Access Visible Properties of a Mechanical Object and Modify their Internal Values

George Tzortzopoulos

How to access the visible properties of a Mechanical object and modify their internal values?

George Tzortzopoulos

Let a Surface Force Density object under a Harmonic Response analysis in Mechanical. Here is its Details window:

In order to access this object via Mechanical scripting, the following command could be issued:

sfd = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(DataModelObjectCategory.ImportedSurfaceForceDensity)[0]

Its properties, shown in the screenshot above, can be accessed using this command:

sfd.VisibleProperties

In order to modify the Source Frequency property from Worksheet to All, this command could be used:

sfd.PropertyByName("PROPID_AnsoftTimeDefinition").InternalValue = 0 # 0: All, 1: Range, 2: Worksheet

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Related, when I try:

print print "Contacts = ", oConnections.PropertyByName("Contacts").InternalValue

I get the error "Sequence contains no elements"
But when I cycle through all the properties, the property and value are there:

oConnections = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Connections
oProperties = oConnections.VisibleProperties
#
for oProp in oProperties:
print " "
print "--------------------------------------"
print " Property name: ", oProp.Name
print "--------------------------------------"
print " caption (actual display name): ", oProp.Caption
print " internal value = ", oProp.InternalValue
print " read only= ", oProp.ReadOnly
print " visible = ", oProp.Visible
print " APIName = ", oProp.APIName
#

This fails with "Sequence contains no elements"

print "Contacts = ", oConnections.PropertyByName("Contacts").InternalValue

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Yikes, how do we edit our posts? I have two "print print" that is wrong and the "This fails with..." jumps up in bold for some unknown reason (two hashtags in a row causes bold font?).
I promise to learn "Markdown" or something similar in the future.