Introduction

This guide assumes that you are familiar with the general ACT usage information in the ACT Developer's Guide. This first section supplies ACT usage information specific to Mechanical:

Subsequent content is organized into primary sections as follows:

  • Mechanical Feature Creation: Provides examples of how to integrate ACT parameters into Mechanical models, create preprocessing and postprocessing capabilities, and connect to third-party solvers.

  • Mechanical Wizards: Describes Mechanical product wizards, using a supplied extension as an example.


Note:  For information on Mechanical ACT API changes and known issues and limitations that might affect your existing ACT extensions, see Mechanical API Migration Notes and Mechanical API Known Issues and Limitations in the Scripting in Mechanical Guide.