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Property Controllers in ANSYS ACT

Customizations developed using ANSYS ACT adhere closely to the user experience that is native to Mechanical and other Workbench apps. Obviously, this is to be expected, but sometimes it can be ...

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Experiences with Developing a “Somewhat Large” ACT Extension in ANSYS

With each release of ANSYS the customization toolkit continues to evolve and grow. Recently I developed what I would categorize as a decent sized ACT extension. My purpose in this post is to h...

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Reading ANSYS Mechanical Result Files (.RST) from C/C++ (Part 3)

In the last post of this series I illustrated how I handled the nested call structure of the procedural interface to ANSYS’ BinLib routines. If you recall, any time you need to extract some inform...

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Reading ANSYS Mechanical Result Files (.RST) from C/C++ (Part 2)

In the last post in this series I illustrated how you can interface C code with FORTRAN code so that it is possible to use the ANSYS, Inc. BinLib routines to read data off of an ANSYS result file with...

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Reading ANSYS Mechanical Result Files (.RST) from C/C++ (Part 1)

Recently, I’ve encountered the need to read the contents of ANSYS Mechanical result files (e.g. file.rst, file.rth) into a C++ application that I am writing for a client. Obviously, these files are ...

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PID Thermostat Boundary Condition ACT Extension for ANSYS Mechanical

Editors Note (2/2/2023): The version of this ACT Extention on the Ansys Store stopped working and we took it down in 2022. However, we do have a newer version available here on the PADT Blog. Read a...

Programming a Simple Polygon Editor

Part of my job at PADT is writing custom software for our various clients. We focus primarily on developing technical software for the engineering community, with a particular emphasis on tools that...

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Home Grown HPC on CUBE Systems

A Little Project BackgroundRecently I've been working on developing a computer vision system for a long standing customer. We are developing software that enables them to use computers to “see” wh...

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ACT Extension for a PID Thermostat Controller (PART 2)

(View part one of this series here.) Editors Note (2/2/2023): We originally uploaded this ACT extension to the Ansys Store, but have since decided to keep the updated versions here on the PADT blog.�...

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ACT Extension for a PID Thermostat Controller (PART 1)

Editors Note (2/2/2023): We originally uploaded this ACT extension to the Ansys Store, but have since decided to keep the updated versions here on the PADT blog. You can read about the latest updat...

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