You may run your program directly from the command line started from the Ansys CFX Launcher (Tools > Command Line). Such a command line will have the environment variables and path set appropriately.
Important: It is important to run the command line in the CFX environment. For details, see Command Line in the CFX Reference Guide.
For the purposes of describing what you can do, assume that the executable
file is called myexport and is contained in the directory
/home/smith/export/ (UNIX) or
c:\smith\export (Windows). You want to
specify the results file called file.res in the same
directory and make the basename example.
To run the program directly on a UNIX system, open a command line started from the Ansys CFX Launcher (Tools > Command Line) and call your program using:
./myexport file.res example
assuming that the current directory is /home/smith/export/.
On a Windows machine, run the program by opening a command line started from the Ansys CFX Launcher (Tools > Command Line), changing directory to c:\smith\export, and typing:
myexport file.res example
Note: Just double-clicking on the name of the program in the Windows
Explorer, or using the Execute
myexport.exe option in Microsoft Developer Studio
does not readily give you the option to enter command-line
arguments.
Your executable can be run directly from the command line by using the cfx5export command. This enables you to issue an export command without specifying the location of the executable each time; an environment variable remembers the location of the custom export executable.
For the purposes of describing the procedure, assume the executable file is
called myexport and is contained in the directory
/home/smith/export/ (UNIX) or
c:\smith\export (Windows). Specify the
results file called file.res in the same directory and make
the basename example.
To run the program using the cfx5export -custom command,
add the following line to the .cfx5rc file:
CFX_EXPORT_EXEC="<executable_path>"
where <executable_path> is the full path and
name of the executable (for example,
/home/smith/export/myexport or
c:\smith\export\myexport as
appropriate). For details, see Resources Set in cfx5rc Files in the CFX Introduction.
The cfx5export command can be used with the custom argument for the given example. Type:
cfx5export -custom file.res example
into a UNIX terminal or a suitable Windows command prompt and press Return or Enter. For details, see Command Line in the CFX Reference Guide.