It's important that you dump your simulation data in /tmp/simulation to avoid filling up your home directory and chocking your and possibly others' user accounts.
If you have copied the right course setup directories, it should occur by default. Otherwise, add the following entry to your .cdsinit file in your wokr directory
; Added by admin
(envSetVal "asimenv.startup" "projectDir" 'string
(strcat "/tmp/simulation/" getShellEnvVar("USER")))
(envSetVal "asimenv.startup" "simulator" 'string "spectre")
; end of add by admin