5.4. Setting the Primary and Alternate Licenses for Discovery

Options under Settings > Licensing 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 5.2: Discovery Capability Levels and Licensing Requirements.

Table 5.3: Primary Discovery License and Alternate License

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

  • Discovery Enterprise: provides access to all geometry modeling and simulation capabilities (disco_level1 + disco_level2 + disco_level3)

  • Discovery Premium: provides access to advanced modeling capabilities, plus additional structural, thermal, and fluids simulation capabilities (disco_level1 + disco_level2)

  • Discovery Pro: provides access to most geometry modeling capabilities, plus support for entry level structural physics (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 5.2: Discovery Capability Levels and Licensing Requirements):

  • None

  • Ansys CFD PrepPost

  • Ansys Electronics

  • Ansys Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost

  • Ansys Mechanical Enterprise

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


Note:

  • When Discovery is running in Named User Web 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 5.4: Command Line Options for Overriding the License Preferences

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

  • disco_level1

  • cfd_preppost

  • elec_solve_level3

  • preppost

  • ansys


For example: Discovery.exe -p elec_solve_level3