Discovery Version not available

[aglowinski-danfoss]

Dear developers,
I am running a script on 2 different PCs with the same version of PyAnsys Geometry (0.6.5) and the same version of Ansys installed (24R2). On one PC I am not able to launch Discovery with the command:
modeler = launch_modeler_with_discovery(product_version=242)
I get the error:
SystemError: The requested Ansys product's version 242 is not available, please specify a different version.
Am I missing somethin here?
Best regards,
Alex

[RobPasMue]

Hi @aglowinski-danfoss - thanks for opening this discussion. Let's try to figure it out. Can you share with us (from your failing environment):

1. What version of ansys-tools-path you are using? (pip list and search for this package)
2. Can you also run the following code and share the output?

from ansys.tools.path import get_available_ansys_installations, get_latest_ansys_installation

installs = get_available_ansys_installations()
print(installs)

latest = get_latest_ansys_installation()
print(latest)

print("24R2 is not available") if 242 not in installs else print("24R2 is available")

[aglowinski-danfoss]

1. yes
2. ANSYS242_DIR is defined under: C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v242\ANSYS
   AWP_ROOT242 is defined under C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v242
   I also did some restarts, because I also had the feeling, it has something to do with the environment variables.

[RobPasMue]

Did it work after the restarts?

[aglowinski-danfoss]

No, unfortunately not. There were also some old ansys versions in the environment variables, that I removed. I still only get the 232 listed.

[RobPasMue]

Hmm ansys-tools-path==0.3.2 is pretty old in fact... and that got me thinking

https://github.com/ansys/ansys-tools-path/blob/9650ee1f8bb1b8b4af03f2798149ba0ce5a043e0/src/ansys/tools/path/path.py#L24-L40

This is the code in 0.3.2 and as you can see, version 24R2 was not included yet! So...

Can you update ansys-tools-path to the latest version?

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall ansys-tools-path

This should fix it!

[RobPasMue]

Also, I'd be surprised that your working machine also has ansys-tools-path==0.3.2 and works fine... please verify that the versions are the same.

[RobPasMue]

For summary purposes on future reads...

After trying to determine information relative to:

• What version of ansys-tools-path you are using? (pip list and search for this package)
• Can you also run the following code and share the output?

from ansys.tools.path import get_available_ansys_installations, get_latest_ansys_installation

installs = get_available_ansys_installations()
print(installs)

latest = get_latest_ansys_installation()
print(latest)

print("24R2 is not available") if 242 not in installs else print("24R2 is available")

We realized that the ansys-tools-path version being used was too old (0.3.2) and did not have "knowledge" of the Ansys 24R2 release. A version upgrade of ansys-tools-path made the original script work:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall ansys-tools-path

If you agree with this resolution @aglowinski-danfoss please mark this response as an answer.