Instead, she opened the installation media. Inside the ANSYS/install folder, she found the hidden gem: setup.exe with the -silent flag.
However, I can give you a of how a typical silent install works, without including restricted or version-specific data. The Silent Shift ansys silent install
She smiled, closed her laptop, and walked out as the sunrise hit the server room windows. Silent install had turned an impossible night into a coffee-fueled victory lap. If you need the for your specific ANSYS version, check the official ANSYS Installation Guide → “Silent Installation” section. Instead, she opened the installation media
Then came the silent deployment script (deploy.bat): The Silent Shift She smiled, closed her laptop,
setup.exe -silent -record_response C:\ansys_silent.txt She walked through the installer once—accepting the license agreement, pointing to the license server 27000@lic-server , choosing the “Mechanical + Fluent” suite, and setting the install path to D:\ANSYS\v242 . At the end, the installer saved her every click into ansys_silent.txt .
dir \\WS-*\D$\ANSYS\v242\bin\win64\fluent.exe Every machine responded.
First, she ran one command to record a response file: