{"id":171220,"date":"2023-06-05T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-copy-ansys-help-from-a-windows-machine-a-machine-with-ansys-installed-to-another-windows-machine-b-machine-without-ansys-installed-and-enable-ansys-help-on-b-machine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:18","slug":"how-to-copy-ansys-help-from-a-windows-machine-a-machine-with-ansys-installed-to-another-windows-machine-b-machine-without-ansys-installed-and-enable-ansys-help-on-b-machine","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-copy-ansys-help-from-a-windows-machine-a-machine-with-ansys-installed-to-another-windows-machine-b-machine-without-ansys-installed-and-enable-ansys-help-on-b-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to copy ANSYS Help from a Windows machine (A machine) with ANSYS installed to another Windows machine (B machine) without ANSYS installed and enable ANSYS Help on B machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Create a folder (e.g. named C:ANSYS-180-Help) on B machine. 2. Create a sub-folder named commonfiles (e.g.  C:ANSYS-180-Helpcommonfiles) on B machine. 3. Copy the whole folder of C:Program FilesANSYS Incv180Framework from A machine to B machine under C:ANSYS-180-Help 4. Copy the whole folder of C:Program FilesANSYS Incv172commonfileshelp from A machine to B machine under C:ANSYS-180-Helpcommonfiles 5. Create a batch (e.g. ANSYS-180-HELP.bat) file as below:          @echo off         set AWP_ROOT180=C:ANSYS-180-Help         start &#8220;&#8221; &#8220;C:ANSYS-180-HelpcommonfileshelpHelpViewerANSYSHelpViewer.exe&#8221; 6. Run above batch file on B machine to open ANSYS 18.0 Help.  Should also apply for R17.x (and may be prior versions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-171220","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4422","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-installation-licensing-systems","topic-tag-operating-system","topic-tag-other","topic-tag-workbench-platform-sys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153867"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["399"],"siebel_km_number":["2049265"],"product_version":["18"],"km_published_date":["2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Installation\/Licensing\/Systems"],"application_name":["Workbench Platform - SYS"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}