Launcher

Various PyMAPDL specific launcher commands. Most of these commands are called from the library ansys-tools-path.

get_default_ansys()	Searches for ansys path within the standard install location and returns the path and version of the latest MAPDL version installed.
get_default_ansys_path()	Searches for ansys path within the standard install location and returns the path of the latest MAPDL version installed.
get_default_ansys_version()	Searches for ansys path within the standard install location and returns the version of the latest MAPDL version installed.
launch_mapdl([exec_file, run_location, ...])	Start MAPDL locally.
close_all_local_instances([port_range])	Close all MAPDL instances within a port_range.

ansys-tools-path functions

change_default_ansys_path(exe_loc)	Deprecated, use change_default_mapdl_path instead
find_mapdl([version, supported_versions])	Searches for Ansys MAPDL path within the standard install location and returns the path of the latest version.
save_ansys_path([exe_loc, allow_prompt])	Deprecated, use save_mapdl_path instead
get_available_ansys_installations([...])	Return a dictionary of available Ansys unified installation versions with their base paths.