Design Opt in ANSYS APDL

- March 7, 2019 at 3:19 pm
  
  db473
  Subscriber
  
  Hi everyone,
  
  Does anybody know if Design Opt is available with the student version of ANSYS APDL 19.0?
  
  It's not visible on the main menu and the command /OPT is not recognised
  
  Thanks!
- March 7, 2019 at 6:49 pm
  
  jpasquerell
  Ansys Employee
  
  The Design Optimization module was removed from the ANSYS Mechanical APDL documentation. Use of Design Xplorer is the recommended replacement option. The /OPT command code is still in the product but is restricted to only a few product licenses such as ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise.
- March 9, 2019 at 10:53 am
  
  db473
  Subscriber
  
  Many thanks
- March 11, 2019 at 5:46 pm
  
  tsiriaks
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi db473,
  
  Please mark jpasquerell's post as 'Is Solution' , so that others know that there is an answer for this.
  
  Thank you,
  
  Win
- October 25, 2020 at 6:10 pm
  
  booy10
  Subscriber
  
  I have the same question, I can't find the /OPT command any where . I also can't find the Design Xplorer command anywhere in the Main menu on the leftside of the window, please help . Thanksn