fresh install of 2006 and licensing Q's
fresh install of 2006 and licensing Q's
(OP)
I have here passed to me from another department of my company in the UK, the discs and dongle for a seat of SW2006.
We will probably upgrade this seat to current and purchase another seat sometime in the not to distant future.
Meanwhile as I haven't used SW at all since SW2000 I want to install this 2006 on a PC that never had it before. What I have is the discs for SW2005 and upgrade discs for 2006, and a dongle.
However I see inside the box a couple of postit notes with "registration numbers" for two PCs on which the software has been installed previously.
I thought that as this was dongled, it didn't matter how many PCs the discs were shoved into, you could only run the software with the one seat with the one dongle. I wasn't expecting to have to obtain an access code for a new PC from a reseller - if indeed that is possible for an obsolete version (it had better be, or they can go **%%!).
Now just suppose SW went bump, and the product was retired. (unlikely I know but that is what happened to my current 3D solid software. No upgrade path at all, and nobody on the end of the phone). Do you really need a code from a vendor (who is maybe no longer there) to get the software to run on a new machine after your hardware went SNAFU? I have legacy data on disc from the other department but the PCs are now all shipped out.
Do I have to make contact with a solidworks vendor to get this totally legal seat going again? My plan was to have a "play" with it over the weekend and it seems from trying to call my local reseller that they already went home (thats why I ask here).
So if your PC goes bang you have to wait for "normal working hours" to get a code for the spare PC you dug up to complete that "vital" job you were working on at the weekend?
We will probably upgrade this seat to current and purchase another seat sometime in the not to distant future.
Meanwhile as I haven't used SW at all since SW2000 I want to install this 2006 on a PC that never had it before. What I have is the discs for SW2005 and upgrade discs for 2006, and a dongle.
However I see inside the box a couple of postit notes with "registration numbers" for two PCs on which the software has been installed previously.
I thought that as this was dongled, it didn't matter how many PCs the discs were shoved into, you could only run the software with the one seat with the one dongle. I wasn't expecting to have to obtain an access code for a new PC from a reseller - if indeed that is possible for an obsolete version (it had better be, or they can go **%%!).
Now just suppose SW went bump, and the product was retired. (unlikely I know but that is what happened to my current 3D solid software. No upgrade path at all, and nobody on the end of the phone). Do you really need a code from a vendor (who is maybe no longer there) to get the software to run on a new machine after your hardware went SNAFU? I have legacy data on disc from the other department but the PCs are now all shipped out.
Do I have to make contact with a solidworks vendor to get this totally legal seat going again? My plan was to have a "play" with it over the weekend and it seems from trying to call my local reseller that they already went home (thats why I ask here).
So if your PC goes bang you have to wait for "normal working hours" to get a code for the spare PC you dug up to complete that "vital" job you were working on at the weekend?






RE: fresh install of 2006 and licensing Q's
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RE: fresh install of 2006 and licensing Q's
RE: fresh install of 2006 and licensing Q's
Eric