Specific to the Linux platform: if you are using a localized operating system (such as French or German), or set your preferences to use regional settings for numbers and dates (comma delimiter versus period), there is a discrepancy between applications: The Workbench application will honor the setting and display the numbers with comma delimiter. However, some of the components (e.g. Geometry, Meshing, Mechanical, etc.) can only recognize periods; numbers will be displayed and entered with periods. As a result, you may have to use commas when working in Workbench, and periods when working within those components. If this causes any inconvenience or confusion, define the "LANG" environment variable and set to "en-us" (e.g. "setenv LANG en-us" for csh shell) to force ALL applications (including Workbench) to use the period delimiter consistently throughout. Note that setting LANG to en-us may also cause some strings to be displayed in English, even if your language preference was set to a non-English language. Within Mechanical, analysis settings for Explicit Dynamics and Rigid Dynamics, as well as Imported Load mapping settings are not localized.

If you are using a localized operating system (such as French or German), you must set the following VisualMainWin control on any machines running these applications in order for these applications to recognize the correct numerical format. Ansys Workbench must already be installed before setting this control.