ANSYS Mechanical Embedded API - Vector Principal Stress Coordinate System Creation

1980c3

Folks,
I have a vector principal stress direction scoped to a single node within a solution combination result.

Is it possible to automate the creation of the aligned coordinate system?

Thanks,

Stu

P.S. What is the best way to hone my ANSYS API programming skills? I know it predominately IronPython. If I studied IronPython, would that be helpful?

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Landon Mitchell Kanner

Most items in the context menu that appear after a right-click in the UI can be found in the context_menu module. The methods in this module general take ExtAPI as an argument. In your case:

VP1.Activate()
ExtAPI.SelectionManager.NewSelection(VP1.Location) ## recommend checking that VP1 is scoped to 1 node
import context_menu

context_menu.DoCreateAlignedCoordinateSystem(ExtAPI)

Landon Mitchell Kanner

What is the best method for accomplishing the activation of the node of interest (so that the aligned csys is scoped to the node)?

ExtAPI.SelectionManager.NewSelection(VP1.Location)

You might also want to activate the vector principal stress result object in the tree:

VP1.Activate()

What is the best way to hone my ANSYS API programming skills? I know it predominately IronPython. If I studied IronPython, would that be helpful?

I would suggest the 'Introduction to Python' and 'Ansys Mechanical Scripting' courses in the Ansys Learning Hub (ALH):
https://jam8.sapjam.com/groups/TRNfdrj7rnvfSWo2VAVxt2/overview_page/WszKQm9S3J7FYnt6bOn5Tt

If you don't have subscription to the ALH, some of the materials are also available for free on the Ansys Innovation Space (AIS):
https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/python/

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Chris Harrold

@AKD-Scripting-Team - can one of you help out here?

Landon Mitchell Kanner

Most items in the context menu that appear after a right-click in the UI can be found in the context_menu module. The methods in this module general take ExtAPI as an argument. In your case:

VP1.Activate()
ExtAPI.SelectionManager.NewSelection(VP1.Location) ## recommend checking that VP1 is scoped to 1 node
import context_menu

context_menu.DoCreateAlignedCoordinateSystem(ExtAPI)

1980c3

Thanks Landon.

What is the best method for accomplishing the activation of the node of interest (so that the aligned csys is scoped to the node)?

Landon Mitchell Kanner

What is the best method for accomplishing the activation of the node of interest (so that the aligned csys is scoped to the node)?

ExtAPI.SelectionManager.NewSelection(VP1.Location)

You might also want to activate the vector principal stress result object in the tree:

VP1.Activate()

What is the best way to hone my ANSYS API programming skills? I know it predominately IronPython. If I studied IronPython, would that be helpful?

If you don't have subscription to the ALH, some of the materials are also available for free on the Ansys Innovation Space (AIS):
https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/python/

1980c3

Thanks Landon! That did the trick.