How to retrieve the material name of an element in mesh ?
I want to get the material name for each element so ican get it's properties in engineering data. i am using dpf but it only gave me the matid and i don't know how to link it to the name of the material. Thank you in advance. @AKD-Scripting-Team
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@mahmane How about going to from mesh to body and then from body to material. This is possible in the mechanical itself.
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Not necessary from rst, i am using DPF to get the mesh and a Field with a mat_id for each element, but to extract the material propreties i use the libraries "materials" and "EngineeringData" with the name of the material, My problem here is that i can't have the material name by his mat_id. Otherwise i need to try another way as you suggested, do you have a script for that Please?
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element = ExtAPI.DataModel.MeshDataByName('Global').Elements[0] body = element.GetBody() material = body.Material print(material.DisplayName)
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hello Landon,
Very useful script. I wonder is there a way to get material ID? I faced trouble getting it using the function
GetPropertyField("mat")
which doesn't exist in the 21R2 release.Thanks
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material.ID
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Hello Landon,
Maybe I didn't come right... I mean the unique material identifier (matid) which is assigned to each material in ds.dat, for example:
!*********** Model Summary ******************** !Part 12, Structural Steel, matid, 1 !Part 13, Structural Steel, matid, 2 !Part 14, Structural Steel, matid, 3 !Part 133, Structural Steel, matid, 4 !Part 134, Structural Steel, matid, 5 !Part 135, Structural Steel, matid, 6 !*********************** End Model Summary *****************
material.ID doesn't return matid.
Thanks
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The APDL matids are dynamically assigned when the ds.dat is generated (when you click solve) and can vary for each analysis. I am not sure if they are stored anywhere under ExtAPI.DataModel.
You may find this post helpful:
https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/comment/1428#Comment_1428Otherwise, I would suggest creating a new Question on this topic.
@AKD-Scripting-Team, is there an existing post on how to obtain APDL matids in Mechanical?
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