Using Mechanical scripting, how do I search for objects in the tree?

Landon Mitchell Kanner

For example, how would I get a pressure load named MyPressure or all Named Selections scoped to nodes?

kanchan_cadfem

I think, the Tree.Find has more potential in this case

Tree.Find(string name, Func[IDataModelObject, bool] func, string tag,ObjectState state)

Gets a list of all objects with the specified parameters.

Remarks: Note that all parameters of Find are optional.

Name: Defaults to ""

Func: Defaults to null

Tag: Defaults to ""

State: Defaults to ObjectState.NoState

Example: The following command finds all objects with an state of Suppressed.

ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.Find(state=ObjectState.Suppressed)

Example: The following command finds all objects with a name of "Force" and a tag of "Load".

ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.Find(name="Force", tag="Load")

Example: The following command finds all objects with the name "Pressure", the function "defineByVector",

the Tag "Test", and a ObjectState of Suppressed.

def defineByVector(obj):
    if (obj.DefineBy == LoadDefineBy.Vector):
        return True
    return False
ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.Find(name="Pressure", func=defineByVector, tag="Test", state=ObjectState.Suppressed)

Landon Mitchell Kanner

Here are two useful methods for searching for objects in the Mechanical tree:

ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType()
ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByName()

Let's take a look at their usage in the context of your examples. To get the pressure loads named MyPressure:

objs_named_MyPressure = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByName('MyPressure')
all_pressure_load_objs = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.BoundaryConditions.Pressure)
pressure_objs_named_MyPressure = [i for i in objs_named_MyPressure if i in all_pressure_load_objs]
pressure_objs_named_MyPressure 

Note that pressure_objs_named_MyPressure will be a list of all the pressure objects named MyPressure. If we are only listed in the 1st such object:

MyObj = pressure_objs_named_MyPressure[0]

To get all Named Selections scoped to nodes:

NSs = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(DataModelObjectCategory.NamedSelection)
node_NSs = [ns for ns in NSs if ns.Location.SelectionType == ns.Location.SelectionType.MeshNodes]

Note that there are two different ways to specify the argument for GetObjectsByType(), which have both been demonstrated in the above examples: You can either use the full object type or the DataModelObjectCategory. To get the full object type, select a representative object in the tree and run the following command in the scripting console:

Tree.FirstActiveObject.GetType()

Alternatively, you can browse for a DataModelObjectCategory by typing

 DataModelObjectCategory.

in the scripting console and searching for the appropriate option: