How to retrieve Beam element cross section properties?

Ayush Kumar

How to retrieve Beam element cross section properties?

Ayush Kumar

Get the body associated with the element and then the properties of the cross-section assigned to the Geo. Body

body = element.GetBody()
my_cs = filter(lambda x: (body.CrossSection.Name == x.Name), ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.CrossSections)[0].Children)[0]
# Cross-section area
area = my_cs.PropertyByName("CrossSectionArea").StringValue

# Polar moment of inertia Iyy
iyy = my_cs.PropertyByName("CrossSectionIYY").StringValue

# Polar moment of inertia Izz
izz = my_cs.PropertyByName("CrossSectionIZZ").StringValue

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

This solution also show how to extract such information: https://stackoverflow.com/c/ansys-field-engineering/questions/421

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

This solution also show how to extract such information: https://stackoverflow.com/c/ansys-field-engineering/questions/421

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

This solution also show how to extract such information: https://stackoverflow.com/c/ansys-field-engineering/questions/421

Erik Kostson

In case we want to find the body associated with a specific element (myelId below):

model = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model
analysis=model.Analyses[0]
meshData = analysis.MeshData
elemList = meshData.Elements
myelId=14

def getbodyname(myelId):
    for el in elemList:
        if el.Id == myelId:
            body=el.GetBody()
            elid=el.Id
    return body,elid
mybodyel=getbodyname(myelId)
print('Element ' + str(mybodyel[1]) + ' belongs to the body : ' + str(mybodyel[0].Name))

or with the filter:

model = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model
analysis=model.Analyses[0]
meshData = analysis.MeshData
elemList = meshData.Elements
myelId=14


def getbodyname(myelId):
    el = filter(lambda el: (el.Id == myelId), elemList)[0]
    body=el.GetBody()
    elid=el.Id
    return body,elid
mybodyel=getbodyname(myelId)
print('Element ' + str(mybodyel[1]) + ' belongs to the body : ' + str(mybodyel[0].Name))