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SEE Electrical Licensing with

software key

V8R2
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CONTENTS

SEE ELECTRICAL LICENSING WITH SOFTWARE KEY ........................................................................ 1

A LICENSING VIA SOFTWARE KEY .................................................................................................... 4
A.1. LICENSE WITH A SOFTWARE KEY - INTRODUCTION........................................................................... 4
A.1.1. Different Network Cards Used during Softlock Licensing ..................................................... 5
A.1.2. License with a Software Key ................................................................................................. 5
A.1.3. Terminal Server Support ..................................................................................................... 10
B USING V8R2 AND OLDER VERSIONS IN PARALLEL .................................................................. 11
B.1. CUSTOMERS WITH SOFTLOCK AND VERSION V8R1, V7R2, V7R1, V6R1 OR V5R1 ........................ 11
C USING V4R1 AND V8R2 .................................................................................................................. 12
C.1. CUSTOMERS WITH SOFTLOCK AND VERSION V4R1 ....................................................................... 12

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A LICENSING VIA SOFTWARE KEY

This chapter helps you to license SEE Electrical if your software is protected by a software key..

If you work with Administrator and User profiles, there are two procedures for installing and licensing:

1. The software must be installed under the Administrator's account.

If the user must log on as main user on the computer, it is enough to fill in, and close the License
wizard.

2. The User profile must receive Administrator rights during the installation. The Administrator
rights can be removed after installing and licensing.

A.1. LICENSE WITH A SOFTWARE KEY - INTRODUCTION

If you use a software key, the computer, where SEE Electrical must be licensed has to be connected
to the internet.
If you do not have the possibility to connect your computer to internet at least to license V8R2,
contact your dealer as you have to use a dongle or a local licence server in the future.

Hint:

The use of the software is allowed only within your contract and/or the License agreements
(displayed during the installation).

Attention:

If a new installation of SEE Electrical is needed later, the licensing procedure must be executed
again.
When the type of license allows, the releasing of the licence must be made before uninstalling or
reinstalling SEE Electrical, or before reinstalling the operating system on this PC or changing the
hard disk, etc.
It is required to free the license in order to register the SEE Electrical license again after an update.

After licensing, you can use SEE Electrical unlimited.

If you are not familiar with the program, we recommend to work through the Workspace Example 1
(in the User Manual) to receive a general introduction into the program.

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A.1.1. DIFFERENT NETWORK CARDS USED DURING SOFTLOCK LICENSING

Before you start the licensing procedure, SeeProtectionConfig.exe can be used to define which
network card shall be used to calculate the Softlock (in case, for example, an internal network card is
present at the computer but a wireless networking key has to be used when licensing).

▪ Choose the one to use and press OK.

A.1.2. LICENSE WITH A SOFTWARE KEY

When the type of license allows, by using this method of licensing, it is possible to enable an already
installed license again (a license can be used on a company PC and on a laptop alternately.)

The releasing of the license must be made before uninstalling or reinstalling of SEE Electrical,
or before reinstalling the operating system on this PC or exchanging the hard disk etc. It is
required to free the license in order to register the SEE Electrical license after an Update
again.

If SEE Electrical Version V8R2 and an older version are used on the same computer parallel,
the following particularities apply: you have to release the license for the version V5R1 before
you can license the version V8R2 and vice versa.

If you start SEE Electrical for the first time, the License wizard appears automatically.

▪ Enter your company data here.

▪ Select the type of protection used for your software: "My software is protected with a
software key or this is a trial version".
▪ Click Next.
The License wizard dialog box appears (see below).

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If you don't register the license now, you can perform this by executing File menu ➤ System
Settings ➤ Licence tab. In this case, all the workspaces must be closed.
The following dialog box appears:

Various data can appear in the dialog box.

▪ Enter the serial number as given in your certificate. Each serial number consists of 8
digits.
▪ If you need to define Proxy settings, refer to the chapter below.
▪ Press the License on Internet button. Make sure before that the Internet connection is
available.
You will come to the internet site where you can generate your license code.

▪ Enter the licence password as given to you in your certificate. Upper and lower case is not
considered.
▪ Click the Licence button. If the license request is correct, it is stated within the window:

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Of course you only get unlock codes for those modules included in your license.

If you possess several serial numbers of SEE Electrical, never licence one serial
number while another serial number is licensed on this PC. Otherwise, you will lose
one license. If one license is already available, you will receive a warning message.

