The original post: /r/piracy by /u/Forsaken_Walrus_6464 on 2025-01-07 13:44:55.

I dont know if I phrased the title correctly so I will explain in detail here:

Yesterday I downloaded NX cad software from getintopc and it works fine. Today I downloaded Inventor from the same website and its installation was a bit tricky as LMTOOLS by Flexera is used (I’m assuming it has to do with the services that run on windows in the background) and I had to direct the server/service (I don’t know what is the right word in this context) to refer to a license file (it was .dat type). Eventually I was able to run inventor.

I then tried opening NX but it threw a licensing error as in it might not be referring to right server/host or whatever. So I saw the installation guide to NX again and one step was where I run a certain exe file. Once I do that, NX runs again so I look into LMTOOLS again found that once I run that exe file which is for NX, the server/service refers to NX license and so I cant open Inventor.

So what I understood is same server/service is used for running both cad softwares but it has to refer to two different licences hence I cant run both of them at the same time.

So is there a way to solve this. Its fine if there isn’t any way, since I just want to learn the software. Plus, I already have modded solidworks which I downloaded long before and it has its own server/service.