This is by far the most common error message I receive when working in support. I have also included what you can do yourself and if you need to contact your VAR. In the below section I have listed the most common errors when deactivating or activating your SOLIDWORKS license. While working with SOLIDWORKS support, I have received a lot of phone calls regarding activation errors. If you do this it becomes much easier to identify the issue, if you need to contact your SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR). When the activation error message it is important that you take note of the error message or take a screenshot. However sometimes you will receive an error message. In most cases this goes fine without a hitch.
To make it easier to identify and troubleshoot if an activation issue occurs. 
To ensure that no one is misusing your license. The Activation Manager registers the computer for two reasons: Your computer communicates with the SOLIDWORKS Activation manager when activating and deactivating the SOLIDWORKS license. I will in a later blog post cover the activation and license errors when using SolidNetwork License (SNL) What is standalone activation I will briefly try to go through the four most common activation error messages when using a standalone license. For example, you can browse to an installation DVD or a download folder, provided that location contains all the required files.This is the first blog post regarding the SOLIDWORKS activation error message. SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager does not download any files, but uses the files in the selected directory.Ĭlick Browse to navigate to a different location. 
I already have all the installation files needed. The download will contain all files required to create an administrative image, not just those files required to perform an individual installation.
If you specified a limited set of products to download, this option ignores that specification and downloads all products contained in the product release. This will be the larger download because it contains the complete file set that you can use to install this version of any product on any computer.
Files to share with ANY computer: The download will contain the complete installation file set that can be used to install this version on any computer. You can use these download files to install on another computer, but when the installation runs you may have to download additional files to complete the installation file set on that computer. However, if you try to use this downloaded file set on another computer to perform an installation, some files could be missing (because the installation file set on the other computer might be different from this one). Only the prerequisite files that are required for your computer but not yet installed. Only files for products selected on the Product Selection page. This should be a smaller download because it contains:
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