License Borrowing

[wfalco]

Hi,

I have figured out how to borrow a license and to set it in my system valiable. I have a few questions:

1. How do I return a license before its due date?

2. If I do not return the license before it's due date and check out a licence for more time, for example.....will the first one I borrowed still remain borrowed for the time left? I guess what I'm saying is.....do I have to return the license back before borrowing another? I don't want to monopolize the licenses.

Thanks,

Wayne

[BenLoosli]

Search the Knowledge base, plenty of hits on: return borrowed license early

[wfalco]

I am attempting to get a login to ptc support from our rep. hopefully I get that soon. Thanks.

[MartinHanak · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you can return the license using batch file containing something like this:

@echo off
set PATH="C:\PTC\Creo7_020\Creo 7.0.2.0\Common Files\x86e_win64\obj";%PATH%
lmutil lmborrow -return -c 7788@lic01 -vendor ptc_d PROE_DesignAdv
pause

[wfalco]

This is what I get....

[KenFarley]

Are you sure PROE_DesignAdv is the name of the license you borrowed?

I assume you changed the "lic01", and PATH addition to reflect your particular installation, yes?

[wfalco]

Hi Ken,

That will be a no to both questions.

I am just a cad guy trying to be an IT for a moment. I know I borrowed a license for 5 day. I tried it offline. I would just like to return it an take it out for a longer duration. I am thinking, if I don't return the first one, then I will be grabbing 2. I rarely give props to Autocad....but their process is all in one place to take and to return. No fancy stuff. LOL.

Wayne

[KenFarley]

Yeah, licensing stuff can be kind of cloak and dagger. Plus it seems PTC is never happy with the names they've chosen, or need to have new ones for the latest combos of features, etc. It's much better now than it was in the long ago, but still not very straightforward when you've got problems.

Glad you figured it out eventually.

Autocad, egads. I guess it's nice for people to do lots of stuff, especially factory layouts and the like, but I like my parametrics.

[wfalco]

Yeah - our company has a lot of legacy drawings done in Autocad. Even some of the new stuff is in Autocad. But that's being done by die hard Autocad fans. My group stays away from Autocad. But we still have legacy files. I do both CAD tools. Getting better at Autocad. I would never want to design anything in it. It does have 3D capabilities I have messed with, but not parametric.

You were helpful with my borrowing issue. Thank you. You got me to figure out which licence I borrowed and to figure out the right path.

[wfalco]

I figured it out!!!

I had to figure what nomenclature to use.

Thank You!