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Student Edition - Error 9 - in VM

Altair Forum User

Hello!

I got the Student Edition 2017 version of FEKO installed a few days ago, but I've been unable to solve the license problems that keep showing up. It's installed on a virtual machine running Windows 10 on a Ubuntu server, if that's the issue. The error I get is Error 9: Feature not found, which is the same no matter if I start CADFEKO or POSTFEKO. A screenshot of the error is attached.

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I have followed the basic troubleshooting guide in that I've made sure that the license file isn't named '.dat.dat' and that it's located in the 'C:\Program Files\Altair\2017-edu\security\'-folder as shown below

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In an attempt to try another folder I also added it to 'C:\Program Files\Altair\security\altair_lic.dat' and adding a system variable 'ALTAIR_LICENSE_PATH' which points to that location and file (the exact value is 'C:\Program Files\Altair\security\altair_lic.dat'). And it seems like FEKO can find this file to, but I still get error 9: Feature not found.

I've also double checked that the Ethernet physical address is the correct one. The one I have in the license file is

 COMMENT = ' Server Info:  ETHERNET = 525400887701'

and the one listed in the license-utility is matching that, as can be seen in the image below

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The featured that are listed in the license file are:

HyperWorksEDU

Acufieldview

Evolve

Inspire

HyperViewTrans

InspireStampingOneStepFeature

InspireMotion

But I don't think this is the issue because I have a fellow student with the same features and for him it works just fine.

I've tried to search the forum but now I don't know what else to check or troubleshoot. Any suggestions?

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QuyNguyenDai

Hello!

I have followed the basic troubleshooting guide in that I've made sure that the license file isn't named '.dat.dat' and that it's located in the 'C:\Program Files\Altair\2017-edu\security\'-folder as shown below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

In an attempt to try another folder I also added it to 'C:\Program Files\Altair\security\altair_lic.dat' and adding a system variable 'ALTAIR_LICENSE_PATH' which points to that location and file (the exact value is 'C:\Program Files\Altair\security\altair_lic.dat'). And it seems like FEKO can find this file to, but I still get error 9: Feature not found.

From your screenshot, the full path of license file should be:

C:\Program Files\Altair\2017-edu\security\altair_lic.dat

Altair Forum User

From your screenshot, the full path of license file should be:

C:\Program Files\Altair\2017-edu\security\altair_lic.dat

Yeah, I have a license-file at both locations (just a result of me trying to troubleshoot)

'C:\Program Files\Altair\2017-edu\security\altair_lic.dat'

'C:\Program Files\Altair\security\altair_lic.dat'

And I do think that FEKO finds and can read both files, because if I remove the file in '\2017-edu\security' I get 'Error 6: Unable to read file'. (I don't get an error if I remove file in '\Altair\security\', so I guess the former location is prioritized. If I remove both I get Error 6 for both locations.)