if someone is using it in the office and you try to start it on the shop floor you will get a warning saying no license is available, you'd have to ask that preson to exit MC so thaty you could use it somewhere esle.

You install it on as many computers you want but you only can run on one at a time.

Mastercam as well as many other CAM packages have network versions. I am not sure how our inventor is liscensed but it is installed on one computer and there is no security dongle, but I don't think that same license can be moved to another computer, Mastercam however, can be installed on as many computers as you can find but whether you go with a USB dongle or a nethasp will only run one(or as many seats as you bought) computer at a time.Īs for owning the program forever, I don't know if you can legally sell your rights to your license if you were to try to buy from someone else, I have heard of people trying this, but never heard the end result or the legality of the issue.

You also get better support from your dealer if you do this, since this is how both companies make the most off of you. What they have is a manintenace agreement that is $X per year and that will give you the latest and greatest release when it comes out as long as you keep paying maintenace fees. How software like that works is you pay for it up front and yes it is yours forever, some companies give you free upgrades most of the big ones do not unless it is patch or a fix for a critical problem. The price of mill level 3 sounds about right, we use Inventor here and I don't want to speculate on what we paid.

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