
There are other CAD packages that are less expensive and might suit your needs, but if you have to have Pro/E (Creo) and only need 1 license, you're probably pretty much stuck paying current list price for your region to be legal. That process involves working with PTC tolegaly transfer the ownership of the license(s).If anyone offers to sell you a commercial license of Pro/E cheap or a PC with it pre-loaded and they're not a reseller and charging you for the license in addition to the hardware, you're probably breaking the law.

PTC has strict rules about how a license is legally obtainedand last I knew forbids any sort of change in ownership of licenses outside of corporate mergers orbuyouts. A maintenance contract will allow you to run newer releases as they come out by getting a revised license file for your license server (tied to a MAC address or addresses).

You then own the right to run whatever modules you purchased at the current release and typically older releases if you choose.

Basically what it boils down to is if you want to use Pro/E (Creo) on a commercial basis you have to buy a commercial license of the current software version. In the Simple License Entry product code field, enter the product code BE400407EDSTUDENTEDK12 and then click Install Licensing.
