In Mechanical scripting, how do I export results as an .avz file?

Landon Mitchell Kanner

I want to loop over all result objects in Mechanical, create a 3D AVZ file (.avz) for each, and save them in the user directory.

Landon Mitchell Kanner

import wbjn
import os
userdirectory = wbjn.ExecuteCommand(ExtAPI,'returnValue(GetUserFilesDirectory())')
results =ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(DataModelObjectCategory.Result)
#loop over the results
for result in results:
    result.Activate()
    mvm = ExtAPI.Graphics.ModelViewManager
    avzFilename = os.path.join(userdirectory,'{}.avz'.format(result.Name))
    mvm.Capture3DImage(avzFilename)

Mike.Thompson

In the case you have an object with characters not safe for a file path you can use this:

import string

def GetFileSafeName(Name):
    safechars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits + '.- '
    filename = ''.join([c if c in safechars else "_" for c in Name])
    return filename