to get another for SW08 ... but I could be wrong on that one.
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At the moment our SW 2007 HUL serial number will not activate SW 2008 for any more than the thirty grace period.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
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In the meantime maybe somebody else can confirm my outlandish story...
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Anyone can go to the About page in SW and write down the serial number and register a HUL as long as one is available. I know in 2006 I was changing machines and had SW on three different machines at home with no problems. They have changed it since then so SW can keep better track and control the number of licenses per serial number.
If you don't want someone to get a seat at home then don't give them the disks.
As far as policy goes I use if someone wants a seat at home let them have it. The only reason I can see, and have seen, to stop people from setting up computers at home is because the company is using a home license to create an additonal seat at work. I think many people still remember the early days of Autocad with one set of disks running on 50 different machines.
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I just installed SolidWorks 2008 SP 0.0 on my home PC last night using the SolidWorks 2007 serial number. The software told me it never expires.
bigbuck,
We let those who use SolidWorks to install it at home. Most of our users do not install at home. If a person has the DVD and serial number it is hard to stop them from installing SolidWorks at home if they wanted too.
JamesBarlow,
You’re right on the mark with HUL. A star for you.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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I can keep/use my current SW2007 HUL install of SolidWorks on my home computer forever. If I want to install SW2008 at home I need a new HUL. My SW2007 HUL does not work for SW2008. I have already tried to see if it works, it doesn't.
I am in the process of getting a new HUL for our SW2008 seats.
I am not sure what would happen today if I uninstalled SW2007 at home and tried to re-install it today with our SW2007 HUL. It may not to work. I need my current SW2007 install so I can't experiment to see if this is the case.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
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To confirm we have a network install of SolidWorks at work. The Home Use Agreement is different then for a stand alone seat of SolidWorks.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
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The company I'm contracting to says oh nay-nay.
" Do you mean the home license portion from a valid license on a computer which is used by someone else 80% of the time? If you are the person using the 80%, the work/home license could be switched ... as long as someone else isn't using that license at the same time."
I'm using SW on a workstation about 92% of the time at work. Once very month or so somebody gets blocked when we get into an N=1 licenses situation. I think SW would consider me a legit home license candidate.