How to send commands to Mechanical from Workbench?

Nikos Kallitsis

I have a script that can be executed in Mechanical Scripting. How can I execute the same Mechanical script from Workbench without having an interactive Mechanical session open?

Nikos Kallitsis

To send commands from Workbench to a Mechanical system you can use the SendCommand method which is applied to the Model cell of a System. The format of such script would be something like the below:

# User inputs

system_id = 'SYS'


# Mechanical System

system = GetSystem(Name=system_id)

model = system.GetContainer(ComponentName="Model")


mechScriptCmds="""

# Commands to be executed in Mechanical Scripting here"

"""

model.SendCommand(Language="Python", Command=mechScriptCmds)