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Fuel your coursework and project-based learning with software tools that breathe life into theoretical concepts, accelerate your product design skills, and make you real-world-ready.
The Altair Student Edition bundle contains numerous products that span across Altair's extensive technology portfolio – all easily accessed through a single license/ activation key. Here are just some of the product categories of the Altair Student Edition bundle.
For a bit more information about each product included in our Student Edition bundle, browse this article in the Altair Community and search it for specific categories or generic applications (such as “structures” or “power electronics”).
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The updated Student Edition process now leverages Altair One and uses a streamlined process to provide you with the free Altair Student Edition. Altair One is the one-and-only place to download all Altair Software, access the Altair community, learning resources, support, and much more!
Follow the steps below to access and use the free Altair Student Edition.
NOTE: In most cases, Altair One will automatically recognize your university using your email domain and link your user account with your university's account. If your email domain is associated with more than one university account you will be prompted to select the applicable one from a list. If your university is not listed you must add it manually by clicking on “Not Listed?”.
Click here for a PDF with detailed instructions on this step with screenshots.
NOTE: If instead of the license activation key a "pending verification" message appears, please wait 2-3 business days and check your email to be notified when your credentials are verified. Once the verification is complete you can go back and finish this step.
Click here for a pdf with detailed instructions on this step, explained with screenshots
Click here for a pdf with detailed instructions on this step, explained with screenshots.
NOTE: You only have to complete this step for the first Altair software product that you download and install from the Student Edition bundle.
Click here for a pdf with detailed instructions of this step, explained with screenshots.
AI Studio - If using AI Studio separately and not after installing any other product like Altair Inspire beforehand, you will need the ALMUTIL GUI, download ALMUTIL GUI from the below links for the concerned OS
https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.solidthinking.portal.public/almutil_15.5.0_win64_x64.zip
https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.solidthinking.portal.public/almutil_15.5.0_linux_x64.tar.gz
https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.solidthinking.portal.public/almutil_15.5.0_darwin_universal.zip (For MAC Users)
You may need to allow Almutil App in security (for MAC especially or right click and open instead of opening it directly in MAC)
Once you have entered the key in the activation tab of ALMUTIL GUI and you receive a “license was added successfully” message as per step 4 above,
In some cases it may be necessary to go to settings > preferences and change to Altair Units Licensing , if the tool was previously set to work with RapidMiner Licensing as below.
In some cases AI Studio may not work immediately, with a "The AI Studio feature could not be checked out ... " message,
In which case you will need to configure the license in AI Studio as well, Please do the below steps, in the above window you will need to select "Configure Altair License"
Choose manual configuration in AI Studio
Then go to On Premise
Then go to choose in the window above and navigate to the path of the license file and choose that file, this path is indicated in Almutil activation tab in blue below the license field as well,
To expose the .altair_licensing folder you may need to right click in the users/your name/ folder and show hidden, once at the exact path select the file that will be named your license key.lic for example LKPO1-POWS2-UY76W-WEQ2.lic and then click on "Save & Connect"
You should then see a license configuration successful message, and the App is activated and will start up,
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Student |
Professional Edition |
Academic |
Personal |
Licensed to |
Students currently enrolled in an academic institution |
Companies, government organizations, commercial R&D |
Academic institutions |
Anyone |
Permitted Usage |
Self-learning; No commercial use |
Commercial use including non-published research |
Course instruction, project-based learning, thesis work, and published research; No commercial use |
Learning and evaluation; No commercial use |
Architecture |
Windows, MAC (for AI Studio and Inspire Studio etc.) |
Windows; |
Windows; |
Windows |
Cost |
Free for installation on the student’s personal computer |
Annual subscription for installation on company-owned computers |
Discounted annual subscription for installation on university-owned computers |
Free |
Products |
All |
All |
Altair Inspire, Altair Compose, Altair Twin Activate, Altair Embed, Altair AI Studio, Altair SLC |
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Licensing |
1-year Activation Key Renewable |
Standard Altair licensing options |
Altair Units enable access to Altair's entire portfolio of software as an all-in-one bundle |
1-year node-locked license for instant download and use |
Download and Access |
Request your Student Edition software |
Create an account in the Altair One Marketplace |
Request your Academic Edition software |
Instant download and activation |
Most of the products in the Altair Student Edition bundle do not have any limitations, but for those that do, we've described them in this section.
The are NO model or problem size limitations for the following products:
General limitations for all products included in the Student Edition
HyperMesh and Altair Solver Limitations
Install HM (desktop exe) and Mechanical Solvers to the same installation folder
Solver Limitations
Post-Processing
HyperStudy
Altair Monarch Limitations
Altair EDEM Limitations
Altair PSIM Limitations
If your university doesn't accommodate its students with assigned email addresses, you will unfortunately not be able to use a free Altair Student Edition license.
Please reach out to your university to see if they can create an email address for you. If not, have your professor fill the Information Request form here and acquire an Academic License. With an Academic License, your professor can give their students access without requiring a school-issued email address.