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  3. Some customers may still maintain legacy ANSYS Mechanical Emag product, haven’t migrated to current ANSYS Mechanical Maxwell yet. When choose “ANSYS Mechanical / Emag” in WB Mechanical 2021 R1 > File > Solve Process Settings for a remote solve option, it could not put proper license feature of ane3 in SetInput.txt MAPDL command line -p argument, i.e. the -p argument is empty: -b nolist -s noread -p -i remote.dat -o solve.out Then in ansys211 command line the -p is empty as well: Running Solver : /apps/ansys_inc/v211/ansys/bin/ansys211 -b nolist -s noread -p -i remote.dat -o solve.out -dis -machines node1:2 -dir “/working/xxxxxx” -usessh It tries to check out a current ANSYS license and fails if not available

Some customers may still maintain legacy ANSYS Mechanical Emag product, haven’t migrated to current ANSYS Mechanical Maxwell yet. When choose “ANSYS Mechanical / Emag” in WB Mechanical 2021 R1 > File > Solve Process Settings for a remote solve option, it could not put proper license feature of ane3 in SetInput.txt MAPDL command line -p argument, i.e. the -p argument is empty: -b nolist -s noread -p -i remote.dat -o solve.out Then in ansys211 command line the -p is empty as well: Running Solver : /apps/ansys_inc/v211/ansys/bin/ansys211 -b nolist -s noread -p -i remote.dat -o solve.out -dis -machines node1:2 -dir “/working/xxxxxx” -usessh It tries to check out a current ANSYS license and fails if not available

Tagged: 2021 R1, Installation/Licensing/Systems, licensing, Mechanical - SYS, Other
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:00 am
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      If migrating to current ANSYS licenses is not an immediate option, add ane3 (without -p) in WB Mechanical 2021 R1 > File > Solve Process Settings > Advanced > Additional Command Line Arguments for the remote solve option.

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