This section explains how to install Ansys, Inc. products.
Note: Ansys requires users to install all products by using the right-click option .
To install Ansys, Inc. products, including client licensing, follow the steps below.
Note: You must also install the Ansys, Inc. License Manager on at least one server machine in order to run Ansys, Inc. products. See Ansys License Manager Installation for license manager installation instructions.
Save all data and close all Windows applications before continuing.
If you downloaded the installation files or if you are installing from a DVD or USB with autorun disabled, browse to the location of the setup.exe file. Right-click the setup.exe file and select .
The license agreement appears. Select the language you want to use from the drop-down menu in the upper right corner. English is the default.
Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, select . Click , located on the right side of the screen.
Note: The question mark icon located in the upper right side of each installation screen displays an explanation of the functionality available on that screen. The letter "I" icon displays information about the release version of the installation software.
The directory where you want to install the Ansys, Inc. products is shown in the Install Directory field. You can install the products into any directory you want, but you must have write permissions to the directory you choose. The default is C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc. We recommend using the default directory.
Note: You must install all Ansys, Inc. products into the same location. Installing products into different locations can cause product components to fail. If you choose an install directory via the Browse feature, the installation will automatically append \ANSYS Inc\ to the chosen directory. The installation path can have a maximum of 100 characters, except on AUTODYN, which has a maximum of 40 characters. For a network installation, the same UNC paths or mapped drive letters must be used on the server and all client computers.
Leave the Associate file extensions with Ansys products check box enabled. This allows you to double-click files from Windows Explorer to launch the various products.
If you are using an application that can utilize Ansys QA Services, select the Enable Ansys QA Services with supported applications (QA Service Agreement required) option. Note that the Ansys QA Services option requires a separate Quality Assurance Service Agreement. Do not select this option if you have not obtained a Quality Assurance Service Agreement. For more information on Ansys Quality Services, visit our website at: https://www.ansys.com/About-ANSYS/quality-assurance/quality-assurance-services.
If you specify a network location as the installation directory, you should select the Add .NET security exceptions on the above install directory option. This option allows the .NET binaries that are located under the \ANSYS Inc directory on the shared machine to be run from the network.
To understand the implications of this security exception for .NET, contact your system administrator or see Configuring Security Policy on Microsoft’s website.
Used with network installations, this option allows the .NET binaries that are located under the \ANSYS Inc directory on the shared machine to be run from the network.
Click .
If this is a first time installation, you are prompted to enter your license server specification. If you already have an existing license server specification file, you will not see this window and proceed directly to the next step.
Enter your Ansys Licensing Interconnect port number and your Ansys FlexNet port number. Defaults are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check with your IT department to confirm that the default port numbers are valid or to get different port numbers if necessary.
Specify the hostname for your license server machine(s).
Click .
All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed in a tree view. A checkmark to the left of the product signifies that the product and all related "child" products are enabled for installation while a grey box indicates that some, but not all products are enabled for installation. You can expand the tree to select any additional products you wish to install.
The installation program attempts to query your license server to pre-select your installation options. If the query is successful, the following message is displayed:
Review and change the pre-selected installation options if necessary
If the installation program was unable to query your license server, this message is not displayed and the default installation options are selected.
You can select or deselect any combination of products. Ansys Workbench is automatically installed with most Ansys, Inc. products; there is no individual product selection for Ansys Workbench.
Selecting either the Ansys Additional Tools > Optical Addon > Speos for Creo Parametric or Speos for NX options presents you with additional installation steps. These steps are completed on the SpeosCAD Configuration screen. For additional information on completing these steps, see Configuring Speos CAD Interfaces.
If you are installing Speos and you are willing to use the CAD Connection V3 (through the Block Recording), select the Ansys Geometry Interfaces option.
If you select the Ansys Geometry Interfaces option, you are presented with additional installation steps. These steps are completed on the CAD Configuration screens which are displayed when you click . For additional information on completing these steps, see Specifying CAD Configurations.
