Can I customize "Rename based on Definition" of results in Mechanical?

Ayush Kumar
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edited June 2023 in Structures

Currently Mechanical application automatically renames the result or Result Tracker based on the selected parts and display time of the result object. Can I add more result object properties in the naming scheme?

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  • Ayush Kumar
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    "Rename based on Definition" is a native functionality so probably customizing this is not directly possible. One can however create a very simple workaround by creating a user-button.

    1. Select all the Tree objects which have to be renamed.
    2. Hit the "Rename" user-button.

    You can access the objects and all their properties in the button (using ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.ActiveObjects) and rename the objects based on whatever property you wish.

    Example code of the user button - where I add LoadStep number to the existing result object name.

    objects = ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.ActiveObjects
for index, res_object in enumerate(objects, start=1):
    res_object.Name += "LS_%s" % res_object.PropertyByName("LoadStep").InternalValue

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