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Hi I would like to read excel file in ACP, but I'm not able to import for example openpyxl module. I need to use excel because of some further calculations in it. Is there any way how to install this package?
I have some element sets defined in ACP: I would like a Python script that will: loop on all these elements in these specific element sets find the centroid of these elements create a 3D lookup table for the centroids, and define a Fiber Volume Fraction with the value set at as the last part of the name of the element set…
Hi, Is it possible to call the object generator tool within an IronPython script? I am trying to use Python code to automate creating repetitive contacts and the object generator is great at doing that with just a few named selections. I would like to pass the named selections through the script and have the object…
How do I export Nastran File from Mechanical to a user defined path?
Using ACT scripting inside mechanical how can we export a Nastran file to a specific folder?
Hi, I want to change the power nets to signal nets in edb api. I could not find a method in the documentation for this. I would appreciate if anyone knows how to do it. Thanks
I am running a simulation for which I create figures for various results. I want to export them for each design point. How can I do this?
Hello team, I'm creating a script that gets the stress values in elements defined by element Id and would like to compare the stress values with the ultimate ones for material automatically. So, I wonder how to get the values of material properties for the element with a defined Id using Mechanical API or DPF? Thanks
How do I get the element types/material types of all the elements a node is shared by using DPF?
How can we automatically assign thickness values defined in a csv file to surfaces in Spaceclaim?
In ANSYS Mechanical, we can make the mass of all bodies as a parameter, but, if one wants mass of a multibody Part or an assembly, the Parameter option is not available.
Hi for a long time I'm wondering if it is possible to create small toolbar entries for my ACT extension. I'm able to create only big buttons (Supports), but not the small entries (Fixet, Frictionless, ....) Does some way exist, how to do it? Thanks
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This forum is a Vanilla forum, and we use the Vanilla "rich editor", however, it can be a little unclear how to use it initially. How do you use it?
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