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Drive Ansys Mechanical from sim.

What you can do

Section titled “What you can do”
  • Open a live, observable session — Mechanical launches with its GUI window visible, so an agent can act on the model and a human can watch the same window.
  • Send Python snippets to the live model — apply geometry edits, materials, mesh controls, loads, boundary conditions, solves, and result extraction one snippet at a time, without leaving the session.
  • Visual verification — sim screenshot captures the live Mechanical window so an agent can confirm what the model actually looks like between steps, even when other windows are in the foreground.
  • Inspect model state — structured queries return parts, geometry, materials, and result quantities for an agent to reason over.
  • Headless mode — for CI / batch use, launch without a GUI window. Snippet execution and inspection still work; visual probes don’t.

Install

Section titled “Install”
Terminal window
sim plugin install mechanical
sim drivers | grep mechanical

Quick start

Section titled “Quick start”
Terminal window
sim connect --solver mechanical --mode mechanical --ui-mode gui
sim exec '<your Mechanical Python snippet>'
sim screenshot
sim inspect session.summary
sim disconnect

Headless variant:

Terminal window
sim connect --solver mechanical --mode mechanical --ui-mode no_gui

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • A licensed Ansys Mechanical install on the host
  • Network access to cdn.svdailab.com for the install step

Not the same as abaqus

Section titled “Not the same as abaqus”

Use the Mechanical plugin for Ansys Mechanical workflows. For Dassault SIMULIA Abaqus input decks or CAE scripts, use abaqus.