Why to use ANSYS ACT Apps?
The ANSYS ACT Development services offered by DESIGNTEC provide the user with ACT Apps and Extensions which can be used for your business-specific tasks and processes within ANSYS products.
Technology of ANSYS ACT Apps
Development of ANSYS ACT extensions and apps is based mainly on XML, IronPython and C# programming languages using frameworks and APIs of ANSYS products to meet your customization objectives. ACT provides predefined graphical interface elements with all necessary callbacks. This allows us to develop for you the ACT extension in a very short time. For development of advanced tasks and complex applications the advantage of .NET integration and support provided by IronPython and C# is considered.
The development process of an ACT extension typically consists of following steps:
- The developer customizes the ANSYS product by adding new GUI objects and defines their functionality via predefined callbacks
- The Binary ACT extension (.WBEX) is compiled to binary extension
- The compiled extension is later on distributed to the ANSYS users
- Finally, the user can install binary ACT extension in ANSYS products supporting ACT
Press down simulation process effort through the routine automation
Together with the escalation of the simulation capabilities and competencies the simulation workflows complexity rises rapidly. Complexity is limiting the simulation usability considering the fact of expertise, skill and know-how demands which leads to lowering the overall efficiency of engineering process. DESIGNTEC offers you the development of scripts or extensions based on ACT (ANSYS Simulation Customization Toolkit) which automate your repetitive tasks, reduce the simulation complexity and satisfy process usability and intelligibility requirements.
Automation can be based either on scripts or new user interface elements (ACT objects) like toolbars, custom objects in tree outline or wizards which can be integrated in SpaceClaim, Mechanical, Workbench or AIM environments to execute custom actions.
Workflow complexity can be eliminated by the simulation process steps decomposition and creation of new simulation structure based on the crucial information required for each of the action all guided by ACT (creation of customized simulation workflows). ACT enables to press down the simulation process effort within a single ANSYS application such as ANSYS Mechanical by utilizations customized tools for better handling of complex models. Likewise ACT can be used to optimize the multiple ANSYS and third-party application scenario formed into one workflow (integrate third-party applications and data).
Applications
- Automation of company specific processes (workflows, load and boundary definitions, analysis settings, …)
- Transfer of the loads or boundary conditions from third-party tools
- Definition of non-homogeneous material distribution on analysed parts
- Automated generation of results (figures, charts, tables) and report generation
Integrate third party applications and data into the native ANSYS environment
DESIGNTEC can help you to integrate your in-house or commercial software engineering products into ANSYS products in order to develop new simulation workflows customized for your bussines-specific CAE Simulations. Using ACT we can embed your custom solvers into ANSYS Mechanical, add new analysis systems representing your applications into Workbench simulation workflows or extend the optimization methods within DesignExplorer.
Applications
- Integration of in-house or third-party solvers and optimization methods
- User-defined import/export
- Integration of other software solutions
- Other company-specific expertise, know-how, processes
Create customized workflows to your special CAE simulation processes
CAE simulation is process consisting of sequentially ordered particular steps typically starting up with the preparation of input data, followed by the computational model set up ending up with the results postprocessing and output data analysis. DESIGNTEC helps you to implement and automate your custom simulation scenarios. Using ACT such processes can be integrated in ANSYS Workbench or ANSYS AIM environments.
ACT defines each simulation step as a task. These tasks form task groups according to their system function within the simulation process. Task groups represent different steps of the simulation procedure as well as diverse actions to be performed define the full simulation scenario on the background platform of ANSYS Workbench or ANSYS AIM.
In-house or third-party tools, routines and applications can be integrated into the ANSYS products in the frame of ANSYS Workbench or ANSYS AIM environments. This integral solution for managing heterogeneous systems has a potential to substantially speed up engineering process.
Applications
- script-based automation of workflows for CAE simulations
- automated data handling and exchange
- connection of external software for design exploration and optimization
Extend and fortify current ANSYS products with new features and routines
ACT (ANSYS Simulation Customization Toolkit) is able to deliver a solution in case when your industry-specific demands are exceeding the ANSYS general capabilities. With the use of ACT we are able to extend the current ANSYS products by creating of ACT extensions, which add new customer and task specific functionalities such as custom loads, boundary conditions and integration of your legacy APDL scripts or custom results based on your own assessment. The major advantage of such implemented features and tools is the fact that these operate as native features of ANSYS products.
Applications
- Mechanical
- seamless integration of your legacy APDL scripts into ANSYS Mechanical
- user-created custom loads and boundary conditions, pre- and pots-processing routines and custom results based on your own assessment or evaluation criteria
- definition of custom material models or custom finite elements using User Programmable Features (UPFs)
- integration of wizards, which allow non-expert users to walk through a step-by-step simulation and increase productivity by reducing the time taken to perform repetitive tasks
- new user interface elements for process automation and custom features
- Fluent
- customization of boundary conditions, source terms, reaction rates, material properties, etc.
- automatization of simulation processes
- advanced FLUENT User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
- DesignModeler and SpaceClaim
- definition of new user interface elements to execute custom actions
- wizards for guidance through the steps of CAD model creation and reduction of repetitive tasks
- AIM
- custom pre- and pots-processing routines and custom results based on your own assessment or evaluation criteria
- define new user interface elements to execute custom actions
- Workbench
- automated creation of custom workflows for your simulation processes
- integration of third-party applications and data into your simulation process
Tired of repetitive tasks?
Let us discus how ANSYS ACT applications and scripts help you work more effectively.
ANSYS ACT Apps developed by DESIGNTEC
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A-BOLT: Automated Assessment of Bolts for ANSYS
A-BOLT is an ANSYS ACT Extension for automated assessment and verification of prestressed bolted connections. A-BOLT is seamlessly integrated into ANSYS Mechanical environment providing user friendly interface for defining of multiple groups of bolts, database with bolts, nuts, inserts, materials and friction coefficients, detailed output ready for documentation and many other useful features.
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ANSYS ACT Extension: Energy plot
The extension allows to evaluate the time history of the energies like stiffness energy, kinetic energy, damping energy, work done by external load, artificial energy due to hourglass control/drill stiffness or due to contact stabilization damping, artificial energy due to nonlinear stabilization.
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ANSYS ACT Extension: Figures Manager
The extension allows efficient change of graphical preferences of multiple result Figures located in the Mechanical Outline tree. The Figures properties (like name, view, deformed scale, min/max symbols, legend etc.) for each Figure are displayed in a synoptic table and can be changed all at once by multiple row selection. The extension can be used for preparing sets of Figures with the same graphical style and properties for reporting purposes.
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ANSYS ACT Extension: FEMFAT inside ANSYS
The ACT Extension FEMFAT for ANSYS was developed by DESIGNTEC for our customer Engineering Center Steyr GmbH & Co KG, the developer of FEMFAT software.