Launcher

Various PyMAPDL specific launcher commands. Most of these commands are called from the library `ansys-tools-common.path <ansys_tools_common_>`_.

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-common.path functions

change_default_ansys_path(exe_loc)	Deprecated.
find_mapdl([version, supported_versions])	Search for the Ansys MAPDL path within the standard install location.
save_ansys_path([exe_loc, allow_prompt])	Deprecated.
get_available_ansys_installations([...])	Get a dictionary of available Ansys unified installation versions with their base paths.