To Activate, Borrow, Renew, or Switch a License

Activate a trial license, borrow a license, change license type, view license information, or renew a license.

After you've deployed products to individual workstations in your network, you or users in your network can manage licenses directly from each product.

Warnings appear in a product in these situations:

• When you must reconnect to the Internet to use the product.
• When your license is approaching its renewal date.

Note: In the following steps, User Account refers to your user account menu, where your user name appears.

Activate a Trial

• Click User Account > Manage License > Activate Product.

Borrow a License

Borrowing a network license allows temporary use of a product on an offline computer.

Note: Not all products support license borrowing.

1. Click User Account > Manage License.
2. Click Borrow.
3. In the Borrow A License calendar, click the date when you will return the license. This date must be within the valid range (six months or the subscription term, whichever is shorter), or the range you specified in an options file.
4. In the License Borrowed message, click Close. The license is borrowed, allowing the product to be used offline.

Note: In some products, you can verify that a license is borrowed by placing the cursor over the Borrowing icon in the status tray. It's in the lower-right corner.

Because a borrowed license is configured for use by a specific user on a specific computer and network card, you should not change your login user name. Also make sure that your network card remains active. Some laptop computers disable the network card in power-save mode, so you may need to change this setting to retain access to the product.

Change License Type

• To switch between User, Device, and Network license types, click User Account > Change License Type .

  This command allows you to choose an existing license or to complete the licensing of a newly selected type. It doesn't remove or deactivate existing device licenses.

Note: Restart the product to complete the selection.

Get License Information

1. Click User Account > License Information. The License Manager displays a list of licenses currently active in this session.
2. To see details for troubleshooting, expand the drawer on an active license.

Renew a License

Multi-user subscriptions expire in one, two, or three years. They do not autorenew, but require explicit renewal before a subscription expires. You must also update the license file with information about the renewed licenses. There are two ways to make this update.

Update all licenses by generating a license file for all products (recommended).

1. Go to Autodesk Account and select the option to generate the license file for all network products for a given server.
2. Add this new license file to your license server.

Update the renewed snippet in the license file.

1. From the license file you receive by email when you renew, copy the snippet that lists the renewed products with their new expiration date.
2. Paste the snippet into your current license file.

Note: To avoid warning messages, you can remove the expired license snippets from your license file.