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Table of Contents
Prerequisites for Installing the Campus Solutions Bundle with CMC License Management
System (LMS)
System Requirements
Setting Up CADpass for Use With ANSYS CAD Suite
Obtaining the ANSYS Software
Installing the ANSYS Software
Troubleshooting Your Installation
Other Tricks and Tips
References and Resources to Get You Started

Note: This Quick Start Guide is provided to help subscribers with CAD modules in the ANSYS Campus Solutions
bundle. It refers to the Multiphysics suite only. These instructions are for a Windows 10, 64-bit operating system,
and are intended for new subscribers who have never installed ANSYS CAD tools before.

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Before you begin with this installation, you must:

Register with CMC Microsystems. Students and faculty can register with CMC at: https://account.cmc.ca
/en/MyAccount/MyAccount.aspx .
Have a subscription with CMC if you are faculty, or you must belong to a research group supervised by an
appropriately subscribed faculty member. Faculty can subscribe through the CMC subscription page
at:https://www.cmc.ca/subscriptions/ .
Complete all applicable access agreements listed at:https://www.cmc.ca/tools/ .
Have a unique login name (LINUX or Windows) that does not contain a blank space. The following are
examples of unacceptable login names: admin or administrator, cmcmgr, root, stcmgr, super, sysadm,
user, owner, student, guest, temp, and system.

The following link provides recommendations from the technical staff at ANSYS for making the best use of their
software, including the operating system, graphics card, CPU, and other hardware.

Contact us through our support webpage to ask about specific ANSYS hardware recommendations.

For a list of the features in this bundle, see the ANSYS Academic Product Features Matrix and Overview .

Note: Not all modules are available for the supported operating systems (LINUX and Windows), as shown in Table
1.

Table 1: General Feature List for the ANSYS Structural/Fluids/Multiphysics 2019Rx Bundle (January, 2019)

Operating System 3D Geometry and Multiphysics/Fluids: Multiphysics/Structures:

Discovery: Mesh Prep: CFD/CFX, Chemkin, ACP, Autodyn,
AIM, ICEM CFD, FENSAP-ICE, Fluent, Mechanical APDL
SpaceClaim Design Forte
Modeller,
Meshing
Windows 7 or 10, * * * *
Professional or
Enterprise; 64-bit only
RedHat Enterprise
LINUX 7.3 to 7.5 and
* * *
CentOS 7.3 to 7.5;
64-bit only
* Feature is available in this operating system.

1. If you do not have the CMC Microsystems CADpass client loaded onto your workstation, follow the
instructions in the CADpass Quickstart Guide.
CADpass is the CMC Microsystems' license access client, and is used by subscribers across Canada to

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connect to the secure license server(s).

CADpass: A note about the Tunneling Driver: Some of our CAD tools require a secondary piece of
software to be installed from our CADpass application. It is called an "IP Tunneling Driver". This is NOT
necessary for the ANSYS suites, yet is important for some of the other tools. If one of your subscription
CAD tools requires this driver to run properly, then you must set up all of your subscription CAD tools in
the same way (using the specific license server name instead of the generic 'localhost').

The instructions in this guide are based on the assumption that your computer has the tunneling driver
installed. See our CADpass Quickstart Guide for steps to find this driver on your computer.

2. Start CADpass, and then log in using your CMC login Username and Password, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: CADpass Login Window

3. When the CAD access window is displayed, double click the icon ANSYS.
You can also right-click the icon and select Start. A dialog box is displayed, and a green checkmark appears
to the left of the icon, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: ANSYS Icon in CADpass with a License Selected

To obtain the latest ANSYS software from CMC Microsystems:

1. Navigate to the ANSYS download site on the CMC Microsystems website at ANSYS Campus Solutions
downloads .
2. Choose the appropriate version for your operating system.
There are two files to download for the complete Windows Campus Solutions bundle. See Table 2.

Table 2: Files Available for Download (Current ANSYS Multiphysics Release)

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File Name, Type Download Size Archive/Image Contents

(approx.)
ANSYS2019Rx_WINX64.zip 17.7 GB This *.zip image contains installation files for all of the
ANSYS software.

You need to install the following software:

ANSYS Multiphysics Suite

Before installing the ANSYS software:

1. Start CADpass from https://www.cmc.ca/access-with-cadpass-cadactivate/
a. Log in to CADpass with your CMC Username and Password.
b. Double-click the icon ANSYS License Access.
2. Download the ANSYS 2019Rx files.
3. Extract each *.iso image into a separate temporary folder.
The total space required for the archives and extracted files is about 18 GB. If you do not have an extraction
program on your workstation, you can use the free 7-zip utility, which can be found here: 7-Zip.

To install the ANSYS Multiphysics CAD tools (Fluent, Forte, Chemkin, Mechanical APDL, Autodyn,
CFD/CFX):
1. In the first extracted ISO folder (Disk 1), double-click setup.exe.
2. From the first pop-up window, click Install ANSYS Products, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Install ANSYS Products

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3. In the next window, read the CLICKWRAP software license agreement.

