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[akash.purushothaman]

Whenever an entity is selected in Ansys Mechanical, it's information is shown in the Selection Information Tab.

I would like to know how to access the Selection Information tab using Iron Python, so I would like to extract data from the table or can export the data to a text file.

Thanks

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

 

 

 

Hi

 

Selection Information data can not be accessed via act scripting.

The best way to do this, is to do/run as follows (once a face is selected run script – script can be changed to look on body or edge information)

face_sel = ExtAPI.SelectionManager.CurrentSelection
faceIds=[]
geometry = ExtAPI.DataModel.GeoData
assemblies = geometry.Assemblies
for assembly in assemblies:
        assembly_name = assembly.Name
        parts = assembly.Parts
        parts_count = parts.Count
        for part in parts:
            part_name = part.Name
            bodies = part.Bodies
            bodies_count = bodies.Count
            for body in bodies:
                faces = body.Faces
                faces_count = faces.Count
                for face in faces:
                    fid=face.Id
                    try:
                        if fid == face_sel.Ids[0]:
                            print(“exist : face ” + str(fid))
                            faceIds.append(fid)
                            print(face.Area)
                            print(“X: ” + str(face.Centroid[0]))
                            print(“Y: ” + str(face.Centroid[1]))
                            print(“Z: ” + str(face.Centroid[2]))
                            print(body.Name)
                            print(face.SurfaceType)
                            print(face.Id)
                    except:
                        print(“Select a face!”)

 

 

 

 

[akash.purushothaman]

Hi,

But I am looking for a method to access the data in the table shown below. 

This tab of Selection Information is activated when an entity is selected.

In manual process, we select the required nodes and in the Selection Information Tab, we change the coordinate system to get the transformed coordinates to a different system.

I am trying to achieve the same through ACT