The Ansys Store provides hundreds of apps that further expand the capability of Ansys solutions. An Ansys app is simply a published ACT extension for performing specific functions within a targeted Ansys product.
The Ansys Store provides both free and paid apps developed by Ansys and trusted partners. While you are required to request a quote for a paid app for offline fulfilment, you only need to log in to download a free app. The Ansys Store supports filtering apps based on target application, product version, and price.
Download free apps for your licensed Ansys products to witness firsthand how sophisticated ACT extensions can be. If an app description concludes with [Contains source code], the downloaded app includes a directory containing the extension's XML definition file and IronPython scripts. You can view and even copy code from these files into the files for your own custom ACT extensions.
For your convenience, the following table lists free apps that provide source code. The Ansys Store indicates the Ansys product versions in which an app is supported.
| Ansys App | Targeted Product | App Description |
|---|---|---|
| API 4F Wind Loading | Mechanical | Applies wind loading on a solid, shell, or beam geometry per the API 4F guideline. |
| Advanced Enclosure | DesignModeler | Creates a fluid enclosure and decomposes it to sweepable bodies. |
| Analysis Settings Importer | Mechanical | Adds support for using a CSV file to import analysis settings for setting step end times, toggle automatic time stepping, and define substeps. |
| Command Obj to ACT | Mechanical | Converts your APDL command objects and snippets into working ACT extensions. This app makes it easy to create custom apps with your own specific APDL code. |
| Convert to Point Mass | Mechanical | Enables one-click conversion of solid components into point mass with automatic calculations and assignments of total mass, center of gravity location, and moment of inertia. |
| Explicit Time Step | Mechanical | Estimates and plots the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) time step for explicit dynamics analyses, based on the currently defined mesh and material properties, before executing the solution. |
| Extended Probe | Mechanical | Inspects deformed positions, angles, and distances between nodes. |
| External CAD Bridge | Workbench Workflow | Demonstrates how to create an app that integrates parametric study for non-Ansys CAD modeling programs. |
| Follower Loads | Mechanical | Creates follower forces and moments to follow geometric deformation. |
| General Axisymmetric Converter | Mechanical | Converts 2D geometry to 3D general axisymmetric elements (geometric axisymmetry with non-axisymmetric loading). For general features, see APDL element 272 or 273. This app also introduces custom constraint for rigid constraint equations for working with new axisymmetric sections. |
| Honeycomb Creator | DesignModeler | Creates honeycomb core models from a few simple cell properties and bulk size specifications. |
| Hot Keys Customizer | Mechanical | Allows you to assign your own scripted actions to hot keys to make performing repetitive actions easy. This app can also call functions from other apps. This is demonstrated by calling functions from the app Mechanical Custom Interface, also described in this table. |
| Mechanical Custom Interface | Mechanical | Works in conjunction with the app Hot Keys Customizer to introduce custom and more efficient workflows for Mechanical. |
| Modal Mass | Mechanical | Allows you in a modal analysis to easily view the effective mass data without searching through the solver output file. |
| Motion Loads | Mechanical | Applies motion loads issued from a rigid body analysis in a static structural analysis. |
| Moving Heat Source | Mechanical | Facilitates the definition of a moving heat source in Mechanical. |
| Multi Object Export | Mechanical | Exports results for multiple objects at once, with the data combined into a single output file. This avoids the need for multiple exports and manual collection or combination of the data. |
| Porous Zone Calculator | Fluent | Calculates flow through a variety of porous models. You can easily compute permeability and inertial resistance coefficients by providing velocity and pressure drop profiles from a CSV file. |
| Rotordynamics Tools | Mechanical | Exposes extended functionality for importing bearing coefficients, plotting whirl orbits in graphics windows, getting Campbell diagram data, and setting up typical rotordynamic constraints. |
| Selection Toolbar | Mechanical | Provide several facilities to create or manipulate selections in Mechanical. |
| User Programmable Features | Mechanical | Allows for the use of User Programmable Features (UPF) within Workbench. |
| Windkessel | Fluent | Couples two- and three-element Windkessel models to hemodynamics simulations, allowing for realistic and customizable boundary conditions using Fluent. |
| nCode Fatigue Result | Mechanical | Displays results from nCode in Mechanical. |