

The folder ans_cmd containins an HTML document for each APDL command. There you will find many subfolders, but only two folders were for me of particular interest: ans_cmd and ans_elem. The Ansys Help can be typically found at C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v160\commonfiles\help\en-us\help. Therefore, I will address the structuring of Ansys Help in the following. In addition, one must understand a how the Ansys Help system is structured. You just have to know the customization options in Sublime Text for which there are plenty of examples on the net. For this you have to activate additional filters, and only then you will get there.įor this reason I have asked myself the question whether there is a possibility, for a particular APDL command to invoke the Ansys Help directly from Sublime Text. the D-Command) is very difficult to find the corresponding help file. Particularly with very short APDL commands (e.g. With the new plug-in APDL, programming is fun and it is no longer so easy to make syntax errors.īut what if, despite all the new APDL syntax features, you don't exactly remember, what arguments are expected for a specific command? Or what if you don't remember what Key Options has an element type? You have to first open the Ansys Help, enter the APDL command in the search box and then select from a list of hits the correct help link.

The SublimeText editor is currently the likely to be the most advanced text editor on the market. In a previous blog post I introduced a new plug-in that extends the Sublime Text Editor with a syntax-detection, auto completion, auto argument notes as well as an expandable menu for Ansys APDL scripting language.
