Licenses

Designer licenses are available through Disguise Cloud, available for free through the dashboard. The Designer license can be stored on your dongle.

Sign up for your free license here.

The physical dongle is USB based and can be used to host other supported licenses such as Notch as well as Designer.

The software based option is tied to your physical machine, and currently cannot be moved between machines. The software based option is ideal for customers who do not often switch machines and are happy to have less portability.

Warning

Notch blocks cannot currently be pre-visualised using the software based license. This is due to Notch licensing limitation.

	USB Dongle	Software-based
Portability	Yes	No
Notch pre-visualisation	Yes	No
License activates immediately	No	Yes
Time block licences	Yes	No
Run Designer without a dongle	No	Yes

Dongle-based licences

Obtaining a licence

Dongle-based licences come in two parts:

1. The first part being a physical Codemeter dongle which can either be purchased from Disguise, or users can use another Codemeter dongle. For example, the Notch dongle can also host a Designer licence.
2. The second part is the licence itself, which, after purchase from the Disguise web store, will be emailed to you in the form of a link.

Once you have the two items, you can proceed to activate your licence.

Activating a licence

1. Ensure you have the latest version of Designer downloaded and installed on your machine.
2. Ensure your USB dongle is plugged in.
3. Using google chrome, go to the web depot.
4. Enter your ticket ID which was defined in the email confirmation you received from the Disguise web store. The ticket ID format will be XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
5. Click Retrieve.
6. On the following page click Activate Licenses.

Your Designer license is now on the USB dongle and will begin counting down usage time when Designer is launched for the first time.

Launching Designer

Once your license is installed, you can proceed to launch or create a project to load Designer.

Viewing your licence information

License information is available in d3manager.

Help > d3 licenses.

Software-based licences

Obtaining a licence

Software-based licenses (dongle-less) do not require a physical USB dongle and can be activated on a PC as soon as your web order is completed.

Once you have your activation code, you can proceed to activate your license

Activating a licence

1. Ensure you have the latest version of Designer downloaded and installed on your machine.
2. Using google chrome, go to the web depot
3. Enter your ticket ID which was defined in the email confirmation you received from the Disguise web store. the ticket ID format will be XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
4. Click Retrieve.
5. On the following page click Activate Licenses.

Your Designer license is now on your local machine and will begin counting down usage time when Designer is launched for the first time.

Launching Designer

Once your license is installed, you can proceed to launch or create a project to load Designer.

Viewing your licence information

License information is available in d3manager Help > d3 licenses.