Hi Gilad Nave ,

You get to be careful when you are writing script in Notepad++. Sometimes Notepad++ doesn't do a good job on indentation and for that reason the Python script can't be run properly. This thing happened to me before and I did not know what was really wrong until I realized that the problem is with the indentations. As far as I remember you can fix the indentation problem by doing the followings:

press Ctrl+H

in "Find what:" put four spaces

in "Replace with:" write "/t"

change the search mode to reflect "Extended"

heat "Replace All" button.

This should fix the indentation problem.

I hope you already looked that the link that Muhammad Ali put in his comment, I provided more information in there. Also, I attached the latest document that I have for ACT programming in Mechanical here.

This should get you started!!

I would like to suggest you to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-xugzyp5o, that be a clue to your query.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_I_write_scripts_to_automate_the_ANSYS_user_interface

Also read about its limitations for example : https://storage.ansys.com/act/v193/ACTKnownIssues.pdf

Hi Gilad Nave ,

You get to be careful when you are writing script in Notepad++. Sometimes Notepad++ doesn't do a good job on indentation and for that reason the Python script can't be run properly. This thing happened to me before and I did not know what was really wrong until I realized that the problem is with the indentations. As far as I remember you can fix the indentation problem by doing the followings:

press Ctrl+H

in "Find what:" put four spaces

in "Replace with:" write "/t"

change the search mode to reflect "Extended"

heat "Replace All" button.

This should fix the indentation problem.

I hope you already looked that the link that Muhammad Ali put in his comment, I provided more information in there. Also, I attached the latest document that I have for ACT programming in Mechanical here.

This should get you started!!

Thank you Hamidreza Ahmadi Moghaddam and Muhammad Ali .

I appreciate your help.

I followed the attached links and tips.

I think that my current problem is that my university account does not have an ACT developer capabilities.

In the 'manage extension' tab I can only see the binary files (.wbex).

I contacted the IT department but haven't received a response yet.

Sincerely,

Gilad

Gilad Nave ,

As far as I know, you need a proper license for compiling a script version of ACT to a Binary one and not sure if you really need a specific license to see the script ones.

I'm using an enterprise version and can't really tell what would be the difference. However, I put an example for you to try on your computer to check if everything is OK. You need to put it at the following path.

C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v194\Addins\ACT\extensions

Let me know if you had any problem with it.

Hamidreza Ahmadi Moghaddam ,

I tried your files and it's working!

I will compare the files and see what was a possible problem, maybe with how I saved mine.

Thank you again and I'll keep update.

Sincerely,

Gilad