Having the Student Edition and the Commercial Edition concurrently?

- March 11, 2020 at 11:22 am
  
  RamonFHerrera
  Subscriber
  
  Having the Student Edition and the Commercial Edition concurrently in the same PC. Is this doable? Advised? Best practice?
  
  -Ramon F. Herrera
  JFK Numbers
  ramon@jfknumbers.org
- March 11, 2020 at 1:34 pm
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  Given the Student version is to learn on, and not for commercial use why would you have both versions? Definitely not advised, both from a licence terms and practicality point of view: the licence managers don't play well.
  
  How did you get on contacting us re the software?
- March 11, 2020 at 1:52 pm
  
  RamonFHerrera
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks for your kind assistance. With your reply my suspicions are confirmed. In my job I do a lot of software testing and have several concurrent version. With the Autodesk applications this is not a problem.
  
  I have a unique problem to solve, it is detailed here:
  
  Can't find my cranium!!
  
  At this point, I am trying to decide whether my project can be processed by the Student Edition or needs more "horsepower".
  
  How did you get on contacting us re the software?
  
  Google is your friend (and mine). The support in ANSYS other forums is a disgrace. This is the only one where I get replies.
  
  Thanks again,
  
  -Ramon F. Herrera
  JFK Numbers
  ramon@jfknumbers.org
- March 11, 2020 at 3:09 pm
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  If you're doing a research project you may want to review the Academic licencing: we distinguish between commercial & research. I also need to point out that Student is for learning, not for PhD project work: read the licence agreement you clicked (probably without reading!).
  
  Similarly, Student & Commercial/Academic aren't different versions: they're different licences. I have about 6 versions of Fluent and 4 full Ansys installs.
  
  As an aside, which Ansys forum are you referring to? You've just got 2 threads on here that I can see.
- March 11, 2020 at 3:21 pm
  
  RamonFHerrera
  Subscriber
  
  As an aside, which Ansys forum are you referring to?
  
  To these:
  
  ANSYS Forum
  
  CFD Online
  
  FE Assistant
  
  Plus one in Reddit, Engineering Forums, etc.
  
  I tried several and only here I got a reply (thanks!)
  
  Yes, I am aware that those forums are not owned by your employer.
  
  -Ramon
  JFK Numbers
  ramon@jfknumbers.org
  
  ps: What I am doing is personal research. I have a 1-person Not-for-Profit entity. I intend to perform Cranial Ballistics simulations in order to determine the details of the fatal shot to president Kennedy on November 22, 1963. This needs a high resolution cranium model but the free student edition that I have is limited in the number of "cells".