Quote Originally Posted by Matt Gonitzke View Post
This contradicts my experience. I had temporarily moved my desktop to another room in my house to connect it up to a TV to do a 'design review' of sorts with some people, and it wasn't connected to the internet. When I opened SW, the splashscreen never went away, and it said "verifying license...." and was stuck there until I got creative and figured out how to get a LAN cable to that room. As soon as the internet was connected, it loaded.

Have either of you that claim I'm wrong actually tried this?
I have activated one computer via email, but most of my installations have had an active internet connection. Here is everything you need to know about SW Activation:
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support...des_activation

Question #11 addresses the issue of having an active internet connection when using the software. The answer is no, it is not required.