When starting 'Advanced Meshing' in WorkBench, I see tabs/menus that are not in the ICEM CFD 5.0 (CFX) version and it gives me license errors when I click on some of the menus.




WHY THIS HAPPENS:

If you have installed only those components for which you have licenses, the default settings should work without any problems. However if you have installed all or other flavors of ICEM (ai,fsi,cfd & cfx), although you may have licenses to only run the 'cfx' version, you will run into some of the above mentioned problems. Adv. Meshing defaults to 'fsi' or 'ai' mode in this situation for which you may not have licenses.

The license errors could happen at startup or when clicking on some of the tabs after startup.

HOW TO CHANGE THE STARTUP MODE:

This involves editing the registry settings on Windows. If you are not familiar with doing this please get expert help or call Ansys Technical Support.

Go the following directory in the Registry Editor - My ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAnsys,IncICEM CFD5.0

You should see a value, ICEM_MODE. The values of ICEM_MODE lists the different flavors installed. example: ICEM_MODE=fsi cfd ai cfx, this shows all four flavours have been installed.

The string value WB_AI_MODE sets the 'Advanced Meshing' startup mode. So WB_AI_MODE = fsi, causes 'Advanced Meshing' to start in fsi mode. For CFX users this needs to be set to WB_AI_MODE = cfx. ( or maybe 'cfd' )

However, if you do not have the ICEM Hexa license, BLOCKING & POST PROCESSING tabs may still show up, typically causing license errors. To turn these of, you need to add a new STRING VALUE in the same location

WB_AI_OPTIONS = no_hexa,no_post

This will disable the BLOCKING & POST PROCESSING menus, thus preventing any errors due to unavailable licenses.





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