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Solidworks Activation Error

Issue

I have installed the student edition of SOLIDWORKS on my personal computer.  When I try to launch SOLIDWORKS, a message is displayed indicating there are 0 days left in my grace period.

Symptoms

You may see a window similar to this:

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Cause

SOLIDWORKS occasionally needs network access to "phone home" to SOLIDWORKS's licensing servers.  

Solution

To reactive SOLIDWORKS, make sure you have an active network connection, such as by launching a web browser and ensuring you can navigate to https://www.google.com.  Then, in the SOLIDWORKS Product Activation window, click Next, select activate "Automatically over the Internet", type in your @colorado.edu email address, then click Next.

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If activation was successful, you should see a message similar to this:

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Click "Finish" to complete the product activation.