It does however, have a few rules to follow.

Request a Home Use License from your reseller.

So, make sure you check with your team so you don’t leave someone licenseless. Borrowing a license removes that license/seat from the available pool of licenses. This is just as long as your machine is connected to the server at the ‘moment of borrowing’.

Borrow a license for a period of 30 days or less from the license manager on any client/user machine.

You don’t have the ability to use SOLIDWORKS on your home computer. You cannot pull a Professional or Premium license without pulling a Standard license. So really the license manager listing should read “Professional ADDINS”, rather than “Professional”. Why? Because when you are pulling a Professional license, the license manager is releasing a Standard license and the Professional ADD-INS. The SNL will show 1 Professional License and 2 Standard Licenses. Suppose you have a network license containing 1 Professional License and 1 Standard license. The way licenses are listed in the SNL can be misleading. Only once in 5 years have I seen SOLIDWORKS write an incorrect license file.

Which one of these 5 are you guilty of believing? You accidentally received extra licenses (yassss!). Let’s talk about your SOLIDWORKS network license and debunk those myths with facts.

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