Learn to efficiently combine Mechanical automation scripting and MAPDL scripting for a better post-processing workflow.

This Script Tip Friday is brought to you by Ayush Kumar who is a Senior Application Engineer here at Ansys. Ayush will cover how to plot Stress Gradient on a path normal to the selected face at the selected node using PyDPF.

What is the optimal location to place a component on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), in terms of its reliability under shock, vibration, and other environmental conditions?

Numbers in Python are quite simple, there are only 3 base numeric types and they can all be combined freely without (inherent) errors. In this post I go over some information you'll probably know and some you might not. Read on for info about numbers!

One of the first things you learn in Python is that it passes references around when assigning things. It does not copy things in memory. So, how do you actually do copying? Well there's a built-in library to do it! copy.

In this article I want to shine a light on one of the smaller and more useful packages in the Python standard library. Hopefully you know it already, but if you're coming across it for the first time, read on! This is all about getpass...

We cover the steps for converting the Nodal Coordinates Field to Local Coordinate System using PyDPF.

A huge part of any Python developer's arsenal is the ability to link your Python program with "other stuff".

For this week's Script Tip Friday, Fabio Pavia, discusses how you can design for an optimal mould shape in 3 steps using partner tools for composites connected to Ansys Mechanical.