Hi all,

I’m looking at transferring a licence of max 2009 or in effect freeing up a licence. I’ve moved on to 2011/2012 but on occasions in the past I’ve had to revert to an earlier version due to a clients data.

I don’t necessarily want to tie the licence to a pc which is what the PLU wants to do. I would prefer to be able to free the licence so that anyone could install and pick up that licence if required.

The later online version can do this by making the key public(with correct serial) but is it possible to do the same with the older version PLU?

Cheers,

EL-d

Not to hijack your post, were also struggling with the insane licensing options for 3ds max, our situation is different but similar to yours ..
a virtual win 7 machine with 3ds max 2011 installed.Want to push the VM to another hardware ( hey whats new), license does not like being moved even if i spoof the MAC address .I got a 404 on just trying to signup to autodesk account, they don’t have their ‘own’ forums ( anther set of login details) .. Not the best experience from the off.
We’re reduced to running trials and blowing away VM’s ... not ideal, but then i had read of others running dodgy licenses just to get the licensing to co-operate EVEN though they have a fully paid up licence ...thats NOT for us....
HELP !

transferring 2010/2011 was painless.... but I don’t want to clutter my pc up with 4-5 installs of max unless I really need to.

2010/11 system stores that licence online which is ideal but earlier versions don’t sem to allow deactivation/ transfer to null pc.
El-d

Did you upgrade or PURCHASE A NEW “SEAT?” If you upgraded you don’t have a valid 2009 license anymore...AFAIK. Steve will correct me if I am wrong...and hopefully delete my miss-information...lol

3ds Max 9 thru 2013
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit OS SP1
Dual Intel® Xeon® 6 core X5650 @ 2.67GHz CPU 36GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
450GB HDD (x3) and 2TB HDD

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