How to connect to an existing Ansys Mechanical simulation

rbarve17

I want to connect to an Ansys Mechanical simulation to execute ironPython scripts through pyMechanical.

in order to do that, i run this script on the script panel

port = Ansys.ACT.Mechanical.MechanicalAPI.Instance.ApplicationAPI.StartGrpcServer()
print(port)

this would allow me to spawn a GrpcServer on a given port
i then use that port to connect my pyMechanical client to my Ansys Mechanical simulation

My question is: is there an easier way to spawn this GrpcServer?

I was wondering if there would be something similar to a COM interface for Ansys that would allow us to start the grpc server for a running simulation

I wasn't able to find any reference to an Ansys COM interface (for the Student version at least)

can you please help me route me to a solution you would see viable?

Best,
Tawfik

James Derrick

Hi @tawfik that's a really interesting question. Hopefully someone from the @Structures-Scripting-Team will be able to share more about "How to connect to an existing Ansys Mechanical simulation".