To obtain an ICM license (either trial of full) please follow these steps:

You can choose either a nodelocked or floating license. A nodelocked license will be for a single machine whereas a floating license will be placed on a server and can be accessed from any machine connected to that server.

1. Go to our support page.
2. Enter your login information or go here to register with us.
3. Click on downloads
4. Select which platform
5. Select ICM (Full Package) - follow the download instructions and remember to generate the hostid (see below).
6. Click on the hostid link - the first instruction in the installation guide (windows) or follow the instructions on the website (Linux/SGI). If you would like a floating license follow the instructions for floating license and send the IP address or name of the server in addition to the FlexLM id.
7. Send key to andy@molsoft.com or info@molsoft.com
8. A license will be sent to you by E mail usually as an attachment. Follow the instructions on www.molsoft.com/support on where to save the license.

Starting ICM in Windows

There are several ways to start ICM under Windows, including the following:

1. Click the Start button on the taskbar, then select Programs/Molsoft/ICM
2. Double-click the file with one of the ICM extensions, including pdb files (--*.pdb ) icm projects and binaries ( *.icb ), and other ICM file types.
3. Create a shortcut to the ICM binary and click the
4. Start a command prompt window and type the path the ICM binary, usually it is C:\Program Files\Molsoft LLC\ICM\icm.exe -g . In this case you can start ICM with different options.

Starting ICM in Unix

Under a UNIX platform your executables will reside in the $ICMHOME directory.

$ICMHOME is an environmental variable of your UNIX shell and it needs to be set to the actual location of the icm files. The installation procedure does tell you to what value the ICMHOME variable needs to be set.

Examples:

 /usr/icm/icm -X   # returns

 /usr/icm/icm -g   # -g GUI interface will be displayed

 /usr/icm/icm -h   # help

 /usr/icm/icm -bio -g # starts ICM-bio program with gui

 /usr/icm/icm -G  # GUI interface will be displayed with a separate window for the ICM command language terminal.

Once you are in ICM you can spawn another window by choosing File/New ICM Window .

In this case if you close the main ICM window, all the children will be closed too.

Activating the Graphical User Interface

If you are running ICM in Windows then the graphical user interface will be displayed automatically.

However in Unix the GUI version of ICM can be activated by typing icm -g or icm -G and hitting RETURN. Or, to start the graphical user interface from the ICM command line, simply type gui.