5.4. Setting the Primary and Alternate Licenses for Discovery

Options under Settings > Advanced enable you to set your preferences for the primary Discovery license and an Alternate license for flagship products.

Specifying an Alternate license allows for a different license to be used in case the primary Discovery license is unavailable. The Alternate license provides the same functionality described for disco_level1 in Table 5.3: Discovery License Levels.

Table 5.4: Primary Discovery License and Alternate License

License SettingDescription
Discovery licenseSpecifies the license with which you run Discovery:

  • Ansys Discovery Simulation: provides capabilities for modeling and physics (disco_level2)

  • Ansys Discovery Modeling: provides capabilities for modeling only (disco_level1)

Alternate licenseSpecifies a flagship license to use if the primary Discovery license is unavailable (in all cases except None, provides the same functionality described for disco_level1 in Table 5.3: Discovery License Levels):

  • None

  • Ansys BladeBuilder

  • Ansys CFD PrepPost

  • Ansys Electronics

  • Ansys EMC Plus and Charge Plus

  • Ansys Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost

  • Ansys Mechanical Enterprise

Check for Discovery Modeling license prior to alternate licenseSpecifies whether you want to check for a Discovery Modeling license before checking for an alternate license. This option is applicable only when Discovery license is set to Ansys Discovery Modeling, and an Alternate license preference is specified.


Note:

  • When Discovery is running in subscription mode, it ignores the Alternate license.

  • If both your primary Discovery license and your Alternate license are unavailable but another compatible flagship license is available, a message dialog appears to let you select the other license. The message dialog contains these options:

    • OK: Start Discovery in Level 1 mode using the selected license.

    • Cancel: Start Discovery in read-only mode.

    • Set as the alternative license preference: Enable to set the selected license as your Alternate license preference going forward.

 

5.4.1. Overriding the Discovery License Preferences at Startup

You can use the -p command line option to override the primary Discovery license and Alternate license preferences and specify a different license on application startup.

Table 5.5: Command Line Options for Overriding the License Preferences

To run this application...Use one of these command line options...
Discovery

  • disco_level1

  • cfd_bladebuilder

  • cfd_preppost

  • elec_solve_level3

  • ema_gui

  • preppost

  • ansys


For example: Discovery.exe -p elec_solve_level3