Article - CS30157
Error “FLEXnet licensing error: -10, Feature has expired” when starting PTC Flex-enabled applications
Modified: 12-Nov-2025
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Mathcad 14.0 to 15.0
- Mathcad Prime 1.0 to 11.0
- Creo Direct 1.0 to 7.0
- PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0 to 8.2
- PTC Arbortext Styler 6.0 to 8.2
- Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess 7.0 to 7.3
- Creo View 1.0 to 10.1
- PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 7.0 to 9.1
- Creo Illustrate 1.0 to 12.1
- PTC License Server
Description
- Error when starting PTC Flex-enabled applications:
- FLEXnet licensing error: -10, Feature has expired
- Creo View, Creo Parametric, or Creo Illustrate will not run and shows a startup window with error message:
- Feature has expired
- Getting the error Message:
- Flexnet Licensing error: -10,32
The license request failed. Requesting license (-10) Feature has expired
- Flexnet Licensing error: -10,32
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