SOLIDWORKS Product Activation Help SOLIDWORKS requires the license to be activated before you can use the software. Follow the steps described in the SOLIDWORKS Product Activation Wizard for individual and SolidNetWork licenses. Contents Activate/Deactivate Your SOLIDWORKS Product You can activate, reactivate, deactivate, or display SOLIDWORKS licenses for your computer using the SOLIDWORKS Product Activation Wizard. Manual Activation If you specified manual email activation, this screen enables you to send an email to SOLIDWORKS and then to load the license key response file they return to you. SOLIDWORKS Product Activation Results This screen displays the results of the SOLIDWORKS Product Activation action to activate, reactivate, deactivate, or show licenses. SolidNetWork Licensing and SOLIDWORKS Product Activation If you run SOLIDWORKS Product Activation from the SolidNetWork License Manager Server, you must specify the product activation action to perform. SolidNetWork License Server Information If you are activating a SolidNetWork license server computer, you must specify connection information about that computer.