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HyperWorks 2017 Licensing Release Notes

HyperWorks 2017 Licensing Release Notes

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Highlights

Altair provides a unique and innovative license mechanism that allows users to maximize productivity and functionality when using the HyperWorks suite of programs. HyperWorks 2017 Licensing provides a number of new features and bug fixes with the latest release of HyperWorks 2017. New products have been added, as well as an update of the license system.

The highlights of HyperWorks 2017 licensing are following:

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Changing Product Version Scheme

HyperWorks product version number has been changed from an incremental number to a year –based version number.  A valid license file should have a version number matching the last two digits of the year number.

A valid license file to run HyperWorks 2017 products should have a “17.0” version displayed in each license feature included in the license file.

 
hmtoggle_arrow1Upgrading to Altair License Manager 13.0

The Altair License System has been updated to 13.0, providing better reliability and bugs fixes. The major changes in this new version is the mechanism of the license features get checked out.

Licenses now checkout “atomically”, preventing client applications from getting ‘locked’ to a license server that may satisfy part of the checkout request but all of it as far as features are concerned.  If a server can not satisfy the complete request, the client will continue searching down the license path until it finds one that can, or exhausts the list.

The Altair License Manager 13.0 is required to run HyperWorks 2017 products. It is backward compatible with previous HyperWorks versions.

Note that, the utility lmxendutil is no longer supported in 2017, use almutil or the ALM GUI utility is recommended.

 
hmtoggle_arrow1Adding New Product License Features

In addition, many new standalone products are released and are HyperWorks Unit enabled.  The brief product function and their HyperWorks Units draws are described below:

•HyperWorks Multiscale Designer is an efficient tool for development and simulation of multiscale material models of continuous, woven, and/or chopped fiber composites, honeycomb cores, reinforced concrete, soil, bones, and various other heterogeneous materials. MDS v3.3 takes 35 HyperWorks to invoke Multiscale Designer GUI application, and 6 units to run the solver plugin for LS-DYNA and Abaqus.
•HyperWorks WinProp is a highly accurate and very fast in wave propagation and radio network planning software.  WinProp v14.0 supports HyperWorks Units and takes 15 HyperWorks units to run WinProp application and WinProp Solver.
•HyperWorks Flux is a low frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulation software that captures the complexity of electromagnetic and thermal phenomena to predict and optimize the behavior of future products with precision. It consumes 15 HWU’s to run Flux 2D and 21 HWU’s for Flux 3D GUI. Flux v12.2 is HyperWorks unit enabled. It takes 25 HWU’s to run Flux 3D solver on a machine with 1-4 cores and follows the same HyperWorks solvers licensing mechanism for additional cores.
•solidThinking Activate is a multi-disciplinary system simulation and optimization solution. It requires 15 HWU’s to run Activate 2016.
•solidThinking Compose is an interactive and unified programming environment based upon a high level, matrix-based numerical computing language for all types of math operations. It takes 10 HWU’s to run Compose 2016.
•solidThinking Embed - formerly known as VisSim Embedded - is a visual environment for model based development of embedded systems with highly efficient diagram-to-code capabilities.  It consumes 25 HWU’s to run Embed 2016 and 15 HWU’s for Simulation editions.
•solidThinking Click2Cast is a casting process simulation software developed under an innovative user experience, allowing the complete simulation to be done in 5 simple steps and through a completely new and user-friendly interface. It takes 15 HWU’s to run Click2Cast 4.0.

 
hmtoggle_arrow1Product Unit Draw Changes
•Templex no longer draws HyperWorks units starting HyperWorks 14.0.120 reease.  It required 6 HWU’s in previous releases.

 
hmtoggle_arrow1Resolved Issues
•Fixed license related application errors when switching clients (HyperView, HyperMesh, HyperGraph, and MotionView
•Fixed special case when malformed license server string causes an application crash