Starting up ANSYS

ANSYS can create rather large files when running and saving; be sure that your local drive has space for it.

In the Mec E 3-3 lab, there are two ways that you can start up ANSYS:

Starting up ANSYS in Windows NT is simple:

Starting the Unix version of ANSYS involves a few more steps:

in the task bar at the bottom of the screen, you should see something labeled X-Win32. If you don't see this minimized program, you can may want to reboot the computer, as it automatically starts this application when booting.
right click on this menu and selection Sessions and then select Mece.
you will now be prompted to login to GPU... do this.
once the Xwindows emulator has started, you will see an icon at the bottom of the screen that looks like a paper and pencil; don't select this icon, but rather, click on the up arrow above it and select Terminal
a terminal command window will now start up
in that window, type xansys57
at the UNIX prompt and a small launcher menu will appear.
select the Run Interactive Now menu item.