Create and export contact tool results for all time steps

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

Using ACT scripting, I would like to create a contact tool pressure result for all contacts with names ending by "YES". Then I would like to export the contact pressure results to a text file, for each time step.

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

The following script can be adapted to do this:

• Define path to where results will be exported:

    FilePath="C:\Users\pmaroneh\Downloads\"
    FileExtension=r".txt" 
  

• Reference some necessary items:

    analysis =  ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0] # change number of analysis if necessary
    solution = analysis.Solution   
    connections = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Connections
  

• In connections, find children that are contacts and create a list of these contact regions:

    contactList = connections.GetChildren(DataModelObjectCategory.ContactRegion,True)
  

• From this list, create another list for contacts which name end by "YES":

    myContactList = [contact for contact in contactList if str(contact.Name).endswith("YES")]
  

• For contacts in myContactList, create a contact tool / pressure result:

    listContactIds=[contact.ObjectId for contact in contactList] # list of ids of items in contactList
    pressureList=[]
    for contact in myContactList: # loop on all contacts in myContactList
        newContactTool = solution.AddContactTool() # add a Contact Tool    
        # remove all scoped contacts
        for id in listContactIds:
            newContactTool.InternalObject.RemoveScopedContact(id)
        # add scoping for contact
        newContactTool.InternalObject.AddScopedContact(contact.ObjectId)
        # add a pressure result
        pressure = newContactTool.AddPressure()
        # change result name
        pressure.Name="ContactPressure_" + contact.Name
        # store reference to result to reuse it later
        pressureList.append(pressure)
  

• Loop on all time steps and export results:

    resultData = analysis.GetResultsData()
    dataSets=resultData.ListTimeFreq # get result sets
    for resultSet in range(len(dataSets)):
        displayTime=dataSets[resultSet] # select display time
        unitTime='[sec]'
        # loop on pressure results
        for result in pressureList:    
            # change display time 
            result.DisplayTime=Quantity(str(displayTime) + unitTime)
            # evaluate result
            result.EvaluateAllResults()
            # export result
            result.ExportToTextFile(FilePath+result.Name+"_Time_"+str(displayTime)+FileExtension)
  

Shashidhar Reddy

Hi Pernelle Marone-Hitz, Thanks for the script. But I have observed that the processing time increases with increase in number of contacts. This might be because of for loop that is used to remove all scoped contacts before assigning required contacts.

Can you please suggest some ways to reduce this processing time?