5.5. Structural Physics Licensing

This section describes licensing schemes for structural physics.

5.5.1. Floating Licensing for Structural Physics

When the MAPDL solver is needed to perform a high fidelity structural solve in Discovery, one of the following licenses is required. Discovery looks for and checks out license keys in the following order:

  1. Mechanical Pro: mech_1

  2. Mechanical Premium: mech_2

  3. Mechanical Enterprise Solver: meba

  4. Mechanical Enterprise: ansys


Note:  For electric and electric thermal high fidelity solves only, a Discovery Enterprise license plus a Mechanical Enterprise license (either meba or ansys) is required.


Discovery checks out the license when the solve begins and releases it when the solve completes.