| License Type | Typical Limit (DOFs) | | --- | --- | | Teaching (Student) | ~512 to 2,000 nodes/elements | | Research (e.g., CFD R2) | ~512,000 cells/nodes | | Professional | ~1–2 million DOFs | | Enterprise / Premium | Unlimited (or very high) |

Open the ANSYS License Management Center . Under the "View Status" or "License File" tabs, you can see the specific features (increments) enabled.

If you are on a network with multiple license types (e.g., both Teaching and Research tokens available), ANSYS may default to the lower-tier license. Force a higher-tier license: