Bought a maker's license for my personal use. Installed fine on my home computer and my tablet, but I wanted to also install it on my work computer so I could play with my own files during my downtime.
As the makers page says (https://discover.solidworks.com/makers), it cannot be installed on the same hard drive. Now, to me, that reads that as long as it's installed on a different hard drive there shouldn't be any issues. I read the rest of the info, I checked the technical specs that are linked in that same paragraph, and there's nothing that says the two can't coexist on the same machine entirely; only that they can't be on the same hard drive.
SW2021 (which we use at work, so that's my work copy) is installed on my SSD, so I tried to install 3DEXPERIENCE SW on the secondary HDD. And it simply will not let me. It says "A Solidworks installation of the same version is already installed. Please uninstall Solidworks and retry."
So evidently, just installing it on a different hard drive is not sufficient and to me, the text should be updated to say they can't be installed on the same machine, period. Because as it is right now, this is not what the page or supplemental info says. Is Dassault operating under the assumption that people only have one hard drive on any given computer and are using the phrase interchangeably or what? Is there some criteria that WILL allow the two to be installed on separate hard drives? If so, what is that criteria?