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1. Purpose of This Guide
2. Installation Prerequisites
3. Product Installation
3.1. Installing Ansys Discovery
3.2. Running Ansys Discovery on a Network
3.3. Uninstalling Ansys Discovery
4. Silent Mode Operations
4.1. Silent Discovery and License Manager Installation
4.1.1. Silent Product Configuration/Unconfiguration
4.1.2. Silent Media Installation
4.1.3. Silent Uninstall
5. Product Licensing
5.1. Discovery Licensing Modes
5.2. Discovery Web-based Licensing
5.3. Discovery Capability Levels and Licensing Requirements
5.4. Setting the Primary and Alternate Licenses for Discovery
5.4.1. Changing the Discovery License Level On Demand
5.4.2. Overriding the Default Ordering of Discovery Licenses
5.4.3. Overriding the Discovery License Preferences at Startup
5.5. Structural Physics Licensing
5.5.1. Floating Licensing for Structural Physics
5.6. Fluids Physics Licensing
5.6.1. Floating Licensing for Fluids Physics
5.7. Electromagnetic Physics Licensing
5.7.1. Floating Licensing for Electromagnetic Physics
5.8. Granta Materials Data for Simulation Licensing
5.9. DesignModeler Licensing
5.10. HPC Requirements
5.11. Unlicensed and Underlicensed Behaviors
5.11.1. Read-only Mode
5.11.2. Underlicensed Behaviors
6. Troubleshooting
6.1. Graphics errors encountered when starting Discovery
6.2. Graphics error after making hardware changes while Discovery is running
6.3. Significant delay encountered when starting Discovery for the first time
6.4. Results fail to appear after solve in Refine stage
6.5. Fidelity slider position changes when project opened on different machine
6.6. Connection to solver cannot be established in Refine stage
6.7. GPU rendering must be manually enabled for Remote Desktop
6.8. Configuring improved performance for Remote Desktop and graphics frame rate
6.9. Discovery fails to launch when run on multi-GPU hardware configuration
6.10. Antivirus tools and Discovery startup time
6.11. Running on a network and Discovery startup time
7. SpaceClaim Installation and Licensing
7.1. Installing SpaceClaim
7.1.1. Downloading the SpaceClaim Installation Package From the Customer Portal
7.1.2. Installing SpaceClaim From the Command Line
7.1.3. Obtaining SpaceClaim as a Component of Another Product
7.2. SpaceClaim Silent Mode Operations
7.3. SpaceClaim Licensing
7.3.1. Overriding the SpaceClaim License Preferences at Startup