Once a Mechanical APDL as a Server session is running, it is available for connections from local or remote client applications that have network access to the server machine.

In order to connect to the Mechanical APDL as a Server session, you need access to the IOR string contained in the keyfile generated by the session (Mechanical APDL as a Server Keyfile). Because the keyfile is a text file, any means of copying the file or its contents to a location accessible to the client machine can be used.

You can connect to Mechanical APDL as a Server using clients built with the Mechanical APDL as a Server CORBA interfaces that are supplied as part of the Mechanical APDL as a Server Software Development Kit (SDK).