PyAEDT Multi-Desktop - How to open several instances of AEDT with different versions

[gmalinve]

With the new multi-desktop settings, PyAEDT is able to launch different Desktop instances with different versions. Here is how:

In the Settings class we have recently introduced a new property called use_multi_desktop that allows you to have as many AEDT instances as you want (even with different versions).
Add this at the beginning of your code snippet:

from pyaedt import settings
settings.use_multi_desktop = True

Remember to set grpc to True if one of the versions you would like to open is < 2024.1 because, if not specified, the session is not open in grpc mode:

settings.use_grpc_api = True

and then you can launch the Desktop as:

desktop1= Desktop(new_desktop=True,version=241,non_graphical=non_graphical)
desktop2= Desktop(new_desktop=True, version=222, non_graphical=non_graphical)

and then you could release them separately:

desktop1.release_desktop()
desktop2.release_desktop()