Please tell me I'm missing something positive...

I don't see any mention of network licensing - is it still as broken as it was on release with v2015 ?!

And it seems it's even more restricted in v2016 - this from our licence e-mail, confirming same as earlier poster:

Single user licence - once your 2016 licence is authorised, your 2015 licence will not be able to be installed on any new computers (but will continue to run as an existing installation).
Network licence - Authorising your new 2016 licence on a single machine starts a 60 day countdown, after which 2015 will be disabled on all machines. If you wish to test version 2016, it is highly recommended you use the trial version to do so.
We cannot reactivate a 2015 licence once it becomes inactive after the 60 day period.

Seriously?!

I've just found out about SU2015 network licensing today.

What a spectacular fail.

• Key+code in clear text
• internet must be working and Trimble servers must be working or you can't even open SU2015, no grace period
• users can hog a licence invisibly using Check Out
• if a user forgets to check the licence back in ...
• and if users hot-desk ...
• utter nightmare
• we have an office of 50 architects with 10 network licences. SU2015 will be completely unusable

And although licences are meant to be perpetual, looks like after your subscription expires you can't (re-)activate the product, eg if your computer dies. Also seems to be a fairly major issue with even standalone network licence activations being tied to a specific network adapter being active.

Of all my fears for SketchUp when Trimble bought it, such small-minded kitchen-table-software anti-corporate unprofessionalism was not among them.

Regards
W