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3-Newcomer
April 24, 2026
Question

Mathcad license server giving us Home Use licenses instead of Commercial licenses

  • April 24, 2026
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We run FLEXnet on our company license server for Mathcad licenses. Currently on version 12. Our Mathcad license file has both permanent and subscription licenses of Mathcad Prime (and 15) in it. When a user runs Mathcad, the server first assigns a license from the permanent pool. If that pool fills up then it assigns a license from the subscription pool. The problem is when a user receives a license from the permanent pool, the license type shown within their Mathcad software says Home Use when it should say something like Commercial. This results in certain calculations being inaccessible and causing errors in their worksheet. But if a user receives a license from the subscription pool, the license type is shown as Subscription which should be fine.

I would like to know why our Mathcad license server is serving us Home Use licenses instead of the commercial licenses we paid for, and how do we fix this?

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Community Moderator
June 1, 2026

Hi ​@DNelson,

Thank you for your question. 

Your post appears well documented but has not yet received any response. I am replying to raise awareness. Hopefully, another community member will be able to help.

Also, feel free to add any additional information you think might be relevant. It sometimes helps to have screenshots to better understand what you are trying to do. 

 

Regards,

Anurag 

DNelson3-NewcomerAuthor
3-Newcomer
July 17, 2026

I haven’t gotten any answers to this technical problem from PTC Support, and our sales reps go silent when I bring up the topic, and obviously no answers from the community either. I don’t know where to go from here. Our Mathcad Prime licenses that we paid for DO NOT WORK CORRECTLY and no one is helping.

24-Ruby III
July 19, 2026

Check the contents of your license file. Apparently, it contains both Commercial and Home Use licensed features.