EMC Plus and Charge Plus Quick Start Page for 2025 R1

This page contains quick start information for EMC Plus and Charge Plus. These products are available exclusively from Ansys, Inc. We have a PDF guide to download at this link.

The products have major releases every six months. The major release installation download of the products is available from the Ansys Customer Portal. Both Ansys EMC Plus and Ansys Charge Plus install from the same executable. They are also available to download below on this page.

2025 R1 Windows Installer

Download 2025 R1: EMC Plus and Charge Plus 2025R1.zip

Check which version of EMC Plus or Charge Plus is installed

Check which version you have installed by navigating to the main Discovery settings menu, navigating to Add-Ins, and looking under “Description”

2025 R1 Linux Installer

There is a solver-only (no graphical interface) version of EMC Plus and Charge Plus only available at the download link below. The FEM and FDTD solvers each have their executable and dependencies compiled and packaged for Linux distributions. The Linux installer is no longer available as part of the Windows installer download link. The installer is available below with support for additional older NVIDIA GPUs and support for older Linux OS distributions.

Download 2025 R1 Linux: EMC_PLUS_CHARGE_PLUS_LINUX_ANSYSv8.2.5.tar.gz

In the above installer, you will find both Linux FDTD versions for multi-GPU or CPU machines and the brand new Linux FEM version compatible with CPU machines only.

The Linux Installation Guide is available here: LinuxInstallationGuide.pdf.

Ansys Support for EMC Plus and Charge Plus

Check with the Ansys Support Coordinator (ASC) at your company to identify who provides support for your location. Most likely it will be provided by Ansys directly. Regional contact options are listed here.

If supported via Ansys directly, submit a support request via the Ansys Customer Portal: support.ansys.com. If supported by an Ansys Channel Partner contact your channel partner directly.

Useful Tips: When inquiring about support, have your Ansys customer number ready in advance (learn how to retrieve your customer number here). Many useful training and instruction resources are available via the Knowledge Resource Search, found on the home page of the Ansys Customer Portal or via the Ansys Resource Center.

Tutorials

Tutorials are available by clicking on the (?) menu in the “Other” section of the ribbon, next to “Settings”. Additional tutorials that have been recently developed and are not yet in the help tutorials are available for download below.

Additional unpublished demos are available at this link.

Latest API Documentation

We provide documentation with each release but maintain the latest up to date version of documentation on our website here.

2025R1 Major Release Notes:

Additional Quality-of-Life Improvements: