Edit a current plot screen

Zach Dyer

I am looking for a way in mechanical dpf to change a current plot (eg a stress contour plot). I want to change the tile of the plot, etc. I am bringing in csv results using the csv plot extension and want to be able to change the titles from default names like "Res 194").

Thinking there must be an API to edit the current plot.

Thanks!

Mike.Thompson

@Zach Dyer ,

You may want to check out this post I did for working with .csv data. If you use a python result object, the title will be the name of the object in the tree, so you can effectively set it to whatever you like.

There is a plug-n-play python results object in this example that will be able to plot contours from a .csv file, so perhaps you can use this instead of the ACT app.

How to work with .csv data in Mechanical: Export, Import and plot

Mike.Thompson

Aug 16, 2023

There is often a need to work with data in a .csv format (comma delimited text file). You can store results, import conditions etc…

This attached analysis uses python code and results objects to:

1. Automatically export displacements to a .csv file on solve
2. Import from a .csv file to create a displacement condition for each node on a face
3. Plot data directly from a .csv file onto nodes, allowing user to plot any arbitrary data on a given mesh.

   https://us.v-cdn.net/6037473/uploads/ITPKL9XXIXSI/import-export-displacements-to-csv.wbpz

The first analysis exports the data, while the second one imports it as a condition and plots it from a .csv directly. You will need to update the CSV file path selections in the import/plotting objects for your local paths after solving the first analysis.

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Zach Dyer

Zach Dyer

Wow thanks @Mike.Thompson this is perfect. And good to hear from you!