Save in Mechanical with script

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A customer wouuld like to save their model with a script. They have found:

Ansys.ACT.Interfaces.UserInterface.IRenderer.ShowSaveDialog()

But the documentation is lacking.

Anyone have an experience with this command or how to get the save dialog to pop up with scripting?

Ayush Kumar

You need the UIRenderer object from your project. This will work:

ExtAPI.UserInterface.UIRenderer.ShowSaveDialog()

ExtAPI.UserInterface.UIRenderer.ShowSaveDialog.__doc__
'ShowSaveDialog(self: UIRenderer, filter: str, folder: str) -> str
\n'
ExtAPI.UserInterface.UIRenderer.ShowSaveDialog(".txt", r"D:\Path\to\my\folder")

Chemsdine CHEMAI

To save, you can use :

From Mechanical :

cmd="""DS.Script.doFileSaveProject()"""
ExtAPI.Application.ScriptByName("jscript").ExecuteCommand(cmd)

From the project page, it can be found using the recording (“Save” command)

Aria

Running this following script asynchronously via journaling will save the WB project via Mechanical.

journalEngine = ExtAPI.Application.ScriptByName("journaling")
journalEngine.ExecuteCommandAsync('Save(FilePath=r"C:\my_proj.wbpj", Overwrite = True)')

wbjn.ExecuteCommand runs the command synchronously meaning we make a call from Mechanical that waits for Workbench to respond, in this instance Workbench makes a call back to Mechanical and waits for it to respond. We end up in a deadlock, Mechanical is busy trying to execute the original command and Workbench can't actually save without Mechanical responding to it, which is why Mechanical crashes when using the synchronous method of injecting the WB commands.

Rohith Patchigolla

Expanding on script example from @Chemsdine CHEMAI , we can also use the below to use save as option instead of save.

cmd="""DS.Script.doFileSaveProjectAs()"""
ExtAPI.Application.ScriptByName("jscript").ExecuteCommand(cmd)