How to get automatically x y z node locations and corresponding x y z displacements?

Erik Kostson

How can we read into arrays the x y z node locations and x y z displacements at these nodes?

Erik Kostson

There are many ways of doings this.

Two possible ways are by using mechanical scripting.

The first way is to use GetResultsData as shown here:

https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/2544/how-can-i-using-scripting-get-displacements-as-function-of-time-at-certain-areas

Readapt the above to include more directions ( displacements).

Another way is via the code shown below and at the end of this post (Readapt script to include more directions ( displacements).

We can also use DPF to do this - the following code (see link below) can be easily adapted to read displacements instead of temperatures (e.g., use dpf.operators.result.displacement_Y for y-disp).

https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/2383/print-temperatures-node-ids-and-locations-using-dpf-inside-mechanical

Script mentioned above (exports and reads data back into arrays):

analysis=ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0]
solution=analysis.Solution
dirdef=solution.AddDirectionalDeformation() # add as many times as needed for x, y, z
dirdef.NormalOrientation=NormalOrientationType.ZAxis
solution.EvaluateAllResults()
dirdef.ExportToTextFile("D:/dispz.csv")

#read data in from export file above
import csv
nodenr=[]
cx=[]
cy=[]
cz=[]
dirdis=[]
with open("D:/dispz.csv", 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    next(reader)
    for row in reader:
        print(row)
        nodenr.append(row[0].split('\t')[0])
        cx.append(row[0].split('\t')[1])
        cy.append(row[0].split('\t')[2])
        cz.append(row[0].split('\t')[3])
        dirdis.append(row[0].split('\t')[4])