When using shared licensing, although a single license is shared between multiple applications, only one application can actively use the license at a time. Therefore, with just a single license, you can have both Ansys Fluent and Ansys CFD-Post open at the same time. If iterations are being performed in the Fluent session, you cannot do anything in the Ansys CFD-Post session. However, if the Fluent session is open and idle, you can work in Ansys CFD-Post without closing Fluent. Similarly, you can have multiple sessions of Fluent open at the same time using just a single license.

If you open an application, it will first check to see if it can use a license that is already checked out. If it can, and that license is available, it will use that license. If the license is not available because it is being used by another application, you will be informed that the required license is not available. You will not be able to use the new application until that license becomes available. If there is not a license checked out that is compatible with the new application, the new application will check out an additional license.

In shared mode, you can have multiple licenses of each type of non-shareable licenses checked out at a time. For example, you can have 1 acfd license and 1 acfd prepost license checked out at the same time but you cannot have 2 acfd licenses checked out at the same time.

In shared mode, you can have multiple licenses of each type of non-shareable licenses checked out at a time. Non-shareable licenses include solver-only licenses and parallel licenses.

For more information about licensing and shared license mode, see the Workbench online documentation.