Switching Machines When Using Online Licenses

Online licensing gives you the flexibility to use one license across all your machines. However, the license can only be used on one machine at a time.

If you forget to log out of the SOLIDWORKS software on your primary machine, and try to log into a secondary machine (for example, a computer at home), the software offers to take your license from the first machine.

To start the SOLIDWORKS software on a machine when the software is still running on a different machine:

  1. When you attempt to log into the secondary machine, SOLIDWORKS informs you that an online licensed product is in use on a different machine. Click Yes to continue.

    The SOLIDWORKS product starts running on the secondary machine.

  2. When you return to your primary machine, you are prompted to save your work before the SOLIDWORKS software closes. Click OK to save the modifications to your model.