Batchworks requiring my solidworks serial number!!??

I have downloaded batchworks and it really is a great time saver. The
download is "free" and you get a 30 day evaluation until you give your
solidworks serial number!
This seems a bit strange to myself, after all, the idea of a serial number
is for security. Why can't the program just work?

Maybe I'm being paranoid!!
Now where's that bug sniffer gone?

You can't fix stupid!

 

I don't know batchworks, but I assume it uses a similar method as for
example EcoPrint to protect it from being used without eventually
obtaining a registered license.
If you don't tie the demo license to some individual string or number
the application can verify, nothing prevents the user from simply
obtaining a new demo license whenever it expired - hence the request
for it.

I can't speak for batchworks (whatever it is) but I guarantee that any
of the products at www.ecocom.com do not contain any spy software.

To us software developers your SolidWorks serial is completely useless
- unless we'd ask for the registration code


Thilo Trautwein

 

Batchworks is free, even the registered licence is free, so I see no need
for the request for my serial number. Is EcoPrint free?

 

If Batchworks is free then I don't see any reason for requesting the
SolidWorks serial either. EcoPrint is only free to evaluate - the full
version costs a few bucks.