Ansys Mechanical is a Workbench application that can perform a variety of engineering simulations, including stress, thermal, vibration, thermo-electric, and magnetostatic simulations.

A typical simulation consists of setting up the model and the loads applied to it, solving for the model's response to the loads, then examining the details of the response with a variety of tools.

Mechanical has "objects" arranged in a tree structure that guide you through the different steps of a simulation. By expanding the objects, you expose the details associated with the object, and you can use the corresponding tools and specification tables to perform that part of the simulation. Objects are used, for example, to define environmental conditions such as contact surfaces and loadings, and to define the types of results you want to have available for review.

The following Help topics describe in detail how to use Mechanical to set up and run a simulation:

After you become comfortable using Mechanical, you might want to write scripts that automate your routine tasks. Eventually, you might even want to create extensions that customize and automate Mechanical itself. You can accomplish all of this using Ansys ACT and its powerful API (Application Programming Interface).