Additional Notes About 3ds max® 7

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Installing, registering and activating 3ds max 7

·     3ds max 7 displays the Register Today wizard upon startup. Choose “Activate the product” and the wizard guides you through the brief registration and activation process. If you choose Run the Product, you will have 30 days to enter a valid activation code before the software disables itself on that machine.

·      Before a user with Restricted Privileges can run 3ds max 7 under the Windows® operating system, an Administrator must start the program at least once. This generates registry information, which completes the install.

·      When you uninstall 3ds max 7, your configuration files will remain in the \3dsmax7 folder. These include your custom UI and plugin.ini file, which can contain 3^rd-party plugin authorization information. You can reinstall 3ds max 7 to this folder at a later date, and your settings will persist. If you do not want your settings to persist, install into a different folder.

·      After installing backburner to a new folder using the stand alone installer, the old backburner 2 folder will not be removed. The folder can be safely removed manually.

·      The Repair feature only supports files that have internal file versioning that it can use to track the files. There are certain file types and partner programs in 3ds max 7 that do not provide this information. If the Repair function does not successfully resolve the issues you are experiencing, try uninstalling and then re-installing the feature or partner program.

·      Parking the license on another system in order to rebuild the main system will not work as described in the Installation Guide.  In order to successfully retain the license, you should do the following:

1.   Shut down 3ds max 7 and do not run it again until the end of this process. 

2.   Copy the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macrovision\SafeCast\Product Licenses folder to another system or to a floppy disk.  It is recommended that if you use a floppy disk, you make two copies.  If for any reason you need to run 3ds max 7 after this point, you will need to restart the process from Step 1.

3.   Proceed with system rebuild.

4.   Once the rebuild has completed, reinstall 3ds max 7 and any needed updates. Note: Don’t run 3ds max after having installed.

5.   Restore the copy of the license folder to the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macrovision\SafeCast\Product Licenses\ folder. 

6.   Reboot the system.

You should now be able to run 3ds max 7 with no loss of license. If the license should break, try simply re-registering via the web connection. In many cases this will repair the license. 

 

 

 

Network License Versions

·      Network licensing enables 3ds max (v4.3 and later) software to obtain authorization from a network license server. Before activating the network license server, you must upgrade to or purchase the network-enabled version of 3ds max.

For license manager details, please refer to the Network Licensing Guide which is available by selecting the Documentation panel or the Network Deployment panel from the product installation menu (setup.exe in the root of your Product CD).

·      The 3ds max 7 installation program no longer creates a license file in the application root directory.  The installer has been improved to merge license server information directly into the registry. Should you still desire to manually direct 3ds max 7 to a different license server using the license file method, you can create a licpath.lic file using Notepad, containing the following two lines:

SERVER hostname hostid
USE_SERVER

where hostname and hostid are the machine name and physical address of the license server, respectively. This information can be obtained from your system administrator.

·      The license borrowing utility for 3ds max 7 is found only in the Help menu. Documentation states that it is available from the Tools pull down and command line.