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Overview of Activation
Activation is software-based license management technology that allows
customers who have purchased legitimate software licenses to run the Autodesk
software. The technology is designed to deter casual copying and unauthorized
use of Autodesk products.
Activation verifies the validity of the serial number and the eligibility of the
computers for which the software has been installed. You will find that product
activation is a secure, process that does not change the way the software works
for licensed users.
Product Activation
All Design Academy products are pre-configured as multi-seat stand-alone
products. If you want to deploy your software on a network, you must call
Autodesk Customer Service Center at 800-551-1490 to request that the Design
Academy serial number be changed from multi-seat stand-alone to network.
When ready, the Autodesk Customer Service Center can then provide you
with your network activation code. For stand-alone products, installed from
the CD, registration and activation are not automated; instead, when you run
the product for the first time on each workstation, you must manually enter
the registration information.
NOTE The registration data you enter must match exactly at each workstation,
or product activation will not work. The information entered needs to be the same
for all products.
For multi-seat stand-alone products on a workstation, if you attempt to activate
a product and you receive the activation dialog box with the message, "Do
you want to launch the product or activate?" exit the product, and then restart
it. Your product should already be activated. If you receive this message after
relaunching and you have not activated the product before, you can manually
activate the product. If the product fails to activate, this could indicate that
the registration information does not match the registration information
Autodesk has on record. If the product is not activated, follow the activation
process again.
If you get locked out of online activation, you must call Autodesk Customer
Service Center (800-551-1490) for your code.
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