1.1. Overview of Elastic Licensing

Ansys Elastic Licensing is a "pay-per-use" licensing system that enables hourly-based licensing of virtually every Ansys product through a single product offering called Ansys Elastic Unit (AEU). Ansys Elastic Licensing complements other licensing solutions from Ansys by providing you with on-demand access to core portfolio of pre-post, solver, and HPC simulation solutions. You only pay for what you use, allowing you to efficiently meet fluctuating licensing demands throughout the year, while accommodating high usage periods associated with critical new projects. You simply buy a number of AEUs and from this "pool" as you consume them. Each Ansys product consumes a number of these AEUs per hour.

You can see the number of AEUs consumed by each product in the elastic license rate table. For information on viewing this table, see Viewing License Entitlements.

Summary of New and Changed Features

Listed below is a summary of those licensing items that are either new or have been changed since the last release. For a list of all major new and changed features of any product, see the Release Notes document for that product.

General Licensing:

  • Ansys Motion Enterprise product now includes access to 4 CPU cores at no additional cost

  • The Mechanical Design Type in AEDT enables four Solution Setups:

    • Transient Thermal and Steady-State Thermal​ requires Icepak Premium or Electronics Enterprise license​

    • Modal and Structural​ requires Mechanical Pro/Premium/Enterprise​

Web:

  • Added access to a range of academic products.

  • Added access to Ansys Totem-SC Worker Group.

  • Added access to the following Startup Program bundles:

    • Electromagnetics Bundle

    • Embedded Software Bundle

    • Optics and Photonics Bundle

    • Semiconductor Analog and Mixed Signal Bundle

    • Semiconductor Digital and AMS Bundle

    • Structural and Fluids Bundle

  • The Ansys Licensing Portal has added a new Shared Web Licensing peak service usage report.

  • The Ansys Licensing Portal Web Transactions Table has been enhanced.

  • Paid and unpaid licenses are shown on maximum simultaneous usage charts.

Licensing Portal and ID Portal:

  • Column orders are now remembered between sessions.

  • Enhancements present consistent actions on Users and Groups pages.