License types
Depending on your academic requirements and budget, you may select from 3 types of special academic licenses:
- Students' version is freeware. It may be downloaded from our Support Website. It may be installed on any number of computers - both in campus and at student's homes. The only drawback of this free version is that it is unable to mesh or solve problems which have more than 200 nodes. However, previously solved problems of any size may be fully analyzed with the free Student's version postprocessor. So this version may be used for simple calculations and as a full-featured viewer of solutions prepared with other QuickField licenses
- QuickField Professional is commercial software, widely used in industry and research. It solves problems of practically any size - up to many millions of mesh nodes. It may be ordered as a single-user or floating network version, and is protected by a small electronic device called a copy protection key. The key may be either USB or parallel type and may even be shared on your network between QuickField sessions originated from any computer within the same network up to the predefined number or simultaneously run copies. The cost of the Professional version depends on the analysis configuration and the number of the seats ordered. Educational organisations are offered special pricing for the full set of QuickField analysis options. You can also order it on a yearly basis as an Annual University License. Maintenance, which includes free updates, covers a full year of the Annual License use, and first three months of the permanent license (which may be extended for 20 percent of the license cost per 12 months of maintenance extension)
- QuickField Lite by limiting the number of mesh nodes to the artificial threshold set high enough to satisfy the usual requirements for student assignments (2500 mesh nodes) we are able to offer the full Professional package at a much reduced cost. It is designed to suit multiple access in the classroom and is available as a network installation of 10 or more seats and is sold exclusively to educational organizations.
All three QuickField versions - Student, Lite and Professional - share the same user interface, analysis options, documentation and are fully supported by the QuickField Support team.
Budget-minded tutors with ambitious teaching plans may consider their combined use. For example, it may be helpful to have one copy of the Professional version for the teacher, a set of Lite versions installed on campus and also recommend students download the Student's version on their home computers.
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