How to create load objects in WB LS-DYNA?

Ayush Kumar
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edited June 2023 in Structures

How to create load objects in WB LS-DYNA?

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  • Ayush Kumar
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    Since WB LS-DYNA is itself an ACT extension. The load-objects are ACT load-objects and not native Mechanical. Therefore, one needs to use CreateLoadObject

    Eg:

    analysis = ExtAPI.DataModel.AnalysisList[0]  # Get the analysis object
analysis.CreateLoadObject("Section", "LSDYNA")
analysis.CreateLoadObject("Hourglass", "LSDYNA")
analysis.CreateLoadObject("ContactProperty", "LSDYNA")

    Properties:

    section = analysis.CreateLoadObject("Section", "LSDYNA")
selection = ExtAPI.SelectionManager.CreateSelectionInfo(SelectionTypeEnum.GeometryEntities)
selection.Ids = [16]
section.Properties['Geometry/DefineBy/Geo'].Value = selection
  • Aria
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    To add on the previous response, in order to add an LS-Dyna load object, the correct header has to be activated. For the examples in Ayush's snippet, analysis.Activate() needs to be added:

    # 
analysis = ExtAPI.DataModel.AnalysisList[0]  # Get the analysis object
analysis.Activate()
analysis.CreateLoadObject("Section", "LSDYNA")
analysis.CreateLoadObject("Hourglass", "LSDYNA")
analysis.CreateLoadObject("ContactProperty", "LSDYNA")

    In these cases, these load objects are found under the analysis list. For object such as rigid bodies, it is found under DataModel:

    expRB = ExtAPI.DataModel.CreateObject("ExplicitRigidBodies",'LSDYNA')

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