It certainly brings possibilities for utilizing Ansys in new ways. With all these resources, it should be possible for any interested person to get started. You need a plugin in Excel called xlwings (see ). If you are familiar with APDL, it is relatively easy to get started with running analyses from Excel. The name of the channel is Ansys Learning. Ansys also has some very instructional videos on YouTube, including an introductory course in Python. Here you will find examples, getting started guides and other resources you need. If you want to learn more about pyAnsys, the first place to check out is. The packages released so far include pyDPF and packages to interact with Fluent, Electronics Desktop, Mechanical APDL. PyAnsys is evolving, and we can expect more packages to be released with each version. This way, a designer can run Ansys analyses without actually learning the program. For example, you could use Excel to create variations of a design or run “what-if” analyzes.

Another case is if you want to run Ansys from other programs. That can typically be a type of loading or results that you miss, or maybe you want to automate the setup of models. Who should use pyAnsys? If you need to customize any Ansys program, then pyAnsys is probably the solution.

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