Accessing a licence

A seat is available for £2160 per year and can be shared between multiple non-concurrent users.  The seat entitles you to access all of the modules available under our Departmental licence (listed below)

 

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of how many seats are required, which CRSids will have access to them and a source of funds

 

Short term access

If access is only required for a short period or funding for a full year is unavailable then the following rates are available:

• Three months – £650
• Six months – £1200

This will provide access to all modules but the seat would be shared with other end users also requiring short term access.

 

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of which length period is required, which CRSids will have access and a source of funds.

 

Available modules

AC/DC	Acoustics	Battery Design	CFD
Corrosion	Chemical Reaction Engineering	Electrochemistry	Electrodeposition
Fuel cell & Electrolyzer	Geomechanics	Heat Transfer	Material Library
MEMS	Microfluidics	Composite Materials	Multibody Dynamics
Nonlinear Structural Materials	Optimization	Particle Tracing	Pipe Flow
Polymer Flow	Porous Media	Ray Optics	RF
Semiconductor	Structural Mechanics	Subsurface Flow	Uncertainty Quantification
Wave Optics

LiveLink for Autocad	LiveLink for Inventor	LiveLink for Matlab	LiveLink for Solidworks
CAD import	ECAD import

Installation instructions

Please note that you will be unable to access the licence server without having paid for a licence

• Ensure that the account on the device has the users CRSid as the username
  • For instructions on how to do that on Windows & macOS please see this page
• For Engineering users off-site access requires either an Engineering VPN connection or an SSH tunnel to the licence server
  • The licence server & port mentioned below will be needed for setting up the SSH tunnel
• For non Engineering users that are not otherwise using a device connected to the Cambridge University Data Network, off-site access requires a UIS VPN connection
• Download either the DVD ISO or the Mac DMG from http://software.eng.cam.ac.uk/comsol (Raven protected)
• Mount the image and run the setup program in it
• 1718@comsol-lmserv.eng.cam.ac.uk is the location of the license server when requested

 

Technical Support

For support on installing COMSOL please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with full details including screenshots of any errors

For support using COMSOL please see COMSOL’s Support Centre

 

Training/Support

Please see this page for details of online resources & support available to those with licences.