Retrieve values of standard Mechanical through scripting

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

Can we retrieve the values of a standard result in Mechanical through scripting?

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

In 2020R2 a new feature was introduced to retrieve the values of a native result inserted in the Mechanical tree. For example, you can insert from the Mechanical GUI (or through automation scripting) a Equivalent Stress result, choose the averaging option, and then retrieve the values:

    standardVonMises=ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0].Solution.AddEquivalentStress() # insert Equivalent Stress result through automation
    standardVonMises.DisplayOption=ResultAveragingType.Averaged # change averaring option 
    standardVonMises.EvaluateAllResults() # evaluate
    plotData=standardVonMises.PlotData # retrieve plot data -> for averaged option, returns an object containing list of body ids, node numbers, and values.
    plotData[0] # list of body ids
    plotData[1] # list of node ids
    plotData[2] # list of values

For example, if plotData.Values[1][0] returns 159 and plotData.Values[2][0] returns 2.7287E+08 then you know that averaged equivalent stress on node 159 is 2.7287E+08 Pa.