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The Extension Builder in Discovery is a tool designed to create tailor-made extensions. With this powerful tool, you can effortlessly incorporate buttons and tools into groups and tabs on the ribbon. By importing or writing scripts, you can unleash the potential of your custom tools and buttons to execute an extensive array of tasks within Discovery.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the examples of customized tools in Ansys Discovery.<\/p>\n

Centerline Method:<\/strong>
\nThis centerline extraction is a tool to extract centerline of a tube\/pipe (circular section) with an automatic and a manual way.
\n-The automatic mode tries to automatically find the direction driving the extraction among the selection.
\n-The manual mode requires to select the reference face, and a curve or edge as path.<\/p>\n

Merge Curves:<\/strong>
\nThe merge is a tool to transform many disconnected curves into one unique spline.<\/p>\n

Organize Tools: Instances<\/strong>
\nThe Instances is a tool to create instances (components) from identical bodies. When the result of the selection is shown, you can still adjust your selection by adding or removing some bodies.
\nThe name and the color of the new instance can be set in the option panel.<\/p>\n

Selection: Eye<\/strong>
\nSelect faces by their normal orientations.<\/p>\n

Bridge:<\/strong>
\nThe bridge is a tool to create a connection between 2 STL vertices with a curve or a surface if the selection is done with edges, a kind of loft for facets.<\/p>\n

Regions:<\/strong>
\nThe Regions tool creates Facet’s regions based on bodies proximity.<\/p>\n

Bushing:<\/strong>
\nCreate a bushing boundary condition.<\/p>\n

Remote:<\/strong>
\nThis tool can create a remote force on a local coordinate system and also create a remote mass from a body(ies) selection.<\/p>\n

Download the Tools extension from the link provided. You will then have to enable the .dstool to use these tools in Discovery. Below are the instructions to load the extension:<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to File menu >> Settings >> Extensions.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Click to select a .dstool to load at startup and restart Discovery. (Note:<\/strong> Adding a new .dstool or enabling\/disabling an existing .dstool requires a restart of Discovery.)<\/li>\n
  3. Once installed, enable or disable specified .dstools as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Launch Discovery and you should see the Tools in the Ribbon tab:<\/p>\n

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    Please refer the help documentation to get more information on various options, examples of Extension Builder tool.<\/p>\n

    To learn more about scripting check out the Discovery scripting learning content. To learn about creating custom experiences for your company contact your Ansys sales representative.<\/p>\n

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