Tech Articles
Patran 2010.2 Student Edition Licensing Problem
| Tech Articles ID | KB8019822 | |
| Status: | Published | |
| Published date: | 04/20/2011 | |
| Updated: | 07/12/2014 | |
| Reported In: | Patran |
Abstract (Question)
Why am I getting a license error when running MD Patran 2010.2 Student Edition?
You have requested to run MSC.Patran on a Windows <Hostname>(MacAddress)(OS Info). There are no version 2011.0201 licenses installed to satisfy this request. License File: port@host Please request your systems administrator to review the installation procedures for MSC.Software products on your system and/or contact your Support Representative for further assistance.
Description (Answer)
MD Patran 2010.2. Student Edition requires no licenses. A user, however, will get this error message if there is an existing MSC_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE variable that is set to anything except "EDU" on their machine.
The workaround is to either change the MSC_LICENSE_FILE variable value to "EDU" or edit the $P3_HOME\site_setup.pm file:
1) Open the file: C:\MSC.Software\MD_Nastran_Student_Edition\20102\Patran\site_setup.pm with "notepad"
2) Change the following line from:
setEnv('MSC_LICENSE_FILE','EDU');
to:
setEnv('MSC_LICENSE_FILE','EDU', 'OverWrite');
