Flexlim and OrCad

[Dick in Raleigh]

New Flexlim installation SUCKS ! ! !

[Skip Yutkus]

Dick,

Throw away the instructions - if you are running a single nodelocked copy you do not need to install any license management software - just install without the license, (if you have that option), after you install just make sure that the Environment Variable CDS_LIC_FILE is pointing to where your license is.

Skip

[Gizzmo]

Haha made me laugh! oh and +1 for skip's comment....

[Dick in Raleigh]

I work for a company that is very carefull about legal software.
Would only install the software the approved way. A new employee will be bitchin tomorrow. Cadence won't let employer return 2 new unopened and just received packages. Flexlim & Cadence suck! Just alot less than Altium.
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[Gizzmo]

I work for a company that is very carefull about legal software.
Would only install the software the approved way. A new employee will be bitchin tomorrow. Cadence won't let employer return 2 new unopened and just received packages. Flexlim & Cadence suck! Just alot less than Altium.
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Skip's install note is a completely legit way of setting cadence up.

Its even a more nightmare when youre trying to run Cadence, Expedition, Boardstation, Orcad, and Gerbtool all on one machine which all use Flexlm.... :eek:

[Skip Yutkus]

Gizzmo,

You have no idea how many people refuse to accept the fact that on a nodelocked license you don't need license management software - even after I walk them through it, I'll talk to them in a couple of months and they've uninstalled called support and spent much time just to have the management software on the machine. ("I've got a license, I must need that") GEESH!

Skip

[Gizzmo]

Gizzmo,

You have no idea how many people refuse to accept the fact that on a nodelocked license you don't need license management software - even after I walk them through it, I'll talk to them in a couple of months and they've uninstalled called support and spent much time just to have the management software on the machine. ("I've got a license, I must need that") GEESH!

Skip

I just wish there was a faster way to batch in and out environment variables, because some tools like there own License file to be the only one, so normally i am editing LM_LICENSE etc to just hold the license file i am currently using so it doesnt search through each and every file i have listed......

[Skip Yutkus]

Ahh! FlexLM noobie!;)

Just append all your licenses into 1 big license.dat - simply cut and paste - keep backups, but it works! Makes startup a little slower but that's all. OR alternately the Env.Variable can contain multiple paths just separate them with a semi-colon.

Skip

[Gizzmo]

Ahh! FlexLM noobie!;)

Just append all your licenses into 1 big license.dat - simply cut and paste - keep backups, but it works! Makes startup a little slower but that's all. OR alternately the Env.Variable can contain multiple paths just separate them with a semi-colon.

Skip

Mentor will let you do that BUT sometimes Expedition takes YEARS to start (Boardstation fires right up), and Cadence and a few other tools wont let you do that :-/

[Skip Yutkus]

Some of that problem may be solved, see my post in the BS section.
Skip