[john70t]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I received SW 2006 from a settlement and went on to purchase the SW 2007 upgrade which was supposed to be substantially more powerful than the previous version. The upgrade was about $1500 iirc.

About that time I had filed a patent on an electric motor and modelling it would have been significantly less expensive than trying to create small and large prototypes for different types of applications all from scratch. CAD can be a lot of fun. I'd already made a few model with Sketchup which was simple to use, but learning SW was too large of a step up despite taking worthless classes. There seemed to be constant error bugs in the ver. 2006 at least which I wasn't able to get around. The patent office had found existing artwork and I ended up dropping the whole thing in disgust.

Recently I found the 2007 program again on a newer offline Win10 computer.
"Oh great let's try it out again" I thought.
It was a pricey purchase and I want to use it...

The program opened fine, but when "create a new model" an error states there is no subscription associated with the program.
(There was no subscription necessary before at the time of purchase.)

The program is paid for, registered, and my license valid to infinity.