What is my SOLIDWORKS serial number? Which SOLIDWORKS version and service pack am I currently running? You may have asked yourself these questions, or needed to know the answer in order to receive technical support or run an upgrade. This blog post will show you how to find the SOLIDWORKS system information for your current installation.NOTE: If you are looking for a serial number for a From the SOLIDWORKS Help MenuYou should start SOLIDWORKS, select the Help menu and then pick “About SOLIDWORKS” as shown in the figure below.
It was working yesterday, this morning I’m getting this error. What happened?Error warning: “Could not obtain a license for SolidWorks Visualize standard. Invalid (inconsistent) license key. (-8, 544, 0)”.Some users are seeing an issue when starting This could be caused by 2 issues that we will cover in this article. SOLIDWORKS License manager has been refreshed, this could happen around the maintenance renewal date. Your company decided not to pay maintenance.or Composer, depending on the SOLIDWORKS version loaded, is free to those who pay maintenance annually.
SOLIDWORKS calls it a “term license”. If you do not pay maintenance you will lose access to Visualize Standard.How to fix this issue:Network License. Select the Server Administration tab. Stop the license server. Select Modify License.
Activate/Reactivate the license.5. The server should start automatically.6.
Select OK to close the license server.Standalone License. Open SOLIDWORKS. Select the Help tab from the upper ribbon.3. Select Activate license from the pull-down menu.4. Select all or just SOLIDWORKS Visualize.5. Select next to activate the license.Maintenance Expired.
Open SOLIDWORKS. Select the Tools tab from the top ribbon. Select Add-ins from the pull-down.4. Un-check the Active Add-ins and the Startup.5. After unchecking the Add-ins for Visualize, the notification will stop when starting SOLIDWORKS.Please check back to the as the Dedicated Support Team will continue posting articles every month that go further into the details of many of the SOLIDWORKS tools.
All of these articles will be stored in the category ofRonnie FlaughCATI Support Engineer.