Troubleshooting

This section provides an FAQ for common problems that occur when using the TC-Toolbox for MATLAB^®.

Diagnostics Script

If you have problems running TC-Toolbox, run the diagnostics script below.

%{
    Run this script when troubleshooting TC-Toolbox

    It is important to run this script EXACTLY the same way as you run your MATLAB script

%}

clc

toolbox_version = "2024a";


disp("Testing TC-Toolbox toolbox_version: " + toolbox_version)
disp('Please make sure that the variable "toolbox_version" above, matches the release that you want to test, if not change it and re-run this script.')

% below this line, nothing needs to be manually updated.

[matlab_version, matlab_release_data] = version;
fprintf("\n")
disp("MATLAB version: " + matlab_version)
fprintf("\n")


tc_env_variable = 'TC' + extractBetween(toolbox_version, 3, 5).upper() + '_HOME';
if isempty(getenv(tc_env_variable))
    fprintf(2, 'No Thermo-calc environment variable for ' + toolbox_version + ' was found. (' + tc_env_variable + ')\n')
else
    disp(getenv(tc_env_variable))
end
fprintf("\n")

disp('Url of license server: (if license server is NO-NET, you need a local license file)')
if isempty(getenv("LSHOST"))
    disp('No Thermo-calc license server url was found. (LSHOST)')
else
    disp(getenv("LSHOST"))
end
fprintf("\n")

disp('Path to local license file: (only necessary if not using license server)')
if isempty(getenv("LSERVRC"))
    disp('No path to local license file was found. (LSERVRC)')
else
    disp(getenv("LSERVRC"))
end
fprintf("\n")

try
    session = tc_toolbox.TCToolbox();
catch e
    fprintf(2,'TC-Toolbox not properly installed !!!\n%s\n', e.message);
end

fprintf("\n")
disp('Lists the databases: (should be a complete list of the installed databases that you have license for or do not require license)')
disp(transpose(session.get_databases()))

fprintf(1, 'Make sure no error messages were printed !\n\n')