Free Serial Number For Solidworks

[Tina Popielarczyk]

NOTEThis step is not necessary if you are changing from a network license serial number to a standalone serial number, or if you are changing from a trial serial number to a permanent serial number.

Please Note: If the only option available is Uninstall, then SOLIDWORKS was installed using an Administrative Image and a different procedure should be followed. Have your IT administrator contact your SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller for further instructions.

A common request from technical support is for SOLIDWORKS users to provide their SOLIDWORKS serial number along with which version and service pack they are running. Below are the various methods for locating that information quickly.

In this article, you'll learn serial number management skills every SOLIDWORKS user and admin should have. We'll focus mostly on standalone serials, but address network serial numbers and how they differ from standalone. These are the topics we're going to discuss

A SOLIDWORKS serial number is a 24-character alphanumeric string. This string is what gives a computer permission to launch and use SOLIDWORKS. You should keep meticulous track of your serial numbers(s). I suggest creating an Excel spreadsheet to track the following information

A standalone serial number gives only one machine permission to SOLIDWORKS at a time. You can have SOLIDWORKS installed on as many machines as you'd like, but only one machine will have permission to launch and use SOLIDWORKS. If you need to switch machines, you will need to deactivate the machine and then activate another. (See Activating/Deactivating instructions)

SOLIDWORKS will not launch until a serial number is activated. "Activation" gives permission to a machine to open and run the software. Once activated, the serial number will determine what SOLIDWORKS products, tools, and add-ons will be available. Simply input serial numbers on their respective lines, and the portions of the software you are entitled will become available.

To activate, simply launch SOLIDWORKS. The Activation Wizard will appear and prompt for activation. Elect to activate Automatically over the internet. Click 'Next' through the prompts and you're activated! SOLIDWORKS can now be used on this machine.

To deactivate a machine, simply use the SOLIDWORKS Help Menu at the top of the window and select Licenses > Deactivate (Note: You must be able to launch SOLIDWORKS in order to deactivate.) The best way to deactivate a standalone serial number is from within SOLIDWORKS. If you cannot deactivate, contact GoEngineer Technical Support.

Clicking Deactivate will launch the Activation Wizard. The easiest method is to select the serial number you wish to deactivate and elect to deactivate it Automatically over the internet. The Activation Wizard will reach over the internet and change the status to deactivated. Your serial number is now ready to be activated elsewhere. If you need a video walkthrough, watch this video: SOLIDWORKS - Standalone License Deactivation and Activation.

A note from the tech support team: Tech support at GoEngineer cannot remotely deactivate a computer. The only action we can take is disable. Disabling a computer permanently disables its current configuration from ever using the serial number again and releases the activation. If the disabled computer needs to use SOLIDWORKS again, Windows or new hardware will need to be installed.

The Bill of Materials Options setting is configuration specific, meaning this setting can be set differently for each configuration. This is usually an undesirable situation. New configurations always default to Document Name, so change this setting if you need to!

An easy way to see what will be shown as the part number in your BOM is to open the ConfigurationManager. The inset in the following image shows a value in brackets. That value is the text which was typed in after selecting User Specified Text, and is what's shown in the PART NUMBER column.

Clicking Properties in the File menu with open the Summary Information window. Selecting the Custom tab will display information similar to that shown in the following image. In our example, some Custom Properties have already been added. To add a Property Name, click in the first row under Property Name and either pick a predefined value from the list or enter your own.

To complete the process of adding a Custom Property, select the Type of property, followed by a Value / Text Expression. Press Tab or Enter and the Evaluated Value cell should populate. Repeat as needed and click OK when finished.

Specifying a Custom Property for the part number overrides SOLIDWORKS internal mechanism for determining what the part number should be. When this happens, the "Bill of Materials Options" setting in a configurations Properties become pointless!

Creating a Custom Property that looks or sounds like "Part Number" can be dangerous for the sole reason that end users may be drawn to it and will disregard the mechanism already set up to control what SOLIDWORKS uses as a BOM part number. The only time this arrangement becomes workable is if your entire team has been trained on the internal process and is on the same page. That usually means the drafting, design and engineering department, IT department, and technical support staff.

Part numbers and additional identification numbers can coexist. If your company requires a second internal part number, a manufacturers part number, or some other identifying number, give the custom property a descriptive name to help reduce confusion.

Funny thing is if I rename the Solidworks part file in the workspace to a different file name and then rename it back to the original file name. The drawing is then allowed to be created with the same part number as the part file.

If you also keep filename and number the same you can easy see the "number" in solidworks and also use it to show the number in the drawing - with solidworks function to show filename without extension.

Why does the balloon numbering not respect the bill of materials (BOM) item numbers?

This can occur for drawings where multiple bills of materials (BOM) were previously inserted or are inserted.

Why does a balloon attached to a general view get a number not listed in the bill of materials?

When attaching a balloon to a component in a view (different from the view used to create the bill of materials), the balloon automatically gets the number, following the FeatureManager tree of the configuration specified in the view.

Why are the balloons in a drawing not following the Bill of Materials (BOM) numbering?

The balloons in a drawing may not be following the Bill of Materials if the drawing view is not linked to the BOM. Therefore, the balloon numbers are defaulting to assembly order.

Running this code will successfully add the files to the vault. However, every added file now has a different serial number for each configuration (including the "@" and "default" configurations). When I create a new file directly in the vault, it's set up to have every configuration automatically share one serial number. Why is it different in this scenario? Any way to have these added files mimic regular ones and share one serial number across all configurations?

Unfortunately i cannot comment due to reputation, but i would suggest checking that the data card setup is not folder specific and is being used for the newly created folder you are placing the files in.

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.

There are different ways to find your serial number, but in this blog, we will see one method.

Start SOLIDWORKS, Select Help Menu and pick About SOLIDWORKS as shown in the below image.

The data provided to the Reduced Order Flexible Solid block must refer to a consistent common reference frame. This reference frame defines the x, y, and z directions that specify the relative position of all points in the body. The frame also defines the directions of the elastic degrees of freedom associated with each interface frame.

The number of the degrees of freedom Nreduced equals 6n + m, which includes six rigid-body degrees of freedom. The number of elastic degrees of freedom equals Nreduced - 6. The number of the degrees of freedom determines the size of the stiffness and mass matrices. For the matrices, the order of the rows and columns must correspond to the order of the Ureduced.

For example, a ROM data set generated by the Craig-Bampton method with two boundary nodes and 10 fixed-interface normal modes has a total of 22 degrees of freedom. If you use the ROM data, the block generates an internal representation of the flexible body that has six rigid-body and 16 elastic degrees of freedom. To further reduce the number of the elastic degrees of freedom, you can set Reduction to Modally Reduced. If you specify Number of Retained Modes to 8, the flexible body retains the eight lowest-frequency modal degrees of freedom in addition to the six rigid-body degrees of freedom.

To specify the damping characteristics of the flexible bodies, the block has three damping methods: proportional damping, uniform modal damping, and damping matrix methods. For more informations, see Damping.

Damping can significantly influence simulation performance. For example, when modeling a body with little or no damping, undesirable high-frequency modes in the response can slow the simulation. In that case, adding a small amount of damping can improve the speed of the simulation without significantly affecting the accuracy of the model.

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