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Release license while working in NX

Release license while working in NX

Release license while working in NX

(OP)
Hi All,

We are still on floating licenses (no Mach Bundles). Up to NX6 (I believe) it was possible to release any licenses, you were using in NX, by selecting Ctrl-W shortcut on the keyboard.
NX would go to Gateway making the rest of the licenses available for others...

As of NX7.5 this is no longer possible (as it seems). Is there another way of releasing the licenses you are using without shutting down NX?

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

RE: Release license while working in NX

I checked in NX6 and Ctrl+W is for Show/Hide (same as in NX7.5 and later).
No OOTB shortcut exists for Gateway that I could find.
Why not just create a shortcut to automatically send you to Gateway?

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer



NX3 to NX10 with almost every MR (29versions)

RE: Release license while working in NX

(OP)

Quote (PhoeNX)

No OOTB shortcut exists for Gateway that I could find

the objective is not to go to Gateway...(that would be the end result). For me it is important to release all licenses...
To be specific, we have a limited amount of Advanced Assemblies licenses. Currently it is only possible to release such a license (when used) by shutting down the NX session of the user who has the license...This is of course not the best solution..

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

RE: Release license while working in NX

Making Gateway the application cannot (?) be that frequent command that you need a hotkey ?
Application - Gateway ( or File - Gateway in later versions) should still do the same trick. (?)
Regards,
Tomas

RE: Release license while working in NX

A lot depends on how the license file is created. If the AA license is tied to a base license, then it cannot be independently released.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Release license while working in NX

the advanced assemblies license is like duct tape... I have seen the same issue on this one. We should really open an IR on that.

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Release license while working in NX

You might be able to release the licence with a journal using this command.

CODE

thesession.LicenseManager.Release("assemblies", Nothing) 

We use bundles so I can't test it.

Mike Hyde
www.astonmartin.com
NX10.0.3 with TC11.2.1 and Vis 11.2

RE: Release license while working in NX

If you close all parts, is the license released?

Mark Rief
NX CAM Customer Success
Siemens PLM Software

RE: Release license while working in NX

(OP)

Quote (markrief)

If you close all parts, is the license released?

Nope...need to close the NX session to release it

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

RE: Release license while working in NX

Stop and restart the license server will release all licenses.
I think there is also a flush command that will kill all license connections with FlexNet.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Release license while working in NX

I agree that this is a poor workaround , this issue must be a PR .
Anyway, :

The Lmutil has the option to remove a specific license from a specific user, :
The C:\siemens\flexlem\lmutil ( to be run in a command window, not a graphical user interface)
( lmutil -help prints all the options)
"
lmutil lmremove [-c licfile] feature user host display
"

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Release license while working in NX

(OP)

Quote (looslib)

Stop and restart the license server will release all licenses.
I think there is also a flush command that will kill all license connections with FlexNet.

Yeah, I think the rest of the users will really like that action.... yawn2

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

RE: Release license while working in NX

If they are active in NX, the system will just grab anew license when it checks and the users will keep rolling along. In Creo we get a pop-up saying the license as been reestablished, but this can be disabled.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

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