Licenses that are issued as part of a SOLIDWORKS CAD Professional or Premium subscription expire with the expiration of the subscription service and need to be reactivated after this date. Licenses can be perpetual or time-bound based on how you purchased the application. When activation finishes, an Internet connection is no longer required, but recommended. You do get one activation for each Professionals or Premium seat you have.Īctivation requires an Internet connection. Visualize does not have a floating license option at this time.
If you have network licenses of SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium, you will enter you network serial number. To Activate: Enter you SOLIDWORKS Professional, Premium, or Visualize Professional serial number. You have an option to either activate you license, or use the 15 day trial. When you first launch Visualize, you will be prompted with a license activation screen. You now have SOLIDWORKS Visualize installed on your machine. Once the installation finishes, you will have an option to read the release notes and launch the program.
Typical will use the default installation path.Ĭustom will allow the user to specify a custom installation path.Ĭustom install will also allow you to select which features will be installed.Ĭlick the Install button to begin the installation. Visualize will take you thru a very basic installer wizard.Ĭhoose the type of install, Typical or Custom.
You will use your SOLIDWORKS serial number for the activation. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a standalone install and does not need to be installed on the same machine as your SOLIDWORKS install. Make sure you are looking at the 2016 download page.Ĭlick the SOLIDWORKS visualize link to download the SWVizInstaller.msi The download link is separate from the SOLIDWORKS installer, but there may be plans in future version to combine this into the SOLIDWORKS installation manager. To download SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you will need to log into the SOLIDWORKS customer portal. HDR Light Studio connection: HDR Light Studio v5.3 or newer.NVIDIA ® graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro ® /NVIDIA GeForce ® /Tesla with at least NVIDIA Fermi chip Dual-GPU setup with at least NVIDIA Kepler ™ cards recommended.It provides more of the higher end tools that the community has been looking for. Visualize is not a replacement for Photoview, but should be seen as a complement its capabilities. Visualize Professional (separate license required) – Photo realistic rendering with the addition of high quality animations, render ques, and network rendering options. Visualize Standard – Photo realistic rendering with and easy to use dashboard of colors and finishes. If you choose not to renew your maintenance contract, then you will no longer get access to SOLIDWORKS Visualize. Visualize Standard is a new tool available to all SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium licenses that are current on subscription. SOLIDWORKS has given us a big power boost to present our designs at the highest level possible.