Installation:  License Agreement

Read the license agreement, and if you agree, click "I Agree" to accept the terms.  You must accept the terms of the license agreement to continue with the installation.

Installation:  Platform Selection

Choose the platform types you want to install on the local machine. You can choose as many platforms as you wish.  The platform on which you launched the installation will be selected by default and will be shown at the bottom of the window.    

When you run a platform install (i.e., install another platform's version onto the current system), all necessary files are installed.  You can then mount to that installation from the appropriate platform.  However, you may still need to run platform-specific configuration procedures from that platform before running an ANSYS, Inc. product.

Installation:  Directory Specification

Accept the default or specify an alternate path where the ANSYS, Inc. product is to be installed (the Install Directory).

You can choose to have file extensions associated with the appropriate ANSYS program. Associating file extensions allows you to open the files with the appropriate program by double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer. We recommend that you allow file extension associations.

Installation:  Component Selection

All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed. You can select or deselect any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products; there is no individual product selection for ANSYS Workbench.

If you are installing on multiple platforms, the components listed represent all available components for the platforms you selected earlier.  Not all components are available on all platforms or with all products.  

See the section on Installation Prerequisites in the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Guides for details on product and platform support.

Installation:  Teamcenter

If you selected Teamcenter from the ANSYS PDM Interfaces, you will have to specify the path to the Teamcenter Engineering installation directory and enter the Teamcenter Discriminator. The Teamcenter Discriminator is a client-defined identifier for a session. Alternatively, you can skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

Installation:  AutoCAD

If you selected AutoCAD as one of your CAD products, you will have to choose which AutoCAD product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

Installation:  CATIA v5 Installation

If you selected CATIA v5 and any product that includes ANSYS Workbench, you will be required to select the appropriate CAD plugin for ANSYS Workbench. You can choose to configure Spatial, Capri, or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

Installation:  Autodesk Inventor Installation

If you selected Inventor as one of your CAD products, you will have to choose which Inventor product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

Installation:  NX Installation

If you selected NX, you will have to choose which NX product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

If you choose the Workbench Associative Interface and the UGII environment variables were not set, you may need to specify the NX installation path for an existing NX installation. If you are an administrative user, a file required to load the NX plug-in is placed in the Administrative user's Application Data folder by default, which may not be accessible by other, non-administrative users. To allow non-administrative users to run, you will need to define the environment variable UGII_CUSTOM_DIRECTORY_FILE prior to installation and specify a location where other users have read access. Alternatively, you can run the CAD Configuration Manager after the installation and provide an updated location for the NX Custom Directory File Path under the NX tab.

If you selected the ANSYS ICEM CFD NX Interface product but not the NX Geometry Interface product on the product selection screen, you may need to specify the NX installation path or choose to skip configuring NX and use the CAD Configuration Manager to configure later.

Installation:  Creo Parametric (Pro/ENGINEER) Installation

If you selected Creo Parametric, you will have to choose which Creo Parametric product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager). 

If you choose the Workbench Associative Interface, you may need to specify the Creo Parametric language, the Creo Parametric command, and the full Creo Parametric installation path (C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 1.0\Parametric by default) for an existing Creo Parametric installation. 

Installation:  SolidWorks Installation

If you selected SolidWorks as one of your CAD products, you will have to choose which SolidWorks product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager).

Installation:  Solid Edge Installation

If you selected Solid Edge as one of your CAD products, you will have to choose which Solid Edge product to configure. You can choose the Reader (non-associative), Workbench Associative Interface (requires that the CAD product be installed), or skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager).

Installation:  SpaceClaim Direct Modeler Installation

If you selected SpaceClaim Direct Modeler as one of your CAD products, you can chose to skip and configure later (using the CAD Configuration Manager).

Installation: Licensing File Date Verification

If no conflicts are found between the licensing files on the installation media and the files already on your machine from a previous installation, you can proceed. If the date verification finds a conflict, details of the conflict appear. If no conflicts are found, click the Next arrow.

Installation:  Summary

This window shows the installation data specified, including platform, installation directory, and products. Review the information carefully, and if correct, click the Next arrow to continue the installation and begin installing files. If necessary, click Back to return to a previous step to make any corrections.

Installation:  In Progress

The selected products and components are now being installed and configured on your system. When the installation is complete, click Exit.

Installation:  Complete and Review

The installation is now complete. Click the Next arrow.

Installation:  Take Survey

To take the survey, verify that the default browser command is correct for your system.  If it is not, enter the full path to your browser command and click the Next arrow to begin the survey.  If you are installing multiple platforms, you only need to fill out the survey once.   Although the survey is optional, ANSYS, Inc. will use the information collected to better meet our customers' computing needs.  To bypass the survey, click Finish.

Installation:  Client License Server Specification

ANSYS license administration is controlled from one or more computers on your network called license server machines. Before ANSYS products can be run, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager must be installed and running on them. There is a separate installation to install the license manager on license server machines.

The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager controls access to all ANSYS licenses. It monitors what ANSYS products are being run, who is running them, and from what computer system. It grants or denies permission to run products. When an ANSYS product begins, the product requests permission to execute from a license server. The server checks the pool of available license tasks and grants the request only if the required license tasks are available. For each request that is granted, the required license tasks are removed from the pool. As each ANSYS product execution ends, these license tasks are returned to the pool of available license tasks.

The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager consists of two components:

   - The ANSYS Licensing Interconnect component
   - The FlexNet licensing component

The details for your company's licensing system should be entered into the fields of the 'Enter License Server Specification' product installation page.

A port number specifies the communications channel by which two or more processes can communicate. ANSYS uses 2325 as the default port number for the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect and 1055 as the default port number for the FlexNet component of the license manager. If your company has encountered a conflict in port numbers and is not using these default ports, you will need to specify the correct values so that the required licensing connection can be established to allow the required communications to occur when you run ANSYS products. 

Your company's licensing system may be configured to be either a single-server or a three-server (redundant triad) setup. In a one-server licensing system, if the server machine goes down, the licenses are no longer available for use until the server machine is back in service. In a three-server system, as long as two of the three machines are still running the license manager, the licenses are still available for use. 

To enter these specifications at a later time, you can enable the 'Skip this step and configure later' option.

Your company may have chosen to set up multiple licensing systems to administer its ANSYS licenses. If so and you will be using licenses from more than one licensing system, you may enter the information for additional licensing systems through the ANSLIC_ADMIN Utility's 'Specify the License Server Machine' option.

If you are performing a network, file server, or platform installation, please click Installation Help located along the bottom of the installation start screen.

For additional details about ANSYS, Inc. licensing, please reference the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide for your platform (Windows/Linux). 

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