Calling Image to Clipboard from Script

Nick Ramseyer

I am looking to try to call the "Image To Clipboard" function from ACT scripting in Ansys Mechanical Python scripting. I've looked through the toolbar module and haven't found a way to call this function.

The context is that I am aware of the graphics export function that can be called from ExtAPI.Graphics, however the graphics saving function takes between 0.3-0.5 seconds to execute which is very slow when saving hundreds of images in a loop. I'm thinking that the copy to clipboard function may be faster but am not sure how to call it from scripting.

ExtAPI.Graphics.ExportImage(directory, GraphicsImageExportFormat.PNG, gset)

Naveen Kumar Begari

@Nick Ramseyer ,

copy to clipboard function may be faster but am not sure how to call it from scripting.?

Use 'ExportImageToClipboard' function to call it

Below code might help you:

image_settings = Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.GraphicsImageExportSettings()
image_settings.CurrentGraphicsDisplay = True
ExtAPI.Graphics.ExportImageToClipboard(image_settings)