If you haven’t noticed, ANSYS, Inc. has been making quite a few ACT extensions available for ANSYS 15.0 on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you are not familiar with ACT (ANSYS Customization Toolkit) Extensions, please see our earlier blog entry, “There’s an Extension for That,” here.
As of this writing, there are 20 ACT extensions available for download from the Customer Portal for version 15.0. There is also a set of training files available from the same link.
Among the new additions is an extension allowing the use of Mechanical APDL User Programmable Features in the Mechanical editor. Previously this could only be done in MAPDL. You will still need to install the customization files as part of the ANSYS installation, and you will still need the proper versions of the FORTRAN compiler and Visual Studio. However, this extension unleashes a significant capability within the Workbench Mechanical tool that wasn’t there previously, access to UPF’s.
The documentation states that it works with both versions 14.5 and 15.0 of ANSYS.
To get to the 15.0 ACT Extensions download area, login to the ANSYS Customer Portal and navigate through Downloads > Extension Library > 15.0. We urge you to browse the list of available extension available from the Customer Portal to see which might have benefits to your simulations.
Here is a list of all of the current extensions:
ACT Intro Training_R150_v1
ACT Templates for DM_R150_v1
ACT Templates for DX_R150_v1
ACT Templates_R150_v1
Acoustics Extension R150_v42
Convection Extension_R150_v4
Coupled Diffusion_R150_v3
Coupled Field Physics Extension_R150_v1
DDAM_R150_v2
Design Modeler Utility_R150_v1
Distributed Mass_R150_v2
Enforced Motion_R150_v3
FE Info Extension_R150_v9
FSI_Transient_Load_Mapping_R150_v4
Follower Loads Extension_R150_v2
Hydrostatic Fluid_R150_v5
MATLAB_Optimizers_for_DX_R150_v1
MatChange_R150_v2
Offshore_R150_v4
Piezo Extension_R150_v8
UPF Extension_R150_v1