Guide Overview

This section introduces ACT. Subsequent sections organize content as follows:

  • ACT Overview: Presents a high-level overview of ACT that introduces you to extension development, customization capabilities, documentation and development resources, and "roadmaps" for specific types of customizations.

  • ACT Tools: Describes the many tools that ACT provides for developing, debugging, and executing extensions.

  • Extensions: Describes the basic components of an ACT scripted extension and provides information about extension configuration, supplied examples, installed IronPython function libraries, advanced programming, and extension creation.

  • Feature Creation: Provides examples of customization capabilities common to the Ansys products that support using ACT to leverage existing product functionality and add custom functionality and operations.

  • Simulation Wizards: Describes wizards and how you can create them to walk non-expert users step-by-step through simulations.

  • Debugging: Describes debug mode and the methods for debugging scripts during extension development.

  • ACT Customization Guides for Supported Ansys Products: Provides links to additional guides that explain how to use ACT to customize specific Ansys products.