How to change legend values of a contour in Mechanical with scripting?

Rohith Patchigolla

I would like to change the legend values either all at once or just one value at a time in Mechanical for a result contour. How can do it via Mechanical Scripting?

Rohith Patchigolla

Here are example scripts for modifying legends for a stress result. Change the units accordingly for other result types.

Change all the 10 values at once for a standard 9 Band legend. If skipping a particular value, simply replace it as None.

#Automated Script
#10 Values for a standard Legend with 9 Bands
#Blank can be input as None
legendVals = [None,1,1.2,1.4,1.6,1.8,2,2.4,2.8,None]

def changeLegend(data):
    legendSettings = Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.Tools.CurrentLegendSettings()
    i = 1
    for val in legendVals:
        if val != None:
            print i
            if i < len(legendVals):
                print "if"
                legendSettings.SetLowerBound(i-1, Quantity(val,"MPa"))
            else:
                print "else"
                legendSettings.SetUpperBound(i-2, Quantity(val,"MPa"))
        i += 1    

changeLegend(legendVal)

Change legend values just for a particular Band of the legend (numbering from bottom - starts at 1)

#Manual Script

# Select the Band Number (from bottom)
BandNum = 2

#Lower_or_upper_bounds
LowerLegendVal = 1.2
UpperLegendVal = None

legendSettings = Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.Tools.CurrentLegendSettings()
if LowerLegendVal != None:
    legendSettings.SetLowerBound(BandNum-1, Quantity(LowerLegendVal,"MPa"))
if UpperLegendVal != None:
    legendSettings.SetUpperBound(BandNum-1, Quantity(UpperLegendVal,"MPa"))