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Download SolidWorks with an existing license

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Nox_MD Posted messages 2 Status Member -
Hello,

As indicated in the title, I would like to download SolidWorks (not a trial or student version) without having to go through the purchasing process and requesting a quote on their website. I already have a floating license available at my company and I simply want to connect to it.
I must admit that I prefer to avoid solutions like "download it from a torrent site," etc.
Thank you in advance for your help.

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    athena223 Posted messages 14406 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 807
     
    Hello,

    Floating license... Or how to appropriate someone else's property.
    The only legal solution is to ask your company to provide you with the installation CD and a key.
    For the rest, we exceed the legal framework, so no solution will be provided on CCM.

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    Doing your own research before posting on CCM is the fastest solution!
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    1. Nox_MD
       
      I admit I'm curious to know how a floating license is considered "theft of someone else's property" or something illegal? My company paid for its license, installed the software with the CD (but in a branch in another city, so I don't have access to it) and it is available on its network for certain users. Given the reaction, it feels like I might as well have been talking about cracking, while this is a common practice in all companies and schools (I am a student and the personal computer provided by my school is packed with floating licenses available. Paying for a license for thousands of students for each software would be unfeasible).
      Also, I invite you to read the last lines of the Wikipedia article on floating licenses... hoping that it will temper your fervor towards me, who is doing nothing wrong (or then someone needs to explain it to me).

      http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_flottante
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    2. zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   6 502
       
      Hello,

      My company has paid for its license, installed the software with the CD (but in a branch in another city, so I don’t have access to it) and it is available on its network to allow access to certain users.
      So you need to install the software provided by your company, and only that one, with your company’s blessing.
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    3. Nox_MD
       
      So you need to install the software provided by your company, and only that one, with your company's blessing.
      And that’s the subject of my question. As mentioned above, the design office that initially purchased the software is in another city, so they can't send me the installation CD in a timely manner. That’s why I am trying to find out how to download the software from their site without having to repurchase a license and then enter the serial number along with the "activation key" that I have directly on the software.
      As for my company's blessing, it is obvious that I am not acting solely on my own will, and it is them who are inviting me to download it in order to connect to their license. =)
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    4. zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   6 502
       
      As for the blessing of my business, it is clear that I am not acting on my own will and it is they who invite me to download it to get grafted onto their license. =)
      So it is up to them to provide you with THE method or THE site that is suitable...
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    5. Nox_MD
       
      So it's up to them to provide you with THE method or THE site that suits...

      I don't pretend to be a genius, but I don't think I fit the stereotype of someone who's dependent either, and if they knew how to do it, I wouldn't be here. The only three other people using SW are in the BE and have used the CD. I'm the only one who wants and needs to go through THE website (which I suspect, albeit naively, to be solidworks.com).
      As for THE method, since my company cannot provide it to me, I turn to online forums dedicated to mutual assistance, hoping that a kind person who may have been in the same situation as me can enlighten me.
      Thank you.
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