▪ Close the dialog box.

▪ Click Finish in the License wizard, and then click OK.
After clicking on Finish, you can use SEE Electrical unlimited within your license.

Free license again

When the type of license allows, by clicking the Free license button in the License
my software over the Internet dialog box, you can remove your license code from
the PC where it was installed, and then you can license SEE Electrical on another
PC.

Fixed Licenses

Not all users are able to release their license via the internet. It depends on your
contract. If you cannot release your license (type of license - FIXED) and you would
like to, please contact your local supplier.

Flexible and Flexible delayed

If you have a flexible or flexible delayed license, before clicking the Free license
button, enter your licence password again.
A license of type flexible can be transferred to another computer immediately.
A license of type flexible delayed can be transferred, but is not available one hour
after the transfer. The only exception is when the same machine that transferred
requests the license again.

"Remove the license when application closes" option

When this option is enabled, your licence will be released when you close the
application. This setting is only available if the option is available in your contract.

To remove the licence, make sure that you are connected to the internet.

When the option is enabled, each time you close the program, the system asks you
whether or not to remove the licence. If you answer with Yes, you have to license
again next time you want to use SEE Electrical.

When using the "Remove the license when close the application" option, a new
registry key - License\General\AskToLicenseOnOpen – allows you to define if the
program will ask you or not about the licensing on the startup.
Value 1 - a message appears.
Value 0 - the message will not appear, but the software will try to license
automatically in case there is a valid license code.

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This new registry setting is useful when you try to open a project from the Windows
Explorer or PDM systems like Microsoft Share Point, etc. In this case, it will not be
possible to open a project if this message appears, so you need to switch it off.

Proxy settings

The Proxy settings button in the License Wizard dialogue to allow you a connection
by using proxy settings

▪ Click the Proxy Settings button and enter the information in the dialogue that
appears:

▪ Enable "Use Proxy Server".

The input fields for IP address "Address" and port of the Proxy-server "Port" are
activated.

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If you do not know the appropriate values, ask your network administrator.
If you use a Proxy server with authentication, you can switch the setting "Use Proxy
Authentication" and type the "User Name" and the "Password" used for this.

"Do not use proxy server for following addresses:"

You can click to select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box, if you
do not want the proxy server computer to be used when you connect to a computer
on the local network (this may speed up performance). For more information refer to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135982.

Example:

Save your settings with OK.

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A.1.3. TERMINAL SERVER SUPPORT

SEE Electrical can be used in terminal server environments for licenses licensed via softlock (by
internet or local license server) or FlexLM. It is necessary to license each individual user.
The licensing algorithm detects if the software is used in such an environment and adds user name
to the licensing process. For example, if three users want to use the software in the same time you
will need three licenses..
Dongle protection cannot be used if the software is installed on terminal server. In case the software
is installed on terminal server (or remote desktop, that means in any case where RDP protocol used)
a message informs you in case protection by dongle is chosen.

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B USING V8R2 AND OLDER VERSIONS IN PARALLEL

B.1. CUSTOMERS WITH SOFTLOCK AND VERSION V8R1, V7R2, V7R1,

V6R1 OR V5R1
It is possible to use one of these versions and SEE Electrical V8R2 at the same time if your licence
code is the same. The procedure is the following:

▪ Remove, on the internet, the licence code for the older version.
▪ Open SEE Electrical V8R2.
▪ Licence the product.
After you have licensed SEE Electrical V8R2, you have to license SEE Electrical V6R1 also.
It is not automatically licensed. After you can use the two versions parallel.

Note

If you remove the licence only for SEE Electrical V8R2. In this case the license for SEE Electrical
V6R1 is automatically removed.

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C USING V4R1 AND V8R2

C.1. CUSTOMERS WITH SOFTLOCK AND VERSION V4R1

The software used for the protection had to be changed to improve support with MS Vista and
Windows 7. Additionally with the new protecting software it is not necessary any more to have
administrator rights to license or remove the license.

Because of the change of protection the licensing of the program by software in the future is only
possible, if the computer is connected to the internet while licensing.

If you have licensed by software the V4R1 and do not have the possibility to connect your computer
to the internet in order to license V8R2, please contact your dealer as you have to use a dongle.

Because of the new protection software, you have to put your V4R1 license to the database on the
internet before you can license the V8R2. For the installation you still need Administrator rights.

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