4. If you agree to the terms, select I AGREE, and click Next.
5. To learn more about your obligations under this agreement, contact licensing@cmc.ca. Otherwise, click
Exit in the lower right-hand corner to end this installation.
6. In the next window, select your installation directory.
The entire Multiphysics package requires about 35 GB of hard disk space, so choose accordingly.
7. In the next window, specify which parts of the Multiphysics suite you want to install.
The "Campus Solutions" bundle does not include Aqwa, Discovery Live, LS-DYNA or Energico.
8. Click Next> when you have made your selections.
9. If you want to configure your third-party interface, you may do so in the next window. For simplicity, select the
check box Skip all and configure later..., and click Next> to continue, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Skip the Third-party Tool Configuration and Continue with the Installation

10. If you are satisfied with the summary of the installation to be performed, click Next. If you want to make
changes, click Back to return to the previous windows and alter your selections.
Depending upon the number of modules you selected, installation could take half an hour to complete. The
ANSYS installer counts down the time left during your installation, as show in Figure 5.

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Figure 5: The ANSYS Installer Counts Down the Remaining Installation Time

During installation, you are prompted for the second media folder.
11. Browse to the directory path for the second ISO folder (Disk 2) and click OK, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Location of the Second Extracted Disk Image

When the installation has completed, the time remaining drops to zero.
12. Click Next.
The message Installation Complete appears, as shown in Figure 7. Completion of the ANSYS survey is

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optional.

Figure 7: The ANSYS Installation Complete Window

13. Click Exit to close the installer.

To Configure the ANSYS Multiphysics license:>

1. Navigate to Start | Programs | ANSYS 2019 Rx | and right-click ANSYS Client ANSLIC_ADMIN Utility
2019 Rx.
2. Select Run as Administrator.
3. Click the button Specify the License Server Machine.
4. In the License Utility GUI, select Add Server Machine Specification.
5. If you have a tunneling driver installed on your local machine, use the license address as follows:
Interconnect port number: 2325; FLEXLM port number: 6624; and host name: lmserver-6, as shown in
Figure 8.

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Figure 8: The License Configuration for ANSYS Multiphysics 2019 Rx

6. Click OK to save these settings and close the utility.

To test your ANSYS Multiphysics CAD installation:

Select one or more modules from the main Windows menu. For example:
Start menu | Programs | ANSYS 2019 Rx | Fluent 2019 Rx <or Forte or Chemkin or ICEM CFD or ...>

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Figure 9: Test your Multiphysics installation by Starting a CAD module (e.g., FLUENT)

The following suggestions are based upon difficulties some of our subscribers have had when upgrading their
workstations to the latest release from earlier ANSYS installations.
Resident anti-virus programs sometimes interfere with installation programs (see Figure 10).
Firewalls sometimes block the CADpass program from reaching CMC Microsystems' servers (see Figure 11).
In rare cases, there may be port conflicts between newly-installed CAD tools and existing programs on a
user's workstation

Figure 10. Anti-Virus Programs Can Interfere With ANSYS Installations

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Figure 11. Firewall Programs Can Interfere With ANSYS Installations

If you followed these instructions and cannot start this suite, open a support case with CMC Microsystems.

For high-performance computing (HPC) applications, the ANSYS Campus Solutions bundle is designed to
work as follows:
Each time one of the main modules (e.g., Fluent, CFX, or MAPDL) is started by one of our subscribers,
this module can be run on up to multiple cores without requiring any additional license features.
Specifically, if your local workstation has a multi-core processor, you may set your simulation to call on
all of its cores for computations.

ANSYS CAD tool Campus Solutions' Base Licence Feature Max. No. CPU Cores for Feature
HFSS (ANSYS EDT) electronics_desktop 4
Mechanical APDL aa_r 4
Fluent aa_r 16

The license file provided to CMC Microsystems by ANSYS includes additional (HPC) license features for
users wanting to run simulations on more than 16 cores. Each feature is equal to one (1) additional core.
When a simulation is started, the ANSYS module checks out as many features as it can, to fill the user's

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HPC request, and releases these features when the simulation is finished. In this way, ANSYS license
management allows CNDN users across Canadian universities to share one large pool of HPC licenses
with each other.
At this time (January, 2019), CMC licensing staff has removed the restriction on the number of HPC
license features used by a particular Multiphysics user. This means that one ANSYS subscriber token
allows a user to run a simulation on the maximum number of available cores in her or his environment,
up to the number of license features available in our license pool.
If you find that you are experiencing denials when attempting simulations, your token(s) may be in use
by another member of your group. Look at the report here to see if this is the case. If this is not the
case, then please contact our office for support .
When using the sparse solver in Mechanical APDL: The Shared Memory Parallel (SMP) solver will not
work with two or more graphics processing units. Use the Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) solver
with multiple GPU processors. For more information see: https://www.ansys.com/products/structures
/hpc-structures.

The ACT feature in ANSYS 19.x and later does not exist for LINUX installations, though it performs properly
for Windows installations, as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12: The ANSYS ACT GUI Starts From the Main Workbench GUI in Windows

In one of our support cases, a user tried to enter port@server information using the ANSYS license administration
tool. Do not install the ANSYS License Manager. It is not needed (Figure 13).

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Figure 13. Do Not Install the ANSYS License Manager Listed in the Main GUI

ANSYS has provided many useful tutorials with their software. For examples and hints, look through the ANSYS
Resource Library located here: Resource Library

For additional help, our student subscribers are entitled to browse the ANSYS Academic support resources .

For specific help learning how to use ANSYS "SpaceClaim", please have a look here .

There are a number of online training modules and "Getting Started..." guides included with these modules, under
their respective Help menus.

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