Academic Licenses

Academic Licenses

There are two types of academic licenses: TEACHING and RESEARCH.  The SIMULIA academic suites are:
  1. SIMULIA Academic Research Suite – Commercial-level functionality for advanced research
  2. SIMULIA Academic Teaching Suite – Feature-rich educational licenses for classrooms and computer labs

The SIMULIA Established products Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, and fe-safe all support both academic license types. Each of these programs use a parameter to control which license type is requested from the license server. An academic license permits use of an academic product solely for educational or public research purposes by a customer that has been identified as an academic institution or student.

 The compatibility between Abaqus/CAE files created using academic and commercial licenses:

  1. Abaqus/CAE model databases created using a teaching license can be opened using a research license and vice versa.
  2. Abaqus/CAE model databases created using a teaching or research license can be opened using a commercial license and vice versa.

Note:
  1. This article discusses TEACHING and RESEARCH licenses. Databases created under these licenses are compatible with commercially licensed Abaqus/CAE.
  2. The Abaqus Student Edition is very different (renamed Abaqus Learning Edition beginning with Abaqus 2022). Student Edition/Learning Edition (LE0) is an (essentially) free, unlicensed product and databases are not compatible with licensed instances.

To set up either of these licenses browse to C:\SIMULIA\EstProducts\202x\win_b64\SMA\site\EstablishedProductsConfig.ini and open it with a text editor.

Add ACADEMIC_TYPE=teaching (or research) after your licensing information (line 17):


Save the file.


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