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[Zed]

Hi,

does anyone knows the limitations imposed on mechanical academic licenses? We have a student who got an error that the "valid geometric limitations are exceeded" and that saving and export is no longer possible. We use the software in german so this message is just a rough translation into english.

When assigning the student a normal commercial license everything works fine. Since we don't know the limitations of the academic licenses we don't know how to avoid this message.

If someone can tell or has a link to an Ansys page with this information it would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[Rob]

There's a cell limit on Student and Teaching keys. The Student key is summarised here https://www.ansys.com/academic/students/ansys-student and I think Teaching is at around the same level. Research and Commercial keys don't have the limits.

[Zed]

Hi Rob thanks for your answer. I'm not sure if we have student licenses. In the license file it is called "ANSYS Academic Research Mechanical". Does this map to the Research keys you mentioned?

[Rob]

That should be a Research key and not have limits. Can you check the Student's calling that and not Teaching? That's in the licence manager somewhere.

[Zed]

We only have "normal/commercial" and "Academic Research" licenses. No Student and Teaching licenses.
Alright then, thank you very much. I think we get back to the Ansys Support with this error :-D

[Rob]

Support will be able to get much more information, and there are specialists in your time zone.

[Lorraine Olson]

Unable to import the specified geometry into SpaceClaim 

(from Solidworks into SpaceClaim, through Workbench)

I am using Solidworks 2022-2023 and have created a basic part, saved as a SLDPRT.  When I use workbench and Geometry -> Import Geometry I get a green check mark, but when I double-click to open the geometry I get "Unable to import the specified geometry into SpaceClaim. Input file version not supported." 

I tried the solidworks "save as Parasolid" V30 fix I found in these posts, but that is an unsatisfying solution for software that costs this much.  

Even though I am a professor at a engineering school that pays a lot of money for this software, they now tell me that I am not entitled to support beyond posting questions on this forum.  Also unsatisfying.