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Gucio16-Pearl
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January 19, 2017
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home-use licenses

  • January 19, 2017
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What is the format of files created with "Home-use license" ?? When file was created in trail version of Creo there is no possibility to open it in comersial version. Question is: Will it be possible with home-use license?? What in case when user did some work at home an took it to office?

    Best answer by MartinHanak

    Hi,

    when customer buys subscription license of Creo Parametric, PTC adds 2 Home-use licenses to every single commercial license as gift.

    • Users are allowed to install Home-use licenses on their personal home computers, only.
    • Home-use licenses must not be installed on company computers.
    • Home-use licenses enable users to do their production work at home.
    • Data created with Creo using Home-use licenses are readable with Creo using commercial license and vice versa.

    MH

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    23-Emerald III
    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    January 19, 2017

    If I understand correctly, the hone-use license is a rebranded academic version and the files are not compatible with the commercial version.

    If you need to do work at home, and have enough licenses, you can borrow a commercial version for a period of time realizing that your license pool at work has been reduced by 1.

    Alternative is to permanently transfer a license from your work server pool to your home computer. We just did this for a manager so he can learn Creo 4.

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    Gucio16-PearlAuthor
    16-Pearl
    January 20, 2017

    HI Ben,

    to borrow you have to connect your personal computer to company's environment - what is not allowed sometimes.

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    23-Emerald III
    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    January 20, 2017

    Right, we have that issue here which is why I transferred a license to the manager's personal laptop for his use away from the office.

    I stand corrected on the home-use compatibility issue, as Martin has explained, the files should be transferrable.

    However, the fact that home-use licenses are ONLY available with subscription-based licenses means that we will NEVER get home-use licenses here. The cost of converting is too expensive. Our Mathcad licenses are subscription and they do have the home-use licenses included when we get new license files.

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby IIIAnswer
    24-Ruby III
    January 19, 2017

    Hi,

    when customer buys subscription license of Creo Parametric, PTC adds 2 Home-use licenses to every single commercial license as gift.

    • Users are allowed to install Home-use licenses on their personal home computers, only.
    • Home-use licenses must not be installed on company computers.
    • Home-use licenses enable users to do their production work at home.
    • Data created with Creo using Home-use licenses are readable with Creo using commercial license and vice versa.

    MH

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      23-Emerald III
      StephenW23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      January 19, 2017

      Is that specifically "subscription" license as opposed to the purchase of a license?

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      MartinHanak24-Ruby III
      24-Ruby III
      January 20, 2017

      Hi,

      there are two types of Creo commercial licenses:

      • perpetual ... company buys license, when it stops paying license support, license is frozen on current Creo version and works forever
      • subscription ... company buys license, when it stops paying license support, license is lost

      MH

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