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Altair HyperWorks Introduction
Quick introduction to Altair HyperWorks products.
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Altair Units licensing information.
Global Licensing
Global licensing restricts client usage to the appropriately licensed Global Zone. There are three Global Zones defined by Altair.

What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.1.
Altair HyperWorks Introduction
Quick introduction to Altair HyperWorks products.
- Product Overviews
  Overview of Altair HyperWorks products.
- Altair HyperWorks Help
  The Altair HyperWorks help gives you in-depth knowledge of the Altair HyperWorks products.
- About Altair HyperWorks Products
  The About dialog contains copyright information and a link to the Intellectual Property Rights Notice.
- Get Updates and System Information
  In addition to the main releases of Altair HyperWorks products, Altair issues software updates between major releases.
- Platform Support
  Platforms, operating systems, and processors supported by Altair HyperWorks 2024.1 products, which includes 2024.1 solver packages.
- Hardware Recommendations and Certifications
  View the most recent recommended graphic boards, laptops and desktop hardware configurations.
- Install Non-US Keyboards
  Learn how to configure a local keyboard for your operating system.
- Altair Units Licensing
  Altair Units licensing information.
  - Altair HyperWorks Products Unit Draw
    Altair licensing is based on the Altair Licensing Manager (ALM), which enables the unique and flexible Altair Units business model.
  - Project Tracking
    All applications using the licensing system have the added capability to log a project string on the server during license checkouts.
  - Altair Units and Managed Altair Licensing
    Altair provides a cloud-based license server solution known as managed Altair Licensing. This allows customers to use either/or a traditional on-premises license server or an Altair server managed via Altair One. Altair One is Altair’s global customer portal.
  - Connect to the On-Premises Altair License Manager
  - Global Licensing
    Global licensing restricts client usage to the appropriately licensed Global Zone. There are three Global Zones defined by Altair.
  - Valid Environment Variables for Controlling Licensing Behavior
- Run Altair HyperWorks Products on Windows
  The installation process creates an Altair group on the Start menu for Windows 10/11.
- Run Altair HyperWorks Products on Linux
Tutorials
Discover the functionality of Altair HyperWorks products with interactive tutorials.
Altair HyperWorks Tools
Administrative tools to customize your Altair HyperWorks installation.

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Global Licensing

Global licensing restricts client usage to the appropriately licensed Global Zone. There are three Global Zones defined by Altair.

Global Zones Definition

American Global Zone (AM): This global zone covers the area between Hawaii and Iceland, including North and South America.
GMT-12 < Local time < GMT
European Global Zone (EU): This global zone covers Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
GMT <= Local time < GMT + 4
Asia Pacific Global Zone (AP): This global zone covers Asia Pacific (India, China) and Australia.
GMT +4 <= Local time <= GMT + 12

Global License Features

The older PartialGlobalLicense and FullGlobalLicense or GlobalGridWorks will be replaced by the following features. All client applications will check out the feature that is pertinent to the global zone where the application is running.

GlobalZoneAM allows license usage in the American Global Zone (AM).
GlobalZoneEU allows license usage in the European Global Zone (EU).
GlobalZoneAP allows license usage in the Asia Pacific Global Zone (AP).

When an Altair licensed client application begins execution, it attempts to check out the following three features if it is pointed at a network license server:

GlobalZoneXX (quantity as shown in table*1000)
Altair HyperWorks product feature (quantity as shown in table*1000)
Application feature (name of application, quantity as shown in table*1000)

All three of these checkouts must succeed in order to be properly licensed. All of them must also be fulfilled from the same license server. You may not split checkouts across multiple servers.