How to run python script from command line?

- October 7, 2019 at 5:41 pm
  
  gswilsons
  Subscriber
  
  I am trying to run a python script that I wrote for ANSYS HFSS without the need to open up ANSYS and click tools > run script file >... etc. and would like to run the script from my windows command line instead. Would anyone happen to have any experience doing this sort of thing?
  
  Thus far I have discovered that assuming I am in the proper directory I can type the command "ansysedt.exe" to open HFSS, and I have found online that you can type things like "ansysedt.exe -R doStuff.wbjn" to run workbench journal files. However, when I try to use "ansysedt.exe -R doStuff.py" I just get an error about how I cannot open the project even though I am trying to run a script that builds a project from scratch.
  
  In short, does anyone know the command to run a python script without the need to manually run that script within the GUI? Ideally I would like to run ANSYS without the GUI entirely and just export the results from my simulation for post processing elsewhere.
- October 10, 2019 at 4:10 pm
  
  Sorceress Gia
  Ansys Employee
  
  Non-graphical script execution is a beta feature in AEDT 2019 R3. You can enable it be going to 'Tools > Options > General Options' and then pressing the 'Beta Options' under General > Desktop Configuration.
  
  Then you can run a script non-graphically from the command line like this:
  
  "C:Program FilesAnsysEMAnsysEM19.5Win64ansysedt.exe" -features=beta -ng -runscriptandexit script_name.py aedt_file_name.aedt
- October 10, 2019 at 8:37 pm
  
  gswilsons
  Subscriber
  
  This is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much for your help.
- January 26, 2021 at 11:32 am
  
  DongLe
  Subscriber
  
  Hi Peter,n If we use command line to run python script like this:n ansysedt.exe -features=beta -ng -runscriptandexit script_name.py aedt_file_name.aedtnin python script, Could you tell me how to get path of aedt file?nThank you.n