FlexSim Feature Limitations by License Type

This table is meant as a reference and guideline. While we strive to maintain this list regularly, it may be out of date at any given time.If an advertised feature of FlexSim is not listed here, it is generally not subject to limitations by license type.

The Express license type is FlexSim's default, unlicensed state. Downloading and installing FlexSim to a new computer, it will be in Express mode. The other license types require you to obtain a license and apply it to the software. Please refer to FlexSim's end user license agreement for details on allowed uses, restrictions, and other considerations. If you wish to test a particular license type, please contact your local distributor to request a test license.

	Express	Runtime	Student	Educational	Enterprise
Allowed Uses	testing, evaluation, and model viewer only	run only (no model building)	educational use only	educational use only	any
Open, Run, Save
open and run any size model	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
open and save models in XML format			✔	✔	✔
unlocked random streams		✔	✔	✔	✔
compile models built with C++ (optional, requires Visual Studio)		✔	✔	✔	✔
save model size limitations	model size must be under limitations	none	model size must be under limitations	none	none
experimenter		✔	✔	✔	✔
OptQuest optimizer		with OptQuest add-on license	up to 10 optimization variables	with OptQuest add-on license	with OptQuest add-on license
webserver (requires separate download)	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Model Building
model building features available	✔	no ability to add objects or activities, but any objects and activities used by existing models are editable	✔	✔	✔
create objects and activities	✔		✔	✔	✔
object creation limit	30		100	none	none
process flow activity creation limit	35		250	none	none
execute FlexScript in script console			✔	✔	✔
tree view			✔	✔	✔
Tool Box
Add Tools	✔	no ability to add tools, but all tools used by existing models are editable	✔	✔	✔
FlowItem Bin	✔		✔	✔	✔
Global Tables	✔		✔	✔	✔
Time Tables	✔		✔	✔	✔
MTBF/MTTR	✔		✔	✔	✔
Down Behavior	✔		✔	✔	✔
Dashboards	✔		✔	✔	✔
Groups	✔		✔	✔	✔
Process Flow (all options)	✔		✔	✔	✔
Global List (all options)	✔		✔	✔	✔
Statistics - Statistics Collector	✔		✔	✔	✔
Statistics - Milestone Collector	✔		✔	✔	✔
Statistics - Calculated Table	✔		✔	✔	✔
Statistics - Experimenter			✔	✔	✔
Statistics - Tracked Variable			✔	✔	✔
FlowItem (all options)	✔		✔	✔	✔
Modeling Logic (all options)			✔	✔	✔
Visual - Model Floor	✔		✔	✔	✔
Visual - Model Background	✔		✔	✔	✔
Visual - Video Recorder			✔	✔	✔
Visual - Fly Path			✔	✔	✔
Connectivity - Database Connector	✔		✔	✔	✔
Connectivity - Excel Import/Export	✔		✔	✔	✔
Connectivity - Visio Import			✔	✔	✔
Connectivity - Emulation (Modbus and OPC DA connections only. Other connection types require an Emulation license.)	✔		✔	✔	✔

David Chan commented · May 03, 2019 at 02:48 AM

@Ben Wilson This is very helpful. How can I "Like" this article? I can't find the Thumbs up?

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ David Chan commented · May 03, 2019 at 02:15 PM

Thanks @david.chan, I hope it will be helpful for everyone.

You can show your support or disapproval for questions, answers, ideas, and articles using the up and down arrows near the top of the post, under the user's gravatar image. See the screen capture to the right:

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David Seo commented · May 02, 2019 at 09:55 PM

@Ben Wilson

It's great!. I need it as a table like this.

Could you upload it as pdf file?

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ David Seo commented · May 02, 2019 at 10:28 PM

Hi @Seung Yong Seo,

Updating and hosting a hard-copy of the table defeats the purpose of having a "living document" that the dev team or others update as necessary, but here are some options you can use to create your own hard-copy from the table above:

CutePDF or other free PDF printers can create a PDF from most any document, including by printing a webpage.
A table-copy browser extension like Table Capture (Chromium-based browsers) or Table To Excel (Firefox) can capture the table and paste into Excel, Google Sheets, or other target programs. Here is a sample xlsx captured using Table To Excel.
A screenshot extension like Voila Web Screenshot (Chromium-based browsers) or Nimbus Screen Capture (Firefox) can capture a scrolling screenshot of the table, which you can share as an image or save to a PDF file. Here is a sample png captured using Voila.
If you don't like browser extensions, your web browser can natively capture a scrolling screenshot of the entire page, out of which you could crop the table.

The best course of action, rather than downloading, archiving, and sharing a hard-copy of this page, is to just send the link to those who might be interested. That way they are always viewing the most up-to-date information, not an out-dated PDF, image, etc.

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Ralf Gruber ♦ commented · Jul 23, 2019 at 03:43 PM

Hi Ben,

maybe you need to add one row for clarification purpose: A client asked me, if the express version is allowed to be used as a model viewer for commercial purpose. They want to use it to:

1. Share models to only "view" them as they are and

2. Use the Express version for model runs within its technical limitations, incl. changing parameters.

So we might want to add "commercial use" as a row?

Thanks

Ralf