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May 27,  · Re: Altium Designer license. «Reply #7 on: May 26, , am». Altium designer comes as a “Perpetual License”, and can be purchased as such. That means that it continues to work forever. However, unless you are on a current “subscription”, you don’t get updates or big fixes. Payment Frequency: One Time. Altium Designer® term-based licensing allows you to use the licensed software for a specified period, for example, a month term. Designers and organizations preserve cash flow while also having the flexibility to scale capacity with additional seats. Term-based licenses include a Standard subscription for the. Jan 26,  · Altium Designer – Viewer Edition. View and cross-probe between layout and schematic design. Download now MB. 4 on 24 votes. 0 /5 stars. Developer: Altium Limited. License: Freeware. Total downloads: 9, (26 last week) Latest version:
 
 

Standalone Licensing of Altium Designer | Altium Designer 22 User Manual | Documentation – Component Management

The following users thanked this post: nctnico. Without the subscription paid for a given year then you could not get any updates past the last version you paid for at the time your subscription ended. So my main concern is what grim fate may befall to people without subscriptions but “perpetual” licenses if at some point Altium goes out of business, gets sold, or otherwise fails to keep up the cloud licensing system.

Altium changed some of their server side stuff with respect to parts searching that broke in older versions of Altium. The support response was basically just “oh your subscription ran out? I did it the other way around, , file-based -eternal Me: My AD is crashing here during start-up. DID work yesterday. AD: You have a paid subscription, but we won’t help you since you are running VMware.

They cannot handle networks. Me: Looks like I have to help myself. Me: No! It turned out that I had renamed an old library from.

VMware CAN do networks. It is their core business. AD makes not even the slightest plausibility checks when reading files. I just witnessed a spam campaign before the end of the second quarter to renew.

The wording is as if I had no valid license. I renewed in to note that everything is different, new bugs, tries to link me to their cloud but nothing that is of interest to me. Cancelled again. Posts: Country:. The following users thanked this post: rmaranhao.

You’re completely correct. Quote from: SpacedCowboy on June 02, , am. Quote from: evb on June 02, , am. There are small lies, big lies and then there is what is on the screen of your oscilloscope.

Pages: [ 1 ] 2 Next All Go Up. There was an error while thanking. SMF 2. EEVblog on Youtube. To be able to use the license between two computers – for example, to work between the office and home though not running the two instances of Altium Designer simultaneously!

This requires first saving or backing-up the file. Backing-up the license file also means you will not have to sign-in to your account, and reactivate , should you accidentally delete the license file. To create a back-up, select the Standalone license in the Available Licenses region then click on the Save standalone license file link.

Use the subsequent dialog to determine where to save the file. In accordance with the EULA , the Standalone license can also be installed on a home computer, so long as this second installation is never used simultaneously with the original installation.

You do not need to sign-in to use the Standalone license on the other computer – just add the license file and continue working offline with the license. The license will appear listed in the Available Licenses region as a Standalone — Offline license.

To remove a Standalone license from a computer – essentially deleting the license file – simply select the Standalone license in the Available Licenses grid, then click on the Delete link in the area below the grid, or right-click and choose the Delete command from the context menu.

A confirmation dialog will appear – click Yes to proceed. If you delete your Standalone license, then sign-in to your Altium account, the Standalone license is still available to you, although you will no longer be using it. The Activated field will reflect the license’s prior activation with the entry Activated.

To use the license again, either add the Standalone license file back in or, if you haven’t made a back-up of the file, simply reactivate the license, using one of the following methods:. When reactivating a Standalone license within Altium Designer, and that license has already been activated, a dialog will appear alerting you to this fact and warning that using the license again may conflict with another user on the network if they are using the same license.

If you are sure that you are the only person using the license, click Yes to proceed with activation. The Activated field will change to Used by me. In addition, a history of activation can be viewed by clicking on the arrow symbol to the left of the license entry. This will show who activated the license, and on what date. View the activation history for a Standalone license. If you are actively using a Standalone license, disconnecting from Altium will not affect the license, in the sense that it is already activated and in use.

Remember that being totally disconnected from Altium means having enabled the connection option No, I wish to remain disconnected from Altium , on the System – Account Management page of the Preferences dialog. Irrespective of whether you are signed in or working offline with the license, simply disconnect and carry on working in true standalone fashion.

However, if you are accessing your Standalone license for the very first time, or you have inadvertently deleted the license from your computer and have no backup of the associated license file , you will need to activate reactivate the license. This can be done, while disconnected from Altium, in the following two ways:. Use the Activate Standalone License dialog to create a temporary connection to Altium, with which you can quickly activate your Standalone license.

Successful activation of a Standalone license! Standalone Licensing of Altium Designer. Using Altium Documentation. This is especially useful where client computers cannot access the internet for whatever reason. An Admin user – who does have connection to the internet – simply accesses and activates the licenses, then passes the relevant. When you sign in to your account, you do so through an Altium Portal. On the Altium side, a portal is simply a secure connection through to a specific Altium Account Management Server.

If you prefer to work offline, switching Altium Designer to an offline mode, and essentially severing the connection to Altium – enable the No, I wish to remain disconnected from Altium option.

By enabling this option, your installation of Altium Designer will stay completely disconnected from Altium.