Licensing process

The TwinCAT 3 licensing process is described below.

Licensing process 1:

Creating License Request Files:

  1. Compilation of the desired licenses in the TwinCAT 3 license manager
  2. Selecting the TwinCAT 3 license dongle or Beckhoff IPC to be licensed
  3. Entering the TwinCAT LicenseTANs or the order number (license ID) under which the licenses were ordered
  4. Generating a License Request File
    (The TwinCAT platform level of the target hardware is automatically added)
  5. Sending a license request file by email to the Beckhoff license server (tclicense@beckhoff.com)

Importing and activating a License Response File:

  1. The Beckhoff license server checks whether the specified licenses are available in the specified order, signs the License Request File, thereby creating a License Response File, and returns this by email.
  2. Importing the License Response File in TwinCAT 3
    (When the TwinCAT 3 Runtime starts, TwinCAT checks the platform level and the system ID and switches the licenses to valid.)