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Hi Altair Support Team, I recently had to reinstall Windows on my PC, which seems to have changed my HostID. When I try to use my Student Edition Activation Key from the Altair Marketplace, I receive the following error: "Error activating license: This license was already activated using different HostIDs." Could you…
Hi, im trying to install inspire studio and am having alot of difficulty with the license key. Ive followed the instructions and received a license key from the market place, opened the almutil_gui, input said key and got the pop up for the license key being stored but when i open the programme it still doesnt work, can…
Hello, I recently had to clean-install Altair HyperWorks on my computer due to some graphics driver conflicts. However, during the new installation, I received an error stating that my Activation Key is already active on another machine/instance. It seems I didn't formally deactivate the license before uninstalling the…
I startet evaluating Feko yesterday, especially its LUA scripting capabilities. After some hours of scripting, I run into license problems. As it seemed I had some zombie Feko processes running, I tried killing all Feko processes without success. Rebooting did not help as well. Consequently, I checked the license storage…
I'm wondering if there any options to making meshes without surfaces in Hypermesh 2025. When I use Hypermesh 2021, I can make meshes without making any surfaces. If I use ruled function, there are selecting menu 'w/o surf' in Hypermesh 2021. But I can't find any similar options in Hypermesh 2025. Whenever I make 2d meshes…
I just dowloaded the altair Inspire for uni, and when i open the app it asks for a license and i dont know what to put. I put my login info and nothing as well
Altair SLC Linux Python SU2 script simulating a hydrofoil Source https://su2code.github.io/tutorials/Inc_Inviscid_Hydrofoil/ Note: There is a Windows SU2 package, created within the last few months, but I could not get it to work. I think Linux is a better platform for SU2 (and other applications?) Too long to post here,…
Hi, I'm now using hm2022.1 and hm2025.1 in my company. The geometry faceting level setting, in preferences, has limitation because it improves the 'surface' faceting resolution, but does not affect the geometry 'edge's resolution', causing the mismatch and weird gap between geometry surface and edge lines. (below image) To…
Description: When a set up the optimization, I select homogenized weave in the "Product" options for some plies and I also have some core but when I open the result .fem they all switched back to unidirectional. I was wondering if this affected my results ? Also, I read that if you select core for a ply it is not suppose…
Hello everyone, I am working on a Radioss explicit simulation in HyperMesh 2026 and I need to apply an axial preload tension to a set of truss elements (string modeled with /PROP/TYPE2) to simulate the pretension of a tennis racket stringing. According to the Radioss 2026 Reference Guide, this should be done using the…
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