An estimate of the disk space required to install all of the selected components, and the disk space you have available is displayed. The actual amount of disk space required may be less, but if you choose to run the installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all products were installed correctly. Installation log files are written to the installation directory.
Note: On a first time installation, if you chose to install any Ansys Geometry Interfaces, ensure that you have also selected at least one Ansys, Inc. product as part of the installation. Installing an Ansys Geometry Interface without an underlying Ansys, Inc. product on a first time installation may cause installation errors.
Select/deselect the products you want to install and click .
The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may already exist on your machine. (This may take a few moments.)
A summary of the selected installation data appears. Review the information carefully, and if correct, click to continue the installation.
The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the installation window. This status bar tracks the percentage of packages that have been installed on your computer. Depending on the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.
Note: Clicking the button opens a second window that displays the name of each product package as it is uncompressed and installed.
The installation program will first check your system to determine if you have the necessary prerequisites. If the prerequisites are not already on your system, the prerequisites will be installed automatically.
Note: If prerequisite components necessary for the installation of the Ansys products were installed, depending on your existing machine configuration, the following message may be displayed:
Software prerequisites have been installed.
A system restart is may be required after exiting the installation and before using any Ansys Products.
If a system restart is required, a restart error message will be written to the install.err error file. The install.err error file is located in the installation directory.
Click to continue the installation.
The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the installation is complete.
Links are provided to access the Intel MPI and Microsoft MPI installation programs and installation documentation.
A option is included here. Clicking while the is enabled causes your default browser to open, displaying the product survey. Disabling (un-checking) the option and then clicking skips the survey.
To complete a network installation (where the product is installed on one machine and multiple clients access that installation to run the product) to a file server machine, follow the steps below. A network installation must be homogeneous, although you can install on different operating systems.
Install the product(s) to be shared in a location that all clients can access. Install all platforms that this machine will host as described in Product Installation with Client Licensing.
You must share the entire \ANSYS Inc directory, not just the \v242 directory. If mapping a drive to the shared location, it must be mapped to the \ANSYS Inc folder.
Open the Product & CAD Configuration Manager (\\
fileservermachine\ANSYS Inc\v242\ProductConfig.exe). Select . You must be logged in as an administrative user to install the prerequisites. This step must be completed on all client Windows systems.A configuration status screen appears. This screen displays the required prerequisite installation process. Once the process is complete, click Exit. The Product & CAD Configuration Manager remains open.
On each Windows client, update the .NET security settings. By default, the .NET Framework prevents applications from being run over a network. In order to install over a network, each Windows client that accesses the shared directory requires a modification to its security settings. This modification allows the .NET binaries that are located under the \ANSYS Inc directory on the shared machine to be run from the network. To make this modification from the Product & CAD Configuration Manager, select . You must have administrative privileges to modify the security policy.
To understand the implications of this security exception for .NET, contact your system administrator or see Configuring Security Policy on Microsoft’s website.
If you are sharing the Mechanical APDL product, edit the tlbrlist242.ans file, located in \v242\ansys\gui\en-us\toolbars on the Windows file server. The file should read as follows:
\\
fileservermachine\ANSYS Inc\v242\ansys\gui\en-us\toolbars\ANSYSSTANDARD.TLB \\fileservermachine\ANSYS Inc\v242\ansys\gui\en-us\toolbars\ANSYSABBR.TLB \\fileservermachine\ANSYS Inc\v242\ansys\gui\en-us\toolbars\ANSYSGRAPHICAL.TLBFor all types of network installations, from each client Windows machine, you will need to run ProductConfig.exe. If the Product & CAD Configuration Manager has been closed, reopen it as described above.
Select .
Select the products and CAD options you want to configure. Click .
Note: CFD-Post is automatically configured when CFX, Fluent, Polyflow, or Icepak is configured, or if CFD-Post is selected.
An informational message box appears as each product is configured.
