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AI Skills: Part 2 - Developing a Skill for sharing and boosting its quality

James Derrick | 10.08.2026

Learn about three tips and tricks for levelling up your Skills now!

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AI Skills: Part 1 - Making and using Skills (the easy way)

James Derrick | 10.08.2026

What's a Skill? How can I get started making and using Skills right now? This article talks a little about how you can get results from your models now.

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Scripting in Mechanical: going further — learning resources and the ACT toolkit

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

This deck deliberately stops after surpassing the beginner stage — its own stated scope excludes ACT extensions, PyAnsys, advanced Python, and MAPDL scripting.

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Scripting in Mechanical: best practices

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

Writing a script that works once is one milestone.

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Scripting in Mechanical: scripting tips that will save you time

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

Knowing the addressing rules is one thing; scripting quickly and without constant trial-and-error is another.

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Scripting in Mechanical: understanding the Mechanical tree

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

Once you've seen one script work end to end, the natural next question is: how do I know how to reach any object in the tree, not just the ones from the example?

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Scripting in Mechanical: your first script — "Hello, Mechanical!" in 10 minutes

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

This article is the payoff of the "for beginners" promise: a complete, working script you can read line by line, understand, and adapt to your own models — built and explained in roughly ten

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Scripting in Mechanical: getting started — what scripting in Ansys Mechanical actually is

milan.redon@an… | 09.03.2026

If you've ever thought "scripting looks useful, but it's not for me," this guide — and this article in particular — is aimed squarely at you.

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Scripting in Mechanical for beginners! The full series

milan.redon@an… | 09.02.2026

This series introduces in-product scripting in Ansys Mechanical, from first scripts and tree navigation through practical working habits, maintainability guidance, and further learning resou

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