The Practice Dongle
For those of you who have 4.0 software installed and want to run the software away from your acquisition center (maybe on a laptop at home to practice 4.0) you obviously need a practice dongle. This practice dongle will allow you to run the software in trial mode – meaning you can’t mill or can’t save cases. But you can download cases from www.cerecdoctors.com and practice them at home.
The regular dongle that allows you to mill costs $5,000 – yes you heard correctly. No reason to pay that extra fee, and I don't suggest you take your $5,000 dongle from your office and transfer it home. Makes no sense when there is a good chance that you may lose it and have to start over again.
Order a practice dongle from Patterson for $95 (Part # is 0449256). This practice dongle allows you to open any RST file from the 4.0 software, and allows you to run the software. You can’t mill or save cases, but it’s great for practicing and downloading cases from the website.
Happy CERECing.
I can understand not being able to mill, but not being able to save a design defeats the purpose of working with a laptop at home! What's the deal with that?
Yeah but then it would be a save dongle. There is a reason it's called the practice dongle. :). Use it to download cases from the site and play along at home.
