SCFLicense: Extension Licensing on Sketchucation
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hey I have a question I am an interior design student and some time ago my Fred corner licence got removed . Is there anything I can do about it? Do I have to pay for it or is it stilll free
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@Mikulassladek said in SCFLicense: Extension Licensing on Sketchucation:
my Fred corner licence got removed .
What do you mean it got removed?
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@Mikulassladek said in SCFLicense: Extension Licensing on Sketchucation:
Do I have to pay for it or is it stilll free
FWIW, FredoCorner has required a paid license since 2021.
If you never purchased a license for it the license couldn't have been removed.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all, thank you for creating the amazing Fredo6 tools! Personally, I consider these tools indispensable in SketchUp.
I am writing this message from my personal SketchUcation account. I have been working with your plug-ins for many years and I teach at Cibap vocational school for design in the Netherlands. I also regularly recommend your plug-ins to my students.
Recently, our school purchased the plug-ins for the computer lab where I teach (8 plug-ins for activation on 30 devices). However, we are currently encountering an issue that our ICT department has not been able to resolve.
When we activate the plug-ins under the admin account, they work correctly and appear to be activated. However, when students log in to the school computer using their own user accounts, the plug-ins are not activated for them.
How can we solve this issue? The plug-ins are intended for 30 devices, not for 30 users.
I hope you might be able to help us find a solution. I have prepared a great SketchUp lesson for our students that makes use of your plug-ins, so we would love to get this working.
I look forward to hearing from you. If it is necessary to get in touch personally, I would be happy to provide my contact details.
Kind regards,
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Several questions...
Does each of your students have a full copy of the the extension installed on their computer in their user's SketchUp Plugins folder ?
Also do they have a copy of the LibFredo6 installed on their computer in their user's SketchUp Plugins folder ? It's needed to support the extension.
And do they have a copy of the SketchUcation toolset installed on their computer in their user's SketchUp Plugins folder ? That's needed for the licensing.
Do they have a copy of the relevant license file saved onto their computer, and also has it been validated for that user and that device ?@fredo6 will probably reply in more detail about the multi-seat licensing setup.
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Hello TIG,
Thank you for your response. To clarify, this concerns the computers in my classroom. The plug-ins are installed on these computers and can be used in trial mode by all users who log in. FredoLib6 is also installed on these computers. I was planning to check the SketchUcation toolset this coming Friday, but I believe it is already installed as well, because when I activate the plug-ins under the admin account everything works fine.
I think the issue is related to the last point you described. When I activate the plug-ins under the admin account, they work and are activated. However, when a student logs in, a new user profile is created and under that user the plug-ins are not activated.
The solution for us would be that the plug-ins are automatically activated for all users who log in afterward. You want to avoid every student having to activate the plug-ins again each time they log in (if they even have the permissions to do so). However, we have not been able to figure out how to make this work.
Ramon
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Perhaps @fredo6 would like to comment...
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I understad that users have access to my plugins when they start Sketchup.
If so, then the problem is with the licenses.
License files are supposed to be located in the localappdata directory, which depends on the login account.
So, if the students log with their own account, I guess the license files are not found since they are in the localappdata of the admin account.
Currently, the localappdata directory is hardcoded in SCFLicense. So, it would require a modification to enable a custom directory.
Are you on Mac or on Windows?
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Following on from @fredo6 's comment...
If each user logs in separately then surely a simple cmd script [written by your IT guys] auto-running at their login, could copy the needed license files over into their '../appdata/local/scf licenses' directory. Having this consistent location set up for everyone's folders/files should ease the license reading / validation ? Perhaps a logout cmd script could also run to tidy up and remove the no longer needed files, if thought appropriate ? ... -
I think this is exactly the problem indeed. It would be fantastic if this could be adjusted. We work in the computer lab on Windows 11.
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One of the ICT staff members has tried this, but so far it has not been successful.
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Step by step questions...
Can your IT guy get a cmd script to run at user's login ?
Can your IT guy then make that cmd script copy the license files from an admin-account's folder-structure into an equivalent folder in the user's account - e.g. '../appdata/local/scf licenses' ?
If this happens why can't the user then see the expected license files ?
I'm no cmd script guru. but surely your IT guys have some helpful ideas ??e.g. If you manually copy over the license files from an admin-account's folder-structure into an equivalent folder in the user's account - e.g. '../appdata/local/scf licenses' - does that then work as expected ? If not, then why not ?
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