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Rent or Lease for shortterm?
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Rent or Lease for shortterm?

Rent or Lease for shortterm?

(OP)
Does SolidWorks lease or rent licenses for short term, such as a few months? or are there other companies that lease a floating license.   I use another 3D CAD program for most work, but have one possible customer for a short term project and need to deliver files as native SW assemblies, parts and drawings.  

RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

I would contact a local VAR for a free trial or ask a SW user to convert the files for me after I had finished the design.

Dan

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RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

In a word, no. SolidWorks licenses aren't leased. If the customer you're going to do the work for has a license, you might be able to get away with the home usage portion of it, but I think you'd be hard pressed to, legally, find someone leasing.  

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

That may be the way to go.  If they have a licence server, you could load SolidWorks onto your computer and then just access their licence server when the program starts.  If they do not have a free seat you could pay the company to add another seat.  The incrimental cost should be more reasonable.

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RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

or you can tie-up with another freelancer....Who has a SWX licence.......

RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

Maybe I'm too straight-laced for this crowd, but I'd like to point out that the suggestions regarding co-opting the home-use license option of another person/company's license is NOT what the home-use setup is designed for.  This arrangement is intended so that the person who uses the license at work doesn't need a second license to install use the software on a home or travelling computer.  It is not so that two people can make use of a single license.

Now if for some reason the client has a floating license they're not using that you could access from their license server that should be fine.  Nowadays most companies I know of run pretty lean on license count in order to control cost, so I'd be surprised if your client had one floating around not in use.

RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

(OP)
I think we are all on the same page and this is understood; the discussion is only regarding legal and ethical ways to use the software.  We all know that there are unethical ways to go about using any software.

Between the answers here and from my local SW reseller, I have enough information.  Thanks everyone.     

RE: Rent or Lease for shortterm?

Actually I have seen a local reseller here in the Benelux talking about a leasing plan, fwiw

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