Running the Ansys Lumerical CAD/IDE

This guideline shows how to open and run Ansys Lumerical product CAD/GUI from a supported system.

Ansys Optics Launcher

Open the Start Menu by:
- clicking on the Windows icon on the task bar or by
- pressing the Windows logo key on your keyboard.
Navigate to "All Apps" or "All Programs"
Select "Ansys Optics [[verpath]]"
Click on the "Ansys Optics Launcher";
From the Launcher, select Solvers on the left and click on "New Project" to the right of the 'Solver's Name' in the list.

Running the CAD directly

Steps below outlines the process of opening or running the Lumerical CAD/GUI directly, not from the Ansys Optics Launcher.

Windows

Open the Start Menu as shown above and Navigate to All Apps or All Programs.
Select "Ansys Optics [[verpath]]"
Click the "Solver Name" to run the CAD/IDE directly (outside the Ansys Optics Launcher) , e.g. FDTD to open the FDTD CAD/GUI.

Linux Terminal

Open Terminal.
Run the Ansys Lumerical CAD/IDE executable with the full install path (default install path shown).

Ansys Optics Launcher
```
  /opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/launcher &
```
- From the Launcher, select "Solvers" on the left and click on "New Project" to the right of the 'Solver's Name' in the list. See image.

Finite Element IDE (FDTD, Stack and RCWA)

 /opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/fdtd-solutions &

MODE (EME, FDE and varFDTD)

 /opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/mode-solutions &

Multiphysics (CHARGE, HEAT, FEEM, DGTD and MQW)
```
 /opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/device &
```

INTERCONNECT

 /opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/interconnect &

See this Knowledge Base (KB) to add the installation path into your environment in Linux.

See also

Running multiple Lumerical GUI instances on Linux – Ansys Optics