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_ansys([version, supported_versions])

Obsolete method, use find_mapdl.

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.