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How can I tell when my license expires?

DrLightning
I have OrCAD Capture CIS 16.3 and OrCAD PCB Design 16.3, enabled by the same little USB thing. I suspect my license will expire this month. How can I tell when my license will expire? Thanks
  • Alok Tripathi
    You can find this from debug.log. This file can be found under license manager installation folder. This would tell you if you feature are due to expire soon. You can also get exact expiry date from license.dat file. In that file, the FEATURE string line contains license expiry date. Ex: FEATURE OrCAD_PCB_Editor cdslmd 16.5 08-dec-2011….. here 8-dec-2011 is license expiry date.
  • DrLightning
    Thx. Where do I find any of these files? That is, how do I figure out where the license manager installation folder is, or where the license.dat file is?
  • DrLightning
    C:\Cadence\LicenseManager\license.dat reads EATURE OrCAD_PCB_Designer cdslmd 16.3 25-dec-0000 What does this mean? Never?
  • DrLightning
    ...perhaps not. I just loaded OrCAD Capture and got the message: "OrCAD Capture license was not found. Would you like to launch Capture using demo license? Click the Help button to view the limitations in the demo version of the tool" I checked and the license.dat file is still there. Last month, I did an email reply rather than post, so that message didn't get through. I issued concern that the USB dongle might have a separate expiration date on it. Perhaps now I find that it does. Please help me figure out if I have to have my managers emergency fix this, or if it's just some kind of snafu. I can't afford to be down even a whole day... Thanks very much.
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