Congratulations! You’ve purchased SOLIDWORKS and are on your way to creating amazing 3D CAD designs. If this is your first time with the software, however, you may be unsure on how to get started.
Before you can get to designing, you must activate your SOLIDWORKS license.
Why Product Activation is Necessary
Product activation is required in order to authenticate licensed users in a secure, simple way during the installation process. It’s a step that allows SOLIDWORKS to verify that the serial number provided is legitimate and is not in use on more systems than permitted according to the SOLIDWORKS End-User License Agreement (EULA).
When Do I Have to Activate My License?
For 3 successive days, the SW site indicates that serial numbers both 2020-2021 and 2019-2020 editions are invalid. If I indicate that I do not have a serial number beginning with 9020, the SW site deviates from the EAA script and does not offer a download option. Either way, I cannot d/l Solidworks on a new SSD. The SOLIDWORKS Product Activation wizard should open and offer to activate if using a new SOLIDWORKS 3D Design trial serial number or when a trial add-in is enabled on start up. The automatic activation type will quickly activate the trial serial number.
We recommend activating your license immediately, but once you have installed and launched your SOLIDWORKS product, you have 30 days to complete activation. There are exceptions to this, however, as those that have an evaluation license with product activation included will have alternate requirements when it comes to activating.
What Do I Need to Provide for Activation?
All you will need is the product serial number, name, version and language, as well as the name of the operating system, version and language. It’s pretty straightforward, and most users will only have to go through product activation once.
Quick Steps for Activation
First, you will need to open the SOLIDWORKS application.
You can begin activation by hovering your cursor over the SOLIDWORKS logo at the top left of the screen. Then select Help > Licenses > Activate.
Continue onto the next prompt and choose to activate your SOLIDWORKS product now.
Solidworks Serial Number Check
Then, click the Product listing to select which product license you are activating. Multiple licenses may be selected.
You will then have to choose whether you are activating over the internet or using email to perform a manual activation. If you select manual activation, you will need to include your email contact information. Then click Next to continue.
If you chose to activate via the internet, it should activate automatically. With email activation, you will need to press Save to create a request file, then email the file to activation@solidworks.com. Once you receive a response file back, you can extract the file from email and click Open to load it.
Solidworks Serial Number Registry
If necessary, you can exit and rerun the activation procedure to open the response file.
There you have it. Simply click Finish and you have successfully activated your license.
Solidworks Serial Number 2014
Need Extra Support?
If you’re looking to enhance your SOLIDWORKS skills, we have a variety of methods to help you get started. Hawk Ridge Systems provides additional resources to support our customers, including live technical support, a blog and a YouTube channel that provide an extensive library of technical documents and cover a wide range of topics. We also highly recommend taking advantage of our SOLIDWORKS training that can help you become a proficient user.
If you have any questions, contact us and we will be happy to help. Thanks for reading!