### 1.1.1. Menu Bar

The ANSYS CFX Launcher menus provide the following capabilities:

#### 1.1.1.1. File Menu

Saves the contents of the text output window and to close the ANSYS CFX Launcher.

##### 1.1.1.1.1. Save As

Saves the contents of the output window to a file.

##### 1.1.1.1.2. Quit

Shuts down the ANSYS CFX Launcher. Any programs already launched will continue to run.

#### 1.1.1.2. Edit Menu

Clears the text output window, finds text in the text output window and sets options for the ANSYS CFX Launcher.

##### 1.1.1.2.1. Clear

Clears the output window.

##### 1.1.1.2.2. Find

Displays a dialog box where you can search the text in the output window.

##### 1.1.1.2.3. Options

Presents the Options dialog box, which enables you to change the appearance of the ANSYS CFX Launcher.

###### 1.1.1.2.3.1. User Interface Style

You can choose any one of several user interface styles; each style is available on all platforms. For example, choosing `Windows` will change the look and feel of the user interface to resemble that of a Windows application. You can select from Windows, Motif, CDE (Solaris), Plastique, and Cleanlooks styles. Once you have selected a style, click Apply to test.

###### 1.1.1.2.3.2. Application Font and Text Window Font

The button to the right of Application Font sets the font used anywhere outside the text output window. The button to the right of Text Window Font applies only to the text output window. Clicking either of these buttons opens the Select Font dialog box.

#### 1.1.1.3. CFX Menu

Enables you to launch CFX-Pre, CFX-Solver Manager, CFD-Post, and, if they are installed, other CFX products (such as ANSYS TurboGrid).

##### 1.1.1.3.1. CFX-Pre

Runs CFX-Pre, with the working directory as specified in Working Directory Selector.

##### 1.1.1.3.2. CFX-Solver Manager

Runs CFX-Solver Manager, with the working directory as specified in Working Directory Selector.

##### 1.1.1.3.3. CFD-Post

Runs CFD-Post, in the current working directory as specified in Working Directory Selector.

##### 1.1.1.3.4. Other CFX Applications

The ANSYS CFX Launcher also searches for other CFX applications (for example, ANSYS TurboGrid) and provides a menu entry to launch the application. If an application is not found, you can add it; for details, see Customizing the ANSYS CFX Launcher.

#### 1.1.1.4. Show Menu

Enables you to show system, installation, and other information.

##### 1.1.1.4.1. Show Installation

Displays information about the version of CFX that you are running.

##### 1.1.1.4.2. Show All

Displays all of the available information, including information about your system, installation, and variables.

##### 1.1.1.4.3. Show System

Displays information about the CFX installation and the system on which it is being run.

##### 1.1.1.4.4. Show Variables

Displays the values of all the environment variables that are used in CFX.

#### 1.1.1.5. Tools Menu

Enables you to access license-management tools and a command line for running other CFX utilities.

##### 1.1.1.5.1. ANSYS Client Licensing Utility

Enables you to configure connections to ANSYS License Managers.

##### 1.1.1.5.2. Command Line

Starts a command window from which you can run any of the CFX commands via the command line interface. The command line will be set up to run the correct version of CFX and the commands will be run in the current working directory.

If you do not use the Tools > Command Line command to open a command window, then you will have to either type the full path of the executable in each command, or explicitly set your operating system path to include the <CFXROOT>/bin directory.

You may want to start components of CFX from the command line rather than by clicking the appropriate button on the ANSYS CFX Launcher for the following reasons:

- CFX contains some utilities (for example, a parameter editor) that can be run only from the command line.

- You may want to specify certain command line arguments when starting up a component so that it starts up in a particular configuration.

- If you are having problems with a component, you may be able to get a more detailed error message by starting the component from the command line than you would get if you started the component from the launcher. If you start a component from the command line, any error messages produced are written to the command line window.

##### 1.1.1.5.3. Configure User Startup Files (Linux only)

Information about creating startup files can be found in the installation documentation.

##### 1.1.1.5.4. Edit File

Opens a platform-native text editor. Which text editor is opened is controlled by the settings in <CFXROOT>/etc/launcher/shared.ccl.

##### 1.1.1.5.5. Edit Site-wide Configuration File

Opens the site-wide configuration file in a text editor. Which text editor is called is controlled by the settings in <CFXROOT>/etc/launcher/CFX5.ccl.

#### 1.1.1.6. User Menu

The User menu is provided as an example. You can add your own applications to this menu, or create new menus; for details, see Customizing the ANSYS CFX Launcher.

#### 1.1.1.7. Help Menu

The Help menu has the following commands:

CFX-Launcher

  Opens CFX-Launcher help (this chapter), which describes the launcher interface as well as how to customize the launcher to, for example, add a menu entry that runs your own application.

CFX

  You can select various topics including Contents, which will open up help documentation that describes the CFX documentation set, Tutorials, and several topics.

About CFX-Launcher

  This gives the point releases and software patches that are installed.

Help on Help

  Opens documentation about the help system: Help On Help

Guidance on accessing CFX documentation is provided in Accessing Help.

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