All operations and error messages that are encountered while using the product and CAD configuration (or unconfiguration) option are written to the productConfig.txt file in the %TEMP% directory of the client machine. No log files are written to the machine that is hosting ProductConfig.exe.
Note: ProductConfig.exe can also be run in batch mode using the ‘-silent' flag, which may be useful for automating configuration for multiple systems or across a Microsoft Windows HPC cluster. For more information see Silent Mode Operations.
If you selected any CAD options, your will need to complete additional configuration steps. These steps are completed on the CAD Configuration screen which is displayed when you click . For additional information on completing these steps, see Specifying CAD Configurations.
When the configuration is completed, you will see shortcuts to each product in Windows under .
Unconfigure — To unconfigure products or CAD options that have previously been shared, use the following procedure:
From each client machine, in Windows 10 and 11 (> Product & CAD Configuration 2024 R2).
Select .
Select the products and CAD options you want to unconfigure and click . When unconfiguring products, be aware that WB/Common should be unconfigured last, after all other products are unconfigured. If you are unconfiguring some but not all products, do NOT unconfigure WB/Common, or your remaining products will not run correctly.
CFD-Post — CFD-Post can be configured as a standalone product; however, as a standalone product, it is also automatically configured with Fluent, Polyflow, and Icepak. To unconfigure CFD-Post, you must select all of these products to unconfigure, regardless if they are configured locally.
If you choose to unconfigure standalone CFD-Post without unconfiguring the other products, you will not be able to proceed with the unconfigure. You will need to revise your selections before continuing.
If you choose to unconfigure all of the other products that include CFD-Post but you do not select CFD-Post, then CFD-Post will not be unconfigured.
The user interface billboard displays the status of each product as it is unconfigured. The shortcuts to each product are now removed.
Selecting the Ansys Geometry Interfaces option, from the product selection screen and clicking displays a series of configuration screens for your geometry interfaces.
On the first screen, you are asked to select one of the following three configuration options:
Selecting the Yes, automatically configure my interfaces option and clicking Next determines if each CAD system is installed on your computer. If the CAD is installed, this option sets the configuration to appropriate associative interface. If the CAD is not installed, the configuration is set to reader. After you make this selection, the installation continues as described in the Product Installation with Client Licensing step #9.
Selecting the Yes, I will make my selections option and clicking Next walks you through a several manual configuration steps. If you select this option, you can configure the appropriate geometry interface properties by following the steps described below.
Selecting the No. Skip configuration. I will configure later option and clicking Next ignores the geometry interface configuration at this time. After you make this selection, the installation continues as described in the Product Installation with Client Licensing step #9. You can use this option if you have not yet installed the related CAD programs, or do not know the requested information. If you skip these steps, you will need to manually configure these geometry interfaces using the Product & CAD Configuration Manager before you can successfully import models into Ansys products. See Configuring CAD Products for more information on using the Product & CAD Configuration Manager.
After selecting the Yes, I will make my selections option and clicking Next (bullet point #2 above), you are presented with a check list of the geometry interfaces. You can manually choose which geometry interfaces you would like to configure by enabling the appropriate check box(es). Note that the configuration is not performed for any geometry interface check box that is disabled. You will have to do that at a later time by following the steps in the Configuring CAD Products section.
When you have selected the appropriate interfaces, click Next.
The next screen the provides you with the option of selecting the reader or associative interface for each enabled geometry interface.
Configure each geometry interface option and click Next.
If you selected the associative interface for Creo Parametric or NX, a third screen is displayed. In this case follow the steps below. If you did not select Creo Parametric or NX the installation continues as described in the Product Installation with Client Licensing step #9.
Creo Parametric
You may need to specify the Creo Parametric command, and the full Creo Parametric installation path (C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 6.0.0.0\Parametric by default) for an existing Creo Parametric installation.
NX
If you choose the associative interface and the UGII environment variables were not set, you may need to specify the NX installation path for an existing NX installation. If you are an administrative user, a file required to load the NX plug-in is placed in the administrative user's Application Data folder by default, which may not be accessible by other, non-administrative users. To allow non-administrative users to run, you will need to define the environment variable UGII_CUSTOM_DIRECTORY_FILE prior to installation and specify a location where other users have read access. Alternatively, you can run the Product & CAD Configuration Manager after the installation and provide an updated location for the NX Custom Directory File Path.
Once you have completed the Creo Parametric or NX configuration, click Next. The installation continues as described in the Product Installation with Client Licensing step #9.
Selecting the Ansys Additional Tools > Optical Addon > Speos for Creo Parametric or Speos for NX options from the product selection screen and clicking displays an interactive configuration screen for your Speos CAD interfaces.
Note: If you have selected the Geometry Interfaces option in addition to any Speos CAD Interface option and clicked Next, the geometry interface configuration screens are displayed before the Speos CAD Interface configuration screens.
From the list of Speos CAD Interfaces displayed, select the check boxes that appropriately reflect your system. You must select at least one interface to continue the installation.
As you select a checkbox, an Installation Path field is displayed. Click Browse and locate the folder containing the existing CAD installation that corresponds to the check box.
Note: The installation program attempts to query your system to determine the path to the appropriate CAD program.. If the installation can find your CAD program, the Installation Path field is prepopulated this information.
Once you have located the appropriate folder, click the Select Folder option.
Perform this process for each Speos CAD Interface you require. Alternatively, you can enable the Skip Speos CAD Configuration option to configure the interfaces at a later time. For more information, see Using the Product & CAD Configuration Manager.
After completing the configuration of the Speos CAD Interfaces, click Next. The installation continues as described in the Product Installation with Client Licensing step #9.
The Ansys Automated Installer does not include the Ansys License Manager installation package. If you are using the Ansys Automated Installer for product installation, log on to the Ansys Customer Portal and download the Ansys License Manager Installation package from Downloads>Current Release>Tools>Ansys License Manager.
Because you will be using a network server, you must install and configure the Ansys, Inc. License Manager on the server machine. The License Manager controls access to the Ansys, Inc. products you have purchased.
Note: It is not necessary to install the Ansys License Manager on the client computers.
On the server machine, navigate to the directory where the installation packages reside. Right-click the setup.exe file and select . The Ansys, Inc. Installation Launcher appears. Click .
You will see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running, it will be shut down. You may safely ignore this message and click .
The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click . Click , located on the right side of the screen.
The directory where the license manager will be installed is shown in the Install Directory field. Accept the default directory and click .
Note: You are unable to change the installation directory for a computer that currently contains an instance of the Ansys, Inc. License Manager or Ansys Electromagnetics License Manager. To change the installation directory location, you must first uninstall any previous versions of both products.
The Ansys, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. As with the product installation, the required and available disk space numbers are shown. Click .
A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager installation, the Ansys, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.
Click . The license manager installation begins.
After the License Manager installation has been completed, the Launch License Management Center upon exiting option is included on the screen. The Ansys License Management Center is a browser-based user interface that centralizes many of the Ansys product licensing administrative functions. If you do not want to launch the License Management Center, clear the Launch License Management Center upon exiting option.
Click to close the License Manager Installation screen.
Click to close the Ansys, Inc. Installation Launcher.
From the machine on which the products were installed, choose to launch the Ansys, Inc. products that you have installed.
If you are a new user who has not received a license file for your server or if you add or change a license server machine, follow this procedure to register your license server information. See the Ansys Licensing Guide for more information on selecting license servers (Selecting License Server Machines) and on using the Ansys License Management Center (License Server Administration Using Ansys License Management Center).
Open the Ansys License Management Center.
Click the option to display your system ID code(s).
Select the system ID you wish to use and click .
A text file containing your system ID information is created.
Forward this text file to your Ansys sales representative so that a license file can be created for you.
Add your license files though the Ansys License Management Center. For these steps, see Adding a License.
After completing the installation process, refer to Post-Installation Instructions