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Description

There are times when you may need to activate a Software Mastercam license using the activation wizard, or install an evaluation license.

For example, if you previously had Mastercam installed and it is using an old expired Hasp license, but you would like to update it or change the license to a Software [Evaluation] License.

Info

If you are When opening Mastercam for the first time after installation, a popup will usually occur asking if you would like to activate a license. If you click Clicking ‘Yes’ on the popup, it will bring you to the Activation Wizard.

How To

Activation Wizard

If you already have Mastercam installed you should have the activation wizard utility which you can bring up should already be installed, which is accessible by typing in Activation Wizard into the windows search bar.

The activation wizard can also be downloaded at this link, it is listed under Utilities > Mastercam Activation Wizard Setup.

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Once you click it you can Click on the Activation wizard and follow the onscreen instructions to activate the license with the information provided to you (License and Activation code).

You can To check if the Mastercam license has been updated by going go into Mastercam and clicking click
File > Help. You can verify


Verify the license by checking the product information.

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How to Make Sure Mastercam Detects Software license

Command-lines (page

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22 of the MC-2020-Administrator-Guide)

If your Mastercam launcher picks up a Software license instead of a Network (NHASP) or a HASP license and you want to change that, you can use command-lines. With command-lines you can do the following:

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Other example: To command Mastercam to look for a NHASP license first, add a “ /N” at the end of the Target line.

Server IP address on the client computer (page 6 of the mastercam2023-software-licensing-guide)

If your Mastercam launcher does not detect a software license seat available on a Network software license, make sure license server IP address is added to CodeMeter WebAdmin interface.

Additional information

Mastercam 2023 Software licensing Guide

View file
namemastercam2023-software-licensing-guide.pdf

Activating a Mastercam Evaluation License on a Server

View file
nameRunning Eval on Server.docx

Mastercam 2023 Administrator Guide

This document is the official Mastercam 2023 guide on licensing and other administrative information. It contains a lot of useful information such as installing a NetHasp, License monitoring, etc.

View file
namemastercam2023-administrator-guide.pdf

Mastercam 2020 Administrator Guide

This document is the official Mastercam 2020 guide on licensing and other administrative information. It contains a lot of useful information such as installing a NetHasp, License monitoring, etc.

View file
nameMC-2020-Administrator-Guide.pd.pdf