Extension Manager
Use the Extension Manager to create custom extensions, load extensions automatically, and add custom documentation for defined features.
Support Features
- Custom, user-defined extensions written in OML, C++ or Python.
- Flexible User Interface to manage the extensions in the application.
- Automatic loading of extensions along with a product or extension.
- Addition or removal of extensions from user-defined locations.
- Searching of extensions by name.
Extension Specification
- Specify multiple profiles that you want to support.
- Specify a minimum supported version.
- Specifiy documentation using a local file or WEB link.
- Preserve the loaded or unloaded status of extensions between sessions.
Create Extensions
Create extensions with .xml plugin files.
Extension Template
Location of Extensions
By default, the extensions are automatically detected when saved to <username>/Documents/Altair/extensions/, but you can also add other search paths.
Custom Help
- Select: .
- Create a Help page in HTML format, name it with the name given in the plugin.xml file and save it to this directory: <username>/Documents/Altair/extensions/.