Ansys Engineering Copilot is the AI assistant built into Ansys simulation products, now part of Synopsys. It answers questions inside the product window, points you to Ansys learning material and lets you open a support case. It came with Ansys 2025 R2 and reached medini analyze, ModelCenter and Rocky in 2026 R1. It needs an AnsysGPT AI+ licence, at no additional cost. Its pages don't mention MCP; Ansys publishes MCP servers separately.
Status as Ansys (Synopsys) states it: status not stated in Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys HFSS, Ansys Discovery and Other Ansys products (optiSLang, Lumerical FDTD, System Architecture Modeler, Zemax OpticStudio); now available in Ansys medini analyze, ModelCenter and Rocky. Also called AnsysGPT.
Labels are copied from Ansys (Synopsys)'s own pages. "Not stated" means we found no label for that product on the vendor's pages.
Built into Mechanical from 2025 R2; supported on Windows and Linux in 2026 R1.
Supported on Windows in 2026 R1.
Ansys said in July 2025 that Copilot would be included in the 2025 R2 versions of HFSS and Electronics Desktop; the 2026 R1 requirements list Electronics Desktop on Windows and Linux.
Built into Discovery from 2025 R2.
Ansys (Synopsys): “Ansys Engineering Copilot is now available in Ansys medini analyze, Ansys ModelCenter, and Ansys Rocky software”
Listed as supported platforms in the 2026 R1 Engineering Copilot requirements.
What it can do differs by product and release; check Ansys (Synopsys)'s page for your product.
The vendor also offers a separate MCP server. The Engineering Copilot pages we checked don't mention MCP. Separately, Ansys publishes MCP servers from its own GitHub organisation, such as PyMechanical-MCP, which lets outside AI assistants work with Ansys Mechanical. Ansys doesn't say whether Engineering Copilot uses them. Source
Ansys's own MCP server for Mechanical: launches or attaches to a session over gRPC, runs scripts, solves and exports results.
Ansys's own MCP server for Mechanical APDL: runs APDL commands and PyMAPDL code in a live MAPDL session and plots results.
Ansys's own MCP server for Fluent: launches or attaches to a Fluent session through PyFluent and runs sandboxed Python in it.
Ansys's own MCP server for CFX: drives CFX-Pre, CFX Solver and CFD-Post sessions through PyCFX with seven compact tools.
Ansys's own MCP server for Electronics Desktop: launches or attaches to AEDT over gRPC and runs PyAEDT code in a persistent session.
Ansys Engineering Copilot works inside Ansys (Synopsys)'s own products, with the abilities Ansys (Synopsys) builds into it. An MCP server takes the other route: it lets a general AI assistant that you choose, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, call the software's functions, and each project decides which functions to expose.
For Ansys Mechanical / MAPDL, Ansys Fluent / CFX and Ansys HFSS / Maxwell, Tresca lists 16 MCP servers and 6 agent skills; between them, their documentation covers Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cline, Codex, Continue, Cursor, Hermes and OpenCode and other clients. See each tool page: Ansys Mechanical / MAPDL, Ansys Fluent / CFX, Ansys HFSS / Maxwell.
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Ansys calls Engineering Copilot "a licensed product at no additional cost", and it requires a current AnsysGPT AI+ licence. Ansys doesn't publish a price for that licence on the pages we checked. Source
AI-generated models, drawings and results must be checked by a qualified engineer before use.
Checked 10 Nov 2026. Only Ansys (Synopsys)'s own pages count as sources here.
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