The software package CHEMCAD is available on the machines of our PC Lab as well on those in the Martin Hall Labs. However, we are providing you with the option to also install it on your own PCs at home or elsewhere.
Please note that you are not required to have your own PCs to run CHEMCAD. The Department will make sure that CHEMCAD is running fine on the PC Lab machines so that your can do the assignments there. However, our agreement with Chemstations (the company that sells CHEMCAD) allows us to make the software available to you for the academic year (the period of our present license) to install on your machines if you are so inclined.
The software can be downloaded from the class BlackBoard website. After downloading the software, run Setupup.exe
After you install CHEMCAD on your machine, you will not at first be able to run it. It will give you a help page and a small window for the license configuration. Go to that window and click on the Sys Auth button. There you will see that you are using a "trial copy" and you will see a System Key that the installation has created for your specific machine. Another box (license key) will be blank. You need to write down the System Key and e-mail it to the class TA. She'll collect the numbers every 1-2 days and e-mail them to Chemstations and get back for you a License Key to enter in the blank box in the configuration window to validate the key. Note that after the System Key has been generated you don't need to keep the CHEMCAD CD while waiting for the License Key. Please note that it is important that you send him the System Key right away after you generate it, because after a few days it may change and then the License key he gets for you will not work and you'll need to ask for another all over again (but you will still not need the installation CD).
Notes by R. A. Adomaitis, Department of Chemical Engineering and ISR, University of Maryland