Hi everyone,
I am having some trouble exporting stress results when working with beams in Ansys Mechanical.
I am working with a beam model and solving a Static Structural analysis.
In Workbench, I can insert a Stress Result contour plot which shows the stresses over the cross-section. I can use the Probe tool to probe/annotate individual cell section nodes as shown in the image below.
I can use the scripting interface to access the contour plot data using
result=Tree.FirstActiveObject
plotDataResult= result.PlotData
However,
- the data does not contain the spatial location of each result (e.g., coordinates of the cell section nodes)
- the data seems unsorted.
I would like to export two text files with the following information:
File 1 (data stored in result.PlotData)
Columns: Node, Element, Value
File 2:
Node, Element, CellSectionNode, CellSectionNode-X, CellSectionNode-Y, CellSectionNode-Z
*where CellSectionNode-X/Y/Z are the spatial coordinates of the cell nodes in the beam cross-section *.
The coordinates of the cell section nodes must be stored or calculated internally, as Workbench can display the contour results over the beam cross-section. However, I have not been able to figure out how to access this information programmatically.
Is there a way to access this data:
Through the Workbench scripting interface?
As part of a Python result object?
Using an APDL snippet?
Any advice or pointers to relevant documentation would be greatly appreciated!
