License Management

The department of Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) provides for Institutes of Technische Universität Darmstadt various software products and their licenses.

This software and the licenses are only available to those institutions. These are not student licenses.

The following products and licenses are currently available through the cooperation with Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. (Siemens PLM Software) free of charge:

  • NX
  • Learning Advantage
  • Simcenter 3D
  • Tecnomatix (Plant Simulation)
  • among others

Responsible: Christian Plesker, M.Sc.

The following products and licenses are currently available free of charge through the cooperation with MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC):

  • MSC Nastran
  • Adams
  • among others

Responsible: Christian Plesker, M.Sc.

The following products and licenses are currently available free of charge through our collaboration with Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC):

  • PTC Creo / Pro Engineer / Wildfire

Responsible: Tim Giese, M.Sc

General approach

  • Apply for an account for the license management
    • 1. Registration of one manager of the Institute for access to the License Management --> “Account beantragen (Account request)”
    • 2. Review and manual activation by the responsibles of the PLCM --> If access is granted a message will be sent to the specified email address.

With the activation of the account, managers can now manage their profile, apply for licenses and view the various manuals.

  • Apply for licenses
    • 3. A license for a software product can be applied by requesting the computer name, IP-address and MAC-address --> “Lizenzübersicht (License Overview)”
    • 4. Completing and submitting the registration form --> Notification is automatically sent to the responsibles of the PLCM.
      • a.) The responsible manager of the institute will get a PDF with the license agreement by eMail, if he asked for a license for specific software (eg. Hyperworks) the first time.
        This must be returned completed and stamped by internal mail or fax. Only after receiving the license agreement, an activation is possible.
      • b.) It’s not necessary to sign a new license agreement, if the responsible manager applies for a second licenses for the same software (eg. Hyperworks).
    • 5. Review and manual activation for the applied license(s) by the responsibles of the PLCM --> If access is granted a message will be sent to the specified email address.
    • 6. After activation of a license to a software package, it is possible for the responsible manager of the institute to load this software and associated updates.
    • 7. Full versions and updates can be loaded any time from now on, from the license management account by the responsible manager.

Link to the License Management License Management (NEW)