Learning Forum

[Tim Dukes]

With the floating licenses is it possible for one user to have multiple instances of SpaceClaim open but it not take up multiple licenses?

[Rajeshwari Jadhav]

Hi Tim,

No it's not possible to open multiple instance of spaceclaim with a single license, you can launch it in read-only mode.

[Marc]

We can open multiple instances of Spaceclaim on the local machine without issue. Is the limitation if you are using floating licenses?

[Rajeshwari Jadhav]

Hi Marc,

What do you mean by local machine over here? at a time only one instance of spaceclaim can be launched.

[Tim Dukes]

I think he may be talking about 'Named user' licenses. With these a user can open multiple instances of SpaceClaim on one machine. With the floating license opening another instance of the software consumes another license so one person could un-intentionally comsume multiple licenses. I think it is possible with flex lm to create rules to stop this happening but don't think the Ansys licenses allow this.