Altium Designer provides a streamlined licensing system, enabling you to get licensed and up-and-running with your Altium Designer software in a timely and efficient manner. The system offers various licensing types to meet, and suit, your licensing needs. This includes web-based, on-demand licensing. Tightly integrated with customer accounts through the Altium portal, web-based on-demand license management allows a license to be used on any computer without the need to move license files or activate on each machine. This provides a global floating license capability – within the geographic scope of your license and the conditions set out in the EULA – without needing to implement your own server.
Use the following links to go straight to detailed information for your specific license type: On-Demand License, Standalone License, Private Server License.
The Altium Designer licensing system features three distinct license types:
This license type provides the greatest degree of flexibility for users who plan to work from multiple machines with an active internet connection.
This license type is ideal for a single workstation and solo designer, and requires no active internet connection.
This license type is ideal for those who want the flexibility of accessing their licenses from multiple machines, but are not able to connect to the Altium On-Demand license server. The Altium Infrastructure Server (AIS) and its PLS offer the flexibility required by companies that host multiple Altium software installations, with the bonus that the license and seat usage can be configured, monitored and controlled from a centralized server – which in turn is hosted on a local LAN/WAN that may be isolated from the internet.
Access continues to be available to the legacy PLS software, whose setup and use is often preferable for smaller organizations. One thing to note is that server redundancy is not yet supported with the Altium Infrastructure Server. Please use the legacy Private License Server software if this functionality is required. More details on the legacy private license server can be found in the legacy/frozen documentation here: https://techdocs.altium.com/display/ADOH/Using+a+Private+Server+License.
License configuration and selection is performed from the License Management view, accessed by clicking on the control at the top-right of the workspace and choosing the License Management command from the menu. This is 'command central' for obtaining a license. Sign-in to your Altium account and view and select On-Demand licenses available to you. Add a Standalone license file. Or, connect to your Private License Server and use a seat from any of the associated Private Server licenses made available to you by your network administrator.
Whether using an On-Demand license, Standalone license, or Private Server license, the Available Licenses region of the page will automatically present the specific licenses available to you. Choose the license that you want to use and then click on the applicable command, depending on how you want to use that license.
All purchased licenses associated to your account, and that are allocated to you for use, will be presented here. This includes Altium Designer licenses, and any licensing associated with certain paid/licensed extension-delivered functionality.
Accessing the License Management view.
Accessing the License Management view.
The Altium Dashboard is a dedicated area that allows administrators of an organization's Altium account to manage the users, licenses and other assets associated to that account, as well as defining the organization's profile – which can be made public, for viewing by other organizations and their users, within the AltiumLive community.
Account management of any type should never feel burdensome. With the Dashboard, being able to manage all aspects of an organization's account is both intuitive and expedient, and all from the one convenient location. The Dashboard will even notify of pending items requiring action, such as renewing that subscription that is about to expire - and enable renewal to be conducted right there-and-then, online and hassle free, allowing the organization to remain licensed with continuous subscription and access to all the benefits that entails.
Access to the Dashboard can be made in the following ways:
To access the Dashboard, and any page within the AltiumLive community for that matter, you must be signed in to the AltiumLive community using your AltiumLive Account Credentials.
Use the Dashboard to manage your account with Altium including, most importantly, your product licensing.
Only those with administrative privileges (Group Administrators) will have full access to the Dashboard, and the ability to view and modify aspects of their organization's account. If you don't have such privileges, you will only be able to view the Dashboard's landing (Overview) page.