Launching Ansys Electronics Desktop

Follow the instructions below to launch Ansys Electronics Desktop in either Windows or Linux.

Windows:

Once you have installed Ansys Electronics Desktop, start the program using one of the following methods:

• From the Start menu, select Ansys EM Suite 2025 R2 > Ansys Electronics Desktop 2025 R2.

If the program fails to start, ensure that:

• You have installed the licensing option provided to you. For detailed information on installing the software and licenses, see: Ansys EM Suite Installation. This topic provides links to the Ansys installation guides (Windows and Linux) and product-specific platform support information.
• Ansys QA Services are not enabled. To disable, change the value of the ENABLE_ANSYS_QA_SERVICES environment variable to 0.

Linux:

On Linux systems, an interactive Ansys Electronics Desktop session can be launched either from the command line, or from a GNOME-compliant desktop environment. The graphical session must be running directly on the machine's console or via a remote connection like VNC.

Launching AEDT from the command line:

When AEDT is installed, a sub-directory is created under the installation directory: /v252/AnsysEM/. This directory contains the software executable files and wrapper scripts.

To launch AEDT from the command line, invoke it via its wrapper script. If, for example, AEDT has been installed in the /opt/ansys_inc/ directory, the wrapper would be:

• /opt/ansys_inc/v252/AnsysEM/ansysedt

When this command is run for the first time on a machine, messages will be printed to the terminal as the software automatically configures itself. AEDT will then launch.

Starting from GNOME desktop:

• Click the Activities button on the GNOME panel to show installed applications:

  

• Click the icon for Ansys EM: