ANSYS Workbench MCP

Item: ANSYS Workbench MCP
Rating: 67
Author: M8ven

A clean MCP server and ACT extension for controlling ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS Mechanical from any MCP client, enabling launching Workbench journals, executing Mechanical Python scripts, and interacting with a running Mechanical session via file queue or socket timer bridge.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configJOBS_DIR

configANSYS_WB_EXE

configRUNWB2_EXE

configANSYS_ROOT— 1. Detect the ANSYS install root from , AWP_ROOT, or common paths.

configANSYS_MECHANICAL_CLI

configWORKBENCH_MCP_QUEUE_ROOT

configWORKBENCH_MCP_HOST

configWORKBENCH_MCP_PORT

configWORKBENCH_MCP_ROOT

configWORKBENCH_MCP_AUTO_START_SOCKET— You can start the bridge from the Workbench MCP toolbar in Mechanical (Socket Timer Start). With =1 (the default), the ACT extension attempts to start it automatically when Mechanical loads.

configWORKBENCH_MCP_AUTO_START_QUEUE

configWORKBENCH_MCP_QUEUE_INTERVAL_MS

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commit: ab124253e428c61ba00251f58d58e6cafd3812d2

code hash: e237b73bc918448f16380b1430b2b5b26ded8da57f5488d2fcedf38ebac1be29

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