DPF-RST file compatibility (follow up)

[agrishin]

Description of the modifications

From Costas Vogiatzis @ Honeywell:
This issue is related to an earlier issue (#577):

Coming back to the standalone DPF install that you pointed out as an option below. The only possibility seems to be to install a prerelease version from https://download.ansys.com/Others/DPF%20Pre-Release. Would these contain the same functionality and have been through the same QA as a released version? Is there a way to get the same DPF that is in an ANSYS release?

The context for this is the following: we are developing postprocessing applications here that use PyAnsys + DPF to access ANSYS results. We want to package the DPF server with the application itself so its functionality does not depend on the ANSYS version a user has installed.

Useful links and references

#577

[PProfizi]

Hi @agrishin,

A DPF Server hosted on the Customer Portal page and marked as pre has a specific License in which it is stated that the Product is for evaluation purposes only.

The distinction in terms of QA is that despite the tests being run just like for a regular release, a pre-release does not undergo the rest of the Quality Process followed by Ansys to be Certified ISO 9001 (see here for Ansys Quality Assurance).

We do plan in the long term to also release on the Customer Portal a standalone mirror release of the DPF Server included in each Ansys release.

I think your use-case is a good argument in favor of pushing for having this mirror release of DPF as a standalone and will forward that request.