Q100406: How to deactivate a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement

Isaac

Updated : August 20, 2024 07:59

Created : May 04, 2018 16:43

SUMMARY

This article details how to deactivate a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement from a machine.

MORE INFORMATION

Nuke Non-Commercial licensing allows you to deactivate your license from one machine and then activate it on another.  This gives you the flexibility to easily use your Nuke Non-Commercial license on different machines when or if you need to.

NOTE: The instructions below assume that you already have a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement and activated it on your machine. Information on how to get a Nuke Non-Commercial Entitlement and how to activate it is available in the following articles:

• Q100423: How to get a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement
• Q100405: How to activate a Nuke Non-Commercial entitlement

You can deactivate your Nuke Non-Commercial license directly from Nuke or through the Foundry website.

DEACTIVATING FROM THE PROGRAM

Please follow the steps below to deactivate your Nuke Non-Commercial license directly from Nuke.

1. Launch Nuke Non-Commercial and navigate to Help > License...
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2. ​​The Licensing Status box will then display the active licence installed on the machine, Click Manage Login Licenses:
   
   
3. Click on the Nuke Non-Commercial license (nukenc_i) and select Return on the bottom right of the window:
   
   
4. The window will update and confirm that the license has been returned. You can now exit Nuke Non-Commercial:
   
   
   
   

DEACTIVATING THROUGH THE WEBSITE

You can also deactivate the license from your activated machine through the Login Licenses page on our website by following the steps below.  This is useful if you need to use your license at home but forgot to log out of Nuke Non-Commercial on another machine.