The Mechanical ribbon's Automation tab displays the ACT Development group whenever debug mode is enabled. If Mechanical is already started when Debug Mode is enabled, you must exit Mechanical and then restart it. For more information, see Debug Mode in the Ansys ACT Developer's Guide.
Clicking the first button reloads ACT extensions.
Clicking the second button switches between opening and closing the Extensions Log File.
Clicking the third button opens the ACT Debugger.
Clicking the fourth button opens the help panel for the ACT Start Page.
If you have ACT extensions loaded, in the lower left corner of the Mechanical Scripting view, a tab displays for each loaded extension. Tabs are only shown when debug mode is enabled for ACT extensions. For more information, see Scope Selection for ACT Extensions in the Scripting in Mechanical Guide.