User defined function in ACT console

Ayush Kumar

It is possible to write your own helper functions and they will be available in Mechanical ACT console.

Ayush Kumar

Note: Just an internal trick, not supported.

$AWP_ROOT202/Addins/ACT/libraries/Mechanical contains Python Modules which are loaded by default in Mechanical session. If you create a Python file for example helper.py in this folder, all functions within this file can be directly used in ACT Mechanical Console.

Eg. Content of helper.py:

def get_attributes(attribute_string, object):
    return filter(lambda x: (attribute_string.upper() in x.upper()), dir(object))

Usage in Mechanical ACT console:

import helper
helper.get_attributes("Unit", analysis)

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

Adding a few screenshots to illustrate:

Module is then loaded in Mechanical:

And function can be called:

Pierre Thieffry

Ayush, don’t snippets help here? When you save a script as a snippet, it will appear as a choice in the console.