{"id":388570,"date":"2024-10-08T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/optislang-motorcad-hpc-integration\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:30:21","slug":"optislang-motorcad-hpc-integration","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/optislang-motorcad-hpc-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Optislang MotorCAD HPC integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;d like to run OptiSLang with multiple instances of MotorCAD at the same time. I&#8217;ve noticed that there is a tutorial on blackbox usage which hasn&#8217;t worked for me. Here are a few questions:&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is blackbox lincensing compulsory to run Optislang with parallel instances of MotorCAD? It used to work just fine with ActiveX<\/li>\n<li>If so, does the environmental variable need to be reset every time you need to use MotorCAD in GUI mode?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Does the university have a BlackBox license? &#8220;motorcad_blackbox&#8221; is not listed in my ANSYS License manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;ve tried following the instructions but what I&#8217;ve found is that OptiSLang fails and the MotorCAD Defaults file resets the Requested_Licenses=motorcad_blackbox to a blank and stops working&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-388570","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-motor-cad-1","topic-tag-black-box","topic-tag-hpc","topic-tag-optimisation-2","topic-tag-optislang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["453139","249428"],"_bbp_author_ip":["86.20.76.132"],"_btv_view_count":["347"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["388570"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27793"],"_bbp_engagement":["249428","453139"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["390198"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["390198"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-10-17 09:30:22"]},"test":"nkb221newcastle-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/388570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/388570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}