About Simulation Licensing Schemes

The licensing scheme determines whether you run simulations using credits or tokens.

In addition, your licensing choices determine the type of credits or tokens you use to run simulations. You can choose a unified licensing model with a common pool of SimUnit credits and tokens that are available for the entire portfolio of SIMULIA® 3DEXPERIENCE apps and legacy products, or you can use a "legacy" system of simulation tokens available before the introduction of the SimUnit model.

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Running a Simulation

When you run a simulation, you can choose between credits or tokens.

  • Credits are usually suitable for "burst" usage requirements that vary from day to day.
  • Tokens are usually suitable for consistent simulation usage and dependable pricing.

A fourth licensing option, academic licensing, is available for students, educators, and researchers.

For more information about licensing choices, see Simulation Licensing.

License Reduction for Design Improvement Studies

When using the SimUnit licensing model, a reduction in licenses is applied for all design improvement studies. For each doubling of the number of design points in a study, the license consumption rate is reduced.