Once you have an Azure subscription, you can create a new lab plan in Azure Lab Services. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. Discuss with your organization's administrator to see if you can get access to an existing Azure subscription. To set up this lab, you need access to an Azure subscription. Follow more information on firewall settings and finding the lab's public IP, see firewall settings for labs. You may also need to open up ports to the lab virtual machines. See the instructions on Modifying License Manager Computer Ports for Windows Firewall that show how to add inbound and outbound rules to the license server's firewall. Verify that the appropriate ports are opened on your firewalls to allow communication between the lab virtual machines and the license server. You can't configure the lab plan's virtual network at a later stage. You need to enable advanced networking during the creation of your lab plan. Set up SolidNetWork License Manager on your server, by following the steps in Installing and Activating a License Manager in the SOLIDWORKS install guide.ĭuring the installation, make sure to note the port number and serial number of the license server, as you use this information in later steps.Īfter you set up the license server, follow these steps to connect your lab plan to your virtual network in Azure Lab Services. You typically host this license server in either your on-premises network or in a private network in Azure. SOLIDWORKS Network Licensing requires that you have installed and activated SolidNetWork License Manager on your license server. When a user is done using SOLIDWORKS, their license goes back into the centrally managed license pool so that it can be reused by another user.

This type of license is sometimes called a “floating” license because you only need to have enough licenses for the number of concurrent users. With this option, users share a pool of licenses that are managed by a licensing server. With SOLIDWORKS, engineers can easily create, visualize, simulate, and document their designs.Ī licensing option commonly used by universities is SOLIDWORKS’ Network Licensing.

SOLIDWORKS provides a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) environment for modeling solid objects and is used in different kinds of engineering fields. This article describes how to set up SOLIDWORKS 2019 and Network Licensing for engineering classes in Azure Lab Services.

For more information, see What's New in the August 2022 Update. This article references features available since the August 2022 Update, when lab plans replaced lab accounts.

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