{"id":290044,"date":"2023-06-23T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/290044\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:57:12","slug":"290044","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/290044\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Ansys Workbench, Connection timed out while reading data."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi Mehrdad,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Close all the Ansys applications before trying the below suggestion step by step. Can you please try adding the below timeout features in the ansyslmd.ini file &ndash;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Go to C:\\Program Files\\ANSYS Inc\\Shared Files\\Licensing directory, copy the ansyslmd.ini file to the desktop location.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Open the ansyslmd.ini file using Notepad and add the following lines &ndash;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;ANSYSLI_FNP_IP_ENV=1&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;ANSYSLI_TIMEOUT_FLEXLM=20&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;ANSYSLI_FLEXLM_TIMEOUT_ENV=20000000&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;ANSYSCL_TIMEOUT_CONNECT=60&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;ANSYSCL_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE=300&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Once you add the lines, click Save As &gt; ensure that the save as file type is &lsquo;all files&rsquo;.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Once the file is saved, please replace the old ansyslmd.ini file using the newly created one.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Also set the following Environment Variable &ndash;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Go to START &gt; &lsquo;Edit the System Environment Variables&rsquo; &gt; click Environment Variables.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Under the System Variables, please click NEW and create a new variable.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Variable Name &ndash; FLEXLM_TIMEOUT&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Variable Value &ndash; 50000000&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Save it.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&#8221;direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;&#8221; type=&#8221;disc&#8221;&gt;&lt;li style=&#8221;margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Config File Reset &#8211; &lt;\/span&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Now open a file explorer and type %appdata% in the address bar.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Locate the Ansys folder and rename it to Ansys.old.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;&#8221;&gt;Now try launching the Workbench application to see if it loads without any issues.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-290044","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi Mehrdad,Close all the Ansys applications before trying the below suggestion step by step. 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