SolidNetWork Licensing and SOLIDWORKS Product Activation

If you run SOLIDWORKS Product Activation from the SolidNetWork License Manager, you must specify the product activation action to perform.

What Do You Want to Do?

Move your product license(s) to a new/upgraded computer

Move the license for this computer to the license key server at Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation.

Typically, you deactivate the license before removing the SOLIDWORKS software from a computer. You can reactivate the license on another computer.

Activate/Reactivate a software license

Activate a license on this computer.

Show activated software license information

Show all licenses activated on this computer.

When you start SOLIDWORKS Product Activation from the SOLIDWORKS software (that is, not from the SolidNetWork Licensing Manager), you do not see this screen. The SOLIDWORKS Product Activation action is determined automatically. For example, you started the SOLIDWORKS software while the license was not activated or you clicked a specific menu item in the SOLIDWORKS software (such as Help > Licenses > Show).