Mechanical Export Material views

M

Can you export the material views with scripting?

A customer would like a image of the of the material props (right red box) as seen below.

All of the Graphics.ExportImage or ExportScreenToImage seem to only export the geometry. (Naturally 99% of the customers want the geometry plot, but this customer wants to put the materials image into a report).

My current script:

import os
saveDir = r"D:\"
pxDim = [1200,1000]
matList = [i for i in Model.Materials.Children]

def TakeScreenshot(args):
    h = args[1][0]
    w = args[1][1]
    Graphics.Camera.SetFit() #?
    totalPath = os.path.join(args[0], args[2] + '.png')
    ExtAPI.Graphics.ExportScreenToImage(totalPath)
    showAll()
    
for mat in matList:
    mat.Activate()
    ExtAPI.Application.InvokeUIThread(TakeScreenshot, [saveDir, pxDim, mat.Name])

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

@M I don't think that's exposed; unfortunately, and I cannot agree more with your comment that we should be able to export other screenshots than the geometry. The only solution I can think of here is taking a picture of the entire screen. That's not  a robust solution as you'll have to adjust the number of pixels and position .... I think @Chemsdine CHEMAI has done this already

M

@Chemsdine CHEMAI  yes, I started that path. I have a new widescreen monitor and the results were a bit unwieldy. Could we use that screenprint to do only a single active window?

M

#grab all material data, create csv

import materials
import webbrowser
import os
saveDir = 'D:/'

if not os.path.isdir(saveDir): # create the directory if not existing
    os.mkdir(saveDir)
    
    
myMatCsv = 'myMats.csv'

matProps = []
matData = {}
matList = [i for i in Model.Materials.Children]

for mat in matList:
    engineeringData = mat.GetEngineeringDataMaterial()
    listMatProp = materials.GetListMaterialProperties(engineeringData)
    matData[mat.Name] = {}
    for prop in listMatProp:
        matProps.append(prop)
        data = materials.GetMaterialPropertyByName(engineeringData,prop)
        try:
            for d in data.keys():
                matData[mat.Name][d] = data[d]
                matProps.append(d)
        except:
            pass
        
r = []
uniqueProps = list(set(matProps))
for m in matData.keys():
    temp = []
    temp.append(m)
    for p in uniqueProps:
        try:
            c1 = matData[m][p]
        except:
            pass
            c1 = 'NA'
        temp.append(c1)
    r.append(temp)

with open(os.path.join(saveDir,myMatCsv),'w') as f:
    colHeaders =[i+', ' for i in uniqueProps] 
    colHeaders = [' ,'] +colHeaders
    f.writelines(colHeaders)
    f.writelines('\n')
    for matline in r:
        aline = [i for i in matline]
        for stuff in aline:
            print(stuff)
            if isinstance(stuff,str):
                f.writelines(stuff)
            else:
                stuff = [f.writelines(str(i) + ' ') for i in stuff]
                
            f.writelines(',')
        f.writelines('\n')

webbrowser.open(os.path.join(saveDir,myMatCsv))