Last Verified: 2025-01-27
NOTE EnSight is not currently available on CORAL systems.
Overview
EnSight is a product of ANSYS. (The software was previously developed by Computational Engineering International (CEI), which was acquired by ANSYS in 2017.) EnSight provides a set of tools to help with many types of engineering analysis, visualization, and communication. With EnSight you can create contours, isosurfaces, particle traces, vector arrows, elevated surfaces, and profile plots. Animation is also supported.
Like many modern scientific visualization applications, EnSight can utilize a distributed computing model, consisting of a server running on the remote machine where the data sets reside and a client running on the desktop, where all interface interaction and graphics rendering is done using the desktop machine's built-in graphics hardware.
NEW EnSight is now provided by the Engineering Software Tool Kit (ESTK). Please refer to those webpages for further information.
Environment
Machines and Versions
See the ESTK LC Deployment page.
Location
All installation directories are in /usr/gapps/estk. You can run the latest ANSYS launcher as /usr/gapps/estk/ansys/ansys. To check for other versions, you can try the following command:
ls /usr/gapps/estk | grep -i ansys
If you need to run EnSight directly, the executables are in those directory trees. Here are a few example paths to help you find it:
/usr/gapps/estk/ansys-2024r2/ansys_inc/v242/CEI/bin/ensight /usr/gapps/estk/ansys-2023r2b/v232/CEI/bin/ensight
Help
Manuals and documentation are available within the EnSight application from the Help menu.
Video tutorials and more are available in the ANSYS Resource Center.
Download
The EnSight software may be installed and licensed on a local machine. This would be useful if you want to run in distributed mode, or if your local machine has enough memory and speed to visualize your data in stand-alone mode.
Please refer to the ESTK Software Download page for details and instructions. (EnSight is included under the ANSYS downloads, specifically in the FLUIDS package.)