Feature Creation in Mechanical

In Mechanical, you can create custom preprocessing, postprocessing, and third-party solver features.

In addition to the common capabilities listed in Feature Creation Roadmap, Mechanical supports the feature creation capabilities that follow. References in this table take you to topics in the ACT Customization Guide for Mechanical. For information on Mechanical scripting and API usage, see Scripting in Mechanical Guide.

Topic	Reference
Capabilities specific to Mechanical	Mechanical Feature Creation > UI Customization in Mechanical in the ACT Customization Guide for Mechanical ACT-Based Property Parametrization in Mechanical Preprocessing Capabilities in Mechanical Postprocessing Capabilities in Mechanical Third-Party Solver Connections in Mechanical Additional Methods and Callbacks

For comprehensive API and XML information, see the Ansys ACT API and XML Online Reference Guide.

In the API information, see these Mechanical namespaces:

In the XML information, see these key XML elements:

<extension>

            <simdata>

                        <load>

                        <object>

                        <result>

                        <solver>