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[Reno Genest]

Hello Teng,

I checked in our system and the University of Cincinnati account you are associated with only has LSTC LS-DYNA (500 cores) which requires the LSTC license manager.

So, to run LS-DYNA from your machine, you have to point to the LSTC license server by setting the  following 2 environment variables on your Windows machine:

LSTC_LICENSE=network

LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER=hostname_or_ip_address_of_LSTC_license server

If you don't know how to set environment variables in Windows, please Google "how to set environment variables in Windows".

 

To run LS-DYNA, we recommend using LS-RUN. LS-RUN comes with the Ansys installation. If you don't have Ansys installed, you can download LS-RUN here:

https://ftp.lstc.com/anonymous/outgoing/lsprepost/LS-Run/win64/

Here is a video tutorial on how to use LS-RUN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkTJCefm30

Note that you can set the license information in LS-RUN and LS-RUN will set the environment variables automatically for you (as long as the Env Var check box is checked):

 

Put the LSTC license server hostname of IP address in the Server hostname field in LS-RUN (see image above).

 

Let me know how it goes.

 

Reno.