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[m.vp2209]

Hello, I am trying to automate a workflow in Workbench and would be grateful for some ideas. At the moment my simulation solves several transient thermal analyses, in which the solution temperature distrubution of an analysis A is imported an initial condition for the next B analysis. The geometry is not the same and therefore I am importing the initial temperature condition via an external data block in WB. This process is very tedious to do manually and I have managed to create a button using ACT Scriptting in