Some organizations choose to customize their ANSYS simulation environment to capture analysts’ expertise and know-how as well as give non-expert users access to advanced models. Improving the efficiency of simulation engineers is another benefit of customization, as complex in-house processes can easily be exposed and standardized for daily use.

ANSYS offers several tools for customizing structural mechanics analyses. The APDL language is the foundation of scripting at the solver level, allowing a user to automate solver procedures and get access to the details of the finite element model. ANSYS ACT is the tool for customizing the Mechanical interface within ANSYS Workbench.

Capabilities and Benefits of Using ACT
Encapsulate a customer's APDL script within Mechanical
Create custom entities within Mechanical to incorporate a company’s best practices through menus and buttons — a much more user-friendly approach to exposing complex capabilities
Embed third-party applications within Mechanical, ranging from external executables that compute data for pre- or post-processing up to solvers
Create tools to manipulate simulation data, such as mesh

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