![]() You will be provided with a 24-character EViews serial number (beginning with the characters “13”) as part of your purchase. You may download the EViews 13 Full Installer for Windows 64-bit using one of the two links provided below. I also have to install Microsoft Office but I don't need to type that serial number in 20 times.Thank you for your purchase of EViews 13. To get Vectorworks running, I then have to log in as each user in turn, launch Vectorworks, type in the serial number, quit, logout, select the next user, and so on. When I set up a new Mac for my customer, I have to create an account for every one of the twenty staff here. If Vectorworks is dongle protected, why does it need serial numbers anyway? This system works well in one of the most theft-prone software markets anywhere. If you visit a studio, you take your dongle with you (on your keyring for example), and plug in to use all the software you own.ĭozens of manufacturers work with iLok so one dongle can contain the authorisations for all the stuff you use (and some Pro Tools users buy hundreds of plug-ins). All software runs in demo mode unless a dongle containing the code is present. The way the system works is to positively encourage people to install every bit of software they come across on every computer they come across. These USB devices cost about GBP 30 retail and have the ability to have product codes installed into them by transferring from a SIM card, or downloading from a manufacturer securely via the iLok web site. When I'm not looking after these architects I spend a lot of time working in the music business where Pro Tools, the most widely-used digital production system in the world, uses an 'intelligent' dongle called an iLok. ![]() I must say I'm bewildered by the Vectorworks copy-protection scheme. I have to belive that whatever algorithm generates the serial numbers is capable of this. I either need a single license code that allows for 13 simultaneous uses or a serial-free version that I can lock down with our KeyServer. We simply need more flexibility in the way of installing the software. We're not trying to rip them off or do anything illegal. I write to PLEAD that Nemetschek realize that not everyone who buys their software installs it in an "office" environment. I don't have so much a problem with this as I do with the inconvenience being imposed upon us by the primitive serializing scheme imposed by the software. Moreover, I have to actually install this software THIRTEEN TIMES so as to generate preference files for 13 separate workstations. I have to tell the prof that uses this software for his class that it will ONLY be available on 13 specific workstations (which is a terrible inconvenience to his students who will have homework involving the use of this software). In the box were 13 separate serial numbers, and the new version appears to have no provision for bulking up the prefs file with multiple serial numbers. ![]() Since the software prowls the local network making sure no other instance ofitself is running and broadcasting the same serial number, I didn't even have to mess with KeyServer! It was great. Vectorworks 9 for Mac blissfully allowed me to populate its preferences file with all the serial numbers we had acquired and thus install the same copy "everywhere". ![]() They have stated to me that they are only capable of providing individual serial numbers. Nemetschek refuses to do so, stating that they are somehow incapable of generating a single license code that will allow (in our case) 13 copies of the software to be launched and deny the 14th. To get around the legal problems of having a 10-user license for Widget software installed on over 100 workstations, we also make use of KeyServer (All other software vendors have been able to work with us to get us single license codes which allow many users instead of many individual codes. However, the Image I maintain serves hundreds of Macs all over campus. I install a piece of software once, upload the files it installs to the "Master Image", and the workstations pull it down the next time Assimilator is run. I use a product called Assimilator (abandonware) to both distribute new software as well as maintain the contents of workstation hard drives. Since I'm dealing with the Mac version of Vectorworks, I'll tailor my comments based on that. I make use of several products to make this A) as easy as possible and B) legal when a limited number of licenses are concerned. I manage software deployment to the computer labs and classrooms on my campus.
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