Here we present some of the most common questions that user's of THESEUS-FE have.
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A:
For issuing your license file we need the name of your license server. This is often called the "hostname". For single-user installations this usually is the machine that your are using THESEUS-FE on.
Furthermore we need the MAC address of its Ethernet network card. For FlexNet licensing this is called the "hostid".
To determine this information there are several methods specific to the operating system that is used.
See the questions below for instructions on how to determine this data.
A: On each operating system there are several ways to determine the hostname. Choose the one which you prefer.
Method 1 (using native tools):
Open up the command prompt and enter:
hostname
Method 2 (using FlexNet tools):
Alternatively you can use the FlexNet utility tools to determine the MAC address. These are included in the THESEUS‑FE installation packages or can separately be downloaded from the
software downloads page
Open up the command prompt, go to the directory where the tool "lmutil.exe" is located in and enter: lmutil.exe lmhostid -hostname
Method 1 (using native tools):
Open up a terminal window and enter:
hostname
Method 2 (using FlexNet tools):
Alternatively you can use the FlexNet utility tools to determine the MAC address. These are included in the THESEUS‑FE installation packages or can separately be downloaded from the
software downloads page
Open up the terminal window, go to the directory where the tool "lmutil" is located in and enter: lmutil lmhostid -hostname
A: On each operating system there are several ways to determine the hostid. Choose the one which you prefer.
Method 1 (using native tools):
Open up the command prompt and enter:
ipconfig /all
The block for the Ethernet network card usually starts with "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection".
The MAC address is listed as "Physical Adress" and has the form "XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX" using 12 hexadecimal digits.
Method 2 (using FlexNet tools):
Alternatively you can use the FlexNet utility tools to determine the MAC address. These are included in the THESEUS‑FE installation packages or can separately be downloaded from the
software downloads page
Open up the command prompt, go to the directory where the tool "lmutil.exe" is located in and enter: lmutil.exe lmhostid -ether
This will show the MAC address of the Ethernet network card(s) in the form "XXXXXXXXXXXX" using 12 hexadecimal digits
Method 1 (using native tools):
Open up a terminal window and enter:
/sbin/ifconfig
The block for the Ethernet network card usually starts with "eth0".
The MAC address is listed as "HWaddr" and has the form "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" using 12 hexadecimal digits.
Method 2 (using FlexNet tools):
Alternatively you can use the FlexNet utility tools to determine the MAC address. These are included in the THESEUS‑FE installation packages or can separately be downloaded from the
software downloads page
Open up the terminal window, go to the directory where the tool "lmutil" is located in and enter: lmutil lmhostid -ether
This will show the MAC address of the Ethernet network card(s) in the form "XXXXXXXXXXXX" using 12 hexadecimal digits
A: The GUI settings are stored per user in user-specific storage in the user's home directory. Its format is based on the QSettings class from the Qt framework.
%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\PUZ\THESEUS-GUI.ini
~/.config/PUZ/THESEUS-GUI.ini
You should only change this file by hand, if you are certain about the right syntax.
Otherwise stick to setting it within the GUI options under
Tools → Options → Environment → Keymap tab.
However, if you want to recover from some bad settings and resetting it within the GUI does not help, you can delete this file and the GUI will re-create it with default values on its next startup.
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We offer engineering services and consultancy to profitably employ simulation within your development process.
This is a small overview of our services to assist you:
In our Training & Support Center (TSC) at our headquarter in Munich we offer training workshops around the basic & advanced usage of THESEUS‑FE. Additionally trainings for related engineering software tools and workflow processes are available, too.
Depending on the package of THESEUS‑FE that you purchase, you might be even qualify for an initial free training workshop.
For users in China, Japan and South Korea, your local reseller will surely arrange the proper training for you.
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We always try to keep in touch with researchers which are working on topics related to the feature set of THESEUS‑FE. Whenever THESEUS‑FE gets used in scientific work, it makes us really proud. A small part of this work can be found in the publication section.
Our engineers regularly participate at thematically related seminars and conferences. Talks and presentations held on this occasions can be found in this section for download, too.
Besides these, the publication section contains other material related to THESEUS‑FE, e.g. press releases or our newsletters.
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Nothing is more important to us than ensuring the quality of THESEUS‑FE. Using automated testing we do our best to validate each feature of THESEUS‑FE and to ensure its functionality from version to version.
Some of the primitive testing cases are shown in the following sections for demonstration purposes. Besides our extensive set of tutorial cases they are suitable for getting in touch with THESEUS‑FE to learn how to model certain physical phenomena.
Simulation models for all validation cases are included in installation package of THESEUS‑FE.
See our publically available validation cases
As part of our business we offer engineering services for all kinds of simulations using THESEUS‑FE.
You may book one of our engineers for simulations in the following fields:
One of our major strengths is our flexibility regarding custom software solutions. With the strong backbone provided by our thermal solver THESEUS‑FE, we can offer individualized features such as:
The first step when creating models for any kind of FE-simulation is the preparation of the CAD data and the mesh creation. For this process we use the most advanced software tools and interfaces currently available on the market. Our model creation engineers are highly trained for any kinds of modelling task arising for simulations:
Besides experts for thermal and CFD simulation, our team also includes experts in the field of mechanics simulations.
For mechanical simulations our site mostly relies on the tool Abaqus FEA.
We can offer nearly any kind of simulation in this domain, including:
Numerical flow simulation is becoming increasingly established, even for the analysis of complex phenomena such as multi-phase flows and fluid-structure interation.
Simulation results often offer an insight into flow behaviour that is inaccessible when relying on standard measurement techniques.
Our specialists will find the best combination of tools to crack your flow problem.
We offer CFD simulations with Star-CCM+ or OpenFOAM, both of which can be coupled with THESEUS‑FE for co-simulation runs as necessary:
Using correct material properties is of utmost importance when doing numerical simulations. They are the basis for meaningful simulations to produce results faithfully recreating real-world behaviour.
In our in-house laboratory boasts a selection of mechanical measuring instruments, for example
These are mainly used for but not limited to measuring the proper input material properties for our user-material subroutine for adhesives.