Running Discovery from the Command Line

Ansys Discovery supports command-line arguments you can include when launching Discovery from a command line or terminal prompt. All command-line arguments are case-insensitive.

Command-line syntax

discovery.exe <options>

It is good practice to put quotation marks around the path to the solver executable and around the full path to the project. This ensures that spaces in the path or project are not an issue.

Discovery supports the command-line arguments that appear in the table below.

Option Description Value
--exit-after-script Specifies the application should exit when script (defined by the --run-script option) is finished.
-h, --help Shows usage information.
--hidden Hides main window at start-up.
-l, --locale Specifies the country code (for example, fr for French) of the language to be used in the UI.

Country codes:

  • Chinese Simplified - zh-Hans
  • Chinese Traditional - zh-Hant
  • French - fr
  • German - de
  • Japanese - ja

Example: -l de to use German in the UI.
--mipassword The password used to connect to a Granta MI materials database. String
--miport The port used to connect to a Granta MI materials database. Integer
--miusername The username used to connect to a Granta MI materials database. String
--no-addins Prevents loading of addins.
-o, --open Project to open at start-up. File path
-p, --license-prefs The preferred license to use. String
--run-script Script file to run. File path
--script-api Script API version when used with the --run-script option. Integer
--script-args Script arguments as a semicolon-separated list. Example: --script-args "arg1;arg2;arg3"
--script-async Boolean value indicating whether to run script asynchronously.
--script-throw Throws an error on exception while running the script file.
--skip-hardware-compatibility-checks Skips all hardware compatibility checks. Use with caution: disabling checks may cause the application to become unstable or crash.
--temp Overrides the temporary directory used by the application. Directory
--use-legacy-translator Switches the CATIA V5, CREO Parametric, IGES, NX, Rhino, Solid Edge, SOLIDWORKS, and STEP translators to using the legacy translators.