Pscad license manager

A user may obtain a license certificate on a machine by using their MyCentre login credentials. This will access his or her product account containing the license. It will automatically be set to expire approximately four weeks following the initial activation date, so long as the license does not expire during that period. This permits a period of offline usage. NOTE : If a member intends to work offline with a license, he must ensure that he configures the licensing for offline usage for the full day period.

Otherwise, the license certificate may not be activated on Machine B. It may be released expired at any time by the member, and returned to the account. It may then be re-activated for an additional four weeks, so long as the license does not expire during that period. Once a license certificate is activated, multiple instances of PSCAD may be run on a workstation using a single license certificate. The number of instances run on a workstation is only limited by the memory size.

This is a major advantage of a certificate license over a lock-based license; in the latter, each instance of PSCAD consumes one seat the equivalent of a license certificate. One additional consideration when using a certificate license is that certain software requires the use of a software deployment utility, called MyUpdater.

Occasionally, a pre-release version may be provided to select members via MyUpdater to deploy required fixes or to test new features. MyUpdater is optional for the deployment of the Professional Edition, and is not yet available for the Educational Edition. Anyone may join MyCentre. The Free Edition is automatically made available in each user account see below for instructions on obtaining this edition.

A user account is required for obtaining the following:. Running a temporary Professional or Educational Edition using certificate licensing for either a training session or a trial license.

See Section 2. When setting up the license manager, the user will be prompted whether to also install a license file. If you have access to the license file at this time, you can select the option to install it.

If you do not have the license file, you can select the option to not install it, but it will need to be installed at a later time to authorize licensing for PSCAD. System requirements are available from this webpage. If you have access to the license file, you can select "Yes" when prompted whether to install the file, and you will be directed to Step 7 of the Quick Start document for this installation.

If you do not have the file, select "No", and install this file later, per this article. Click here for a download of the latest version, v1. MyCentre Licensing. Multi-User Lock-Based License. Single-User Lock-Based License. Certificate License.

Licensing Modes. License Types.