Looking for a single source of Ansys knowledge, tips, and support without leaving your current simulation? Meet the Ansys Engineering Copilot AI-enabled assistant.
If you’re looking to ramp up your simulation speed and efficiency, look no further than the Ansys Engineering Copilot tool. This robust virtual assistant is built into Ansys Discovery 2025 R2 and Ansys Mechanical 2025 R2 and will be included in Ansys Speos, Lumerical, Fluent, Scade One, optiSLang, Electronics Desktop (AEDT), and HFSS software in Ansys 2025 R2. This new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capability is free to licensed users and embedded directly into the solver interface.
Backed by more than 50 years of technical support experience, the Engineering Copilot feature helps new users learn Ansys software and run simulations, reducing the learning curve. It also helps expert users achieve better, faster simulation results as they work on larger, more complex engineering problems.
Wherever your team members are in their simulation journey, the Engineering Copilot assistant meets them there, with the intuitive support and assistance they need to grow their skill sets and accelerate their analysis. This powerful new virtual assistant represents just one more way that Ansys is democratizing simulation and maximizing your investments in Ansys software.
On-Demand In-Task Assistance in Real Time
Without leaving your Ansys solution or current simulation, you can access the specific help you need, on demand and in real time, in the same window. The Engineering Copilot natural language interface is built for an easy, fast response to common queries, without interrupting your current task. It provides you with guided learning, peer-to-peer support, and a library of existing knowledge, tips, and best practices. For complex queries, you can open and track an Ansys Customer Support case.
By opening a single tab in your existing window, here are all the things you can accomplish in seconds with the Engineering Copilot capability:
- Search every Ansys website
- Access more than 600 Ansys Innovation Courses
- Scan thousands of knowledge articles
- Interact with global Ansys customer forums
- Create and track support cases
- Interact 24/7 with our multilingual, AI-enabled AnsysGPT agent
How exactly does the Engineering Copilot tool work? Let’s say you’ve gotten stuck trying to connect parts together in your Mechanical model. Via a drop-down menu, you can use natural language to simply ask the Engineering Copilot assistant, “What are the different ways to connect the parts of my model in Mechanical software?”
Within seconds, the Engineering Copilot capability will describe the two methods available to join parts — shared topology and contacts — along with links to training courses, instructional videos, webinars, knowledge articles, user forums, and other expert resources. You can dig deeper into any of these materials based on the specific issue you’re having and interact with the AnsysGPT agent to apply AI in your search. If you still need help, simply open an Ansys Customer Support case for the one-on-one help you’ve always enjoyed as an Ansys customer.
The Ansys Engineering Copilot assistant is built into Ansys Discovery 2025 R2 and Ansys Mechanical 2025 R2 and will be included in Ansys Speos, Lumerical, Fluent, Scade One, optiSLang, Electronics Desktop (AEDT), and HFSS software in Ansys 2025 R2.
The Result? Cost, Time, and Productivity Gains
We’re confident you’ll experience a real improvement in simulation speed and efficiency by using the Engineering Copilot feature. Why? Because it’s been developed based on five decades of simulation industry leadership, hundreds of customer success stories, and daily interactions with the world’s leading product development teams.
In addition, pilot users of this solution have provided exceedingly positive feedback. Early adopters tell us they’re experiencing significant gains in these areas:
- Faster onboarding for new simulation users
- Accelerated skill development for all engineers
- Improved teamwide productivity
- Faster design iterations
- Shorter time to market for new designs
The Engineering Copilot assistant also protects users’ data and security as they work on proprietary product studies, providing the stringent control that’s critical to IT and legal stakeholders. The Engineering Copilot capability is embedded as part of Ansys core products.
AnsysGPT is built upon the GPT-4o model via OpenAI and is the AI support assistant in the Engineering Copilot tool. To protect users’ privacy, neither Ansys nor Microsoft saves and monitors customer inputs, and queries are not stored or used by Ansys in any way.
Whatever functionality your product team is using, you can trust Ansys to protect your data privacy and provide stringent security protocols at every step.
Ansys: Committed to Practical Innovation
Ansys strives to assemble the industry’s most robust set of simulation knowledge and resources. We understand that this enormous range of support can be hard to navigate, especially when you’re deep in a specific simulation. The Engineering Copilot tool is the ideal solution, providing real-time, simplified access to our huge library of resources.
Soon to be included with almost all Ansys solvers, this new solution reflects Ansys’ core mission to accelerate the design and verification work of product development teams. Ansys is committed to innovation, but that commitment is focused on delivering real-world, practical benefits to our global customer community. With the Engineering Copilot assistant, you won’t have to compromise time or analytic rigor as you tackle larger, more complex simulations. The help you need is right at hand.
Looking toward the future, Ansys is working on many exciting new AI-enabled developments that ramp up the speed and power of Ansys simulation software. Get on board now, and you’ll be a leader instead of a follower. Contact us today to make sure your Ansys licenses include this advanced capability.
