Hi development team,
I am facing issues with ACT Result Reader when I want to get mesh data from RST file, specifically I need to further work with contact elements. Following code returns to mesh_rst variable very frequently None or obviously truncated mesh data:
analysis = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0]
reader = analysis.GetResultsData()
mesh_rst = reader.CreateMeshData()
reader.Dispose()
My questions:
- What are the limitations of
CreateMeshData() method?
- Are there any element types which are not supported?
- Why
None is returned even in case of simple FE models which consist of the structural shell and beam elements, frictional contacts and bolt pretension elements?
I am aware about DPF workround but first of all I would like to understand the strange behaviour of the ACT.
import mech_dpf
import Ans.DataProcessing as dpf
data_sources = dpf.DataSources(analysis.ResultFileName)
model_dpf = dpf.Model(data_sources)
mesh_dpf = model_dpf.Mesh
Thanks for your feedback.
