
Select the Help tab from the upper ribbon.ģ.If you do not pay maintenance, you will lose the access to SOLIDWORKS CAM.ĥ. The SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard license is free to those who pay maintenance annually.
Your company decided not to pay maintenance. SOLIDWORKS License manager has been refreshed, this could happen around the maintenance renewal date. Some users are seeing an issue when starting SOLIDWORKS. This could be caused by 2 issues that we will cover in this article. What happened?Įrror warning: “Could not obtain a license for SolidWorks standard. Run Solidworks (will prompt to activate now, etc.It was working yesterday, this morning I’m getting this error. Go back to Add/Remove Windows Components, then turn off Indexing Service (unless you enjoy watching your computer eat itself alive)ġ3. Go to Set program access and Defaults -> Add/Remove Windows Components, then turn on Indexing Serviceġ1. Delete any folder that says anything about Dassault systems, Solidworks, or COSMOSĨ. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users in Windows Explorer, then go to the address bar and add \Application Dataħ. Uninstall 3D XML Viewer, and absolutely anything else connected with either Solidworks or Dassault SystemsĦ. Uninstall COSMOS FloWorks and Motion WorksĤ. Installation instructions for installing Solidworks 2009 student edition on a machine that already has Solidworks 2008 student edition:ġ. Also, I hate anything related to indexing or any type of desktop search (massive resource hog on our ancient machines, and really nothing but a band-aid for poor file management IMO), so these instructions are more geared to appease the desktop search "feature" that I hadn't figured out how to exclude until after this was all taken care of.
Put together some quick instructions for our guys.they are probably a bit overkill, but should be reliable at least, and I didn't want to futz around with it much.
I remember having similar ems like it didn't properly uninstall Solidworks '08, and you had to manually go in there and delete the old license files yourself or it got very angry.