About Tekla Model Sharing licenses
All new Tekla Structures subscriptions include licenses for Tekla Model Sharing.
Users who have one of these subscriptions do not need a separate license for Tekla Model Sharing:
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Tekla Structures Carbon - Named User
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Tekla Structures Graphite - Named User
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Tekla Structures Diamond - Named User
To give users access to Tekla Model Sharing, assign one of these subscriptions to the users.
To give users who are not employees of your company access to your Tekla Model Sharing licenses, add them as external license users. Do not add users who do not work directly for your company to your organization as employees.
Access rights for Tekla Model Sharing are based on the combination of the user identity and the Tekla Online organization to which the user belongs. Changing or removing the Tekla Online organization membership of an employee can change the user's access rights in Tekla Model Sharing. For more information, see the article Tekla Online organization membership and access rights in Tekla Model Sharing.
User licenses for Tekla Model Sharing
Only existing customers who do not have a Tekla Structures subscription that includes a license for Tekla Model Sharing can purchase user licenses for Tekla Model Sharing.
The following licenses for Tekla Model Sharing are user licenses:
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Tekla Model Sharing Worldwide
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Tekla Model Sharing Named User
If you have these user licenses for Tekla Model Sharing, you can continue to use them and renew them until they are no longer supported.
Each user must have their own Trimble Identity and Tekla Model Sharing license. You must assign a license to each user. You can only assign as many Tekla Model Sharing licenses as you have purchased.
User licenses for Tekla Model Sharing are delivered and managed in the Tekla Online Admin Tool. When the licenses have been delivered, the person who is the named contact for your company receives a license notification by email. As an administrator, you can use the Tekla Online Admin Tool to assign licenses to users.
Legacy floating licenses for Tekla Model Sharing
It is no longer possible to purchase new floating licenses for Tekla Model Sharing. If you have legacy floating licenses for Tekla Model Sharing, you can continue to use them and renew them until they are no longer supported.
For more information, see the End of life announcements page.
If you have legacy floating licenses for Tekla Model Sharing, you can give any number of users access to your organization's Tekla Model Sharing license pool. The number of licenses that you have determines the maximum number of concurrent users on a first-come-first-served basis.
How to estimate the number of floating licenses needed
Different people can use the same floating license at different times, but you must keep track of how many licenses are needed at peak usage. You can estimate the number of licenses needed by counting the number of users who are currently working on projects that use Tekla Model Sharing.
If you do not have enough licenses available for all users who try to access Tekla Model Sharing at the same time, some users see a message that all license seats are reserved.
You can view statistics about current and past Tekla Model Sharing license usage on the Statistics page.
How floating license seats are reserved and released
A license seat is reserved when a user launches a Tekla Model Sharing operation. If a user joins Tekla Model Sharing from several devices, the user reserves a separate Tekla Model Sharing license seat for each device. Users can work on a shared model offline without reserving a Tekla Model Sharing license seat.
Tekla Model Sharing licenses are automatically released when the user closes Tekla Structures, changes to working on a model that is not shared, or disconnects from the Tekla Model Sharing service.
If a user is an employee in a different organization and an external license user in your organization, Tekla Model Sharing reserves a license seat in your organization by default. If no licenses are available in your organization's license pool, Tekla Model Sharing reserves a license seat in the user's own organization.