#Solidworks standalone license software#

Most SOLIDWORKS software titles can be added to an SNL and shared among users. вЂ“ can all be added to SNL and shared among users. For example, SOLIDWORKS, Simulation, Flow Simulation, Electrical, Composer, Inspection, MBD, PCB, Plastics, etc. Nearly every software title from SOLIDWORKS can be put onto SNL. Your local Value Added Reseller can provide more information and put you in touch with a SOLIDWORKS sales representative about these specialized licensing options.

Global network licenses, often called вЂњfollow the sun licensing,вЂќ or Regional network licenses, can be purchased that removes global territory and country restrictions to varying degrees, however, these licenses may cost extra and must comply with the requirement that all users be of the same legal/corporate entity. SolidNetWork licenses can be shared by users of the same legal entity, in the same global territory, provided an SNL is purchased for each country in which there are clients/users. Users in China would not be allowed to access licenses from a server in the United States, and vice versa, even if the users are in the same company as each global territory must have its own SNL and pool of licenses. For example, SNLs installed and managed on a server in the United States may be accessed by users of the same company in Brazil and Mexico as long as one SNL was acquired in Brazil and another SNL was acquired in Mexico (for a total of three SNLs вЂ“ US, Brazil, Mexico).

#Solidworks standalone license license#

The global territories permitting license sharing from SNLs are: the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific.

A minimum of one SNL server license is required for each country in which there are client users.

Clients accessing the SNL license server must be located in the same global territory (defined below) as the server.

The network on which the SNL is installed may only serve licenses to client machines of the same legal corporate entity.

There are three important provisions that govern and limit the вЂњfloatingвЂќ nature of SNL licenses:

#Solidworks standalone license install#

Typically with SNL, administrators will install the software for every potential user, knowing that SNL will monitor concurrent usage to ensure that the number of concurrent users does not exceed the number of purchased licenses.

Once a user closes SOLIDWORKS or related product or Add-in, the license is immediately released back to the server for another user to use. When a user starts SOLIDWORKS or any related product or Add-in, it checks with the server to see if licenses are either in-use or available.

SNL uses a proven and reliable client/server distributed licensing approach, where access to the software is granted by a license server installed on your network that contains all of your entitlements. Like fuel-efficient cars or appliances, SNL or вЂњfloatingвЂќ licenses allow you to stretch your investment across your community of users. Product activation after installation for Standalone licenses. Once activated, you do not need to be online to use your software. Activation is a onetime process which requires that you have internet or email access to complete the process. It uses an вЂњActivate/DeactivateвЂќ mechanism to entitle the software for use after installation, or to move the license entitlement to another device such as a home, laptop or mobile computer or a new user all while ensuring only one license is in use at any one time. Standalone licenses, as the name implies, are intended for an individual user of SOLIDWORKS or any related product such as Simulation, Composer or Electrical. Today we will examine the two choices within perpetual licensing from SOLIDWORKS вЂ“ which are Standalone and SNL (SolidNetWork Licenses). We also looked at SOLIDWORKS commitment to offer and support perpetual licenses well into the foreseeable future. In our last blog article, we examined the difference between perpetual and term licenses and how you might leverage both license types to meet all your license entitlement needs.