Everything You Need to Know About Solidworks 2017 License Key
The SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API requires a license key that is only available via the SOLIDWORKS customer portal to SOLIDWORKS customers who are currently under subscription. Each user of SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API must have a license key.
Solidworks 2017 license key
Existing users must request new SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license keys beginning with SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API 2015 FCS and renew their SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license keys when installing any new major release of SOLIDWORKS or the SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API.
SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API checks the version of the file being accessed. If the file was created using the same or an earlier version of SOLIDWORKS than the version of SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license key, then SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API can access the file. However, if the file was created using a later version of SOLIDWORKS than the version of the SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license key, then SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API cannot access the file and a message is displayed informing the user that the current SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license key is expired. For example:
When requesting or renewing a SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license key, you are presented with a dialog containing a list of check boxes showing the categories of functionality that a SOLIDWORKS Document Manager API license key controls. You can select more than one category.
NOTE: A full SOLIDWORKS 2017 installation includes MSXML and the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012. Clients installing SOLIDWORKS Document Manager on systems without a full SOLIDWORKS installation must also install MSXML and the Visual C++ Redistributable or ensure that they have been previously installed.
For Network License users you simply need to install the2017 License manager and reactivate your SOLIDWORKS License to obtain theadditional Visualize Standard Licenses, you should be prompted to do this upon firstopening the new version of the License manager. Alternatively it can be donemanually from the License Administration tab > Modify
12 - Or if SOLIDWORKS 2017 is already installed you can modify your SOLIDWORKS Installation from the Windows Control Panel > Programs and Features. Pick the SOLIDWORKS install then select "Change"
If you have any issues please get in contact with Solid Solutions Support and look out for more info on What's New for SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2017 By Alan Sweetenham Elite Applications Engineer
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At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas, BIMForum announced the 2017 release of the Level of Development (LOD) specification. The Level of Development (LOD) Specification is a reference that enables practitioners in the AEC Industry to specify with a high level of clarity the content and reliability of Building Information Models (BIMs) at various stages in the design and construction process. The 2017 specification has been released under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to use the LOD specification non-commercially with attribution and no derivatives. In other words you can use it for free, as long as you don't sell it, that you include attribution to BIMForum and that you don't change it.
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