inventor 2018 your trial has ended

[Anonymous]

I downloaded the trial version of inventor 2018 from the woodwork site.  

https://www.woodworkforinventor.com/free-trial-download/download-trial/

On two different computers and three different accounts which I do not believe have use inventor before, I get an error saying "your trial has ended".  Is this potentially an issue with an out of date version of inventor?  I think I need to have inventor 2018 for the woodwork plugin to be used.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  

[Anonymous]

I think what you downloaded must be an addin for Inventor, not Inventor itself.

[Anonymous]

I'm fairly certain it installed inventor.  The full text reads.  

Your trial has ended

Subscribe for a month, a year, or for however long you need it. Inventor is great on its own, priced from just $240.00/month—but it's even better as part of an industry collection.

[leowarren34]

It might be where you've downloaded it from, it's likely some metadata that alot of companies use to stop you from using different accounts on the same machine, however I am still perplexed how this is happening across two machines

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the Autodesk User's Community..

Are you seeing something like this https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/0-days... after launched it right after installing your product?

[WHolzwarth]

I'm not experienced with license issues, but I think, the license check is looking for the SN and it's first activation date.

[leowarren34]

I found a whileback I had a similar issue with sketchbook, 

original post here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/solution-to-programs-not-launching-on-student-...

But essentially what i did was rename a folder and solved it. Some issues are really that simple

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Ah HA!  It seems all I had to do was choose the activate with a serial number option, rather than attempting to sign in with my account.  then I chose "run" instead of activate.  Success!