General Options: Desktop Configuration

Under General Options, Desktop Configuration options allow you to customize Electronics Desktop in a way that suits your work priorities. These include options for product licensing, menus, new projects, save intervals, and beta features.

Tools Options window with Desktop Configuration selected

The Product Licensing section lists the Electronics Pro, Premium, Enterprise (PPE) product licensing used by Ansys Electronics Desktop. Legacy product licensing and DSO are no longer supported.

With PPE, HPC licensing is used to enable all cores, GPUs, and distributed tasks.

The Desktop Configuration section contains the following: Set targeted configuration, Custom Menu Set, and Schematic Environment.

New Project Options specifies whether a design of a particular type is inserted when you create a new project. For example, if you define EM in Set targeted configuration, the default for Insert a design of type is Maxwell 3D. You can select other options from the drop-down menu, or select the Don't insert a design option. The default is based on the selected targeted configuration.

The Save Options define if autosave is enabled and the interval in edits for autosaving. To enable autosave, select the Do Autosave check box. Set the number of editing actions after which a backup file is automatically saved to your hard drive in the Autosave interval text box. The default is 10. The backup file is given the same name as your project and has an “aedt.auto” file extension.

Beta Options opens a Beta Options window in which you can check any beta options you want to activate. If you have selected any options, when you close the main Options dialog box, Ansys Electronics Desktop will prompt you to restart the desktop application to enable the selected beta features.

Deprecated Features opens a window for activating features that have been deactivated, but not removed from the software.

When all information on Desktop Configuration is defined, select another option under General in the Options dialog or click OK to put your settings into effect.