Is there a way to change the visual properties (ex. color) of a connection beams in Mechanical using

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Is there a way to change the visual properties (ex. color) of a connection beams in Mechanical using Scripting API?

M · Answer

I am guessing the reason is the strict meaning of beams and points in FEM. Beams are lines (or two points with a few properties defining an object between them) and don't have a surface, points are points, again, no surface.

Naturally the graphics allow something to show (or a GUI wouldn't make sense) but they didn't go so far as to enable default surfaces for enhanced plotting.

What I see is if you have a shell or solid element, you can change the color. Beams/points/nodes, does not seem possible.

With a some unecessary extra work, one could add colored lines and spheres to a mechanical graphic and someone with too much time on their hands could write some script to do it automatically for all beams/points in a model.

Josselin GUEDON · Answer

Hi @Mike.Thompson , hi @Ayush Kumar ,

Has this evolved since this time ?

One customer is asking whether there is a way to change the point mass sphere color.

Instead of having it kept grey.

BR,

Josselin

Mike.Thompson · Answer

I don't think so.  In theory you could do your own custom graphics to make a cylinder and change the color, but I think the color of the Mechanical beam is not available for change even in the UI (as of 24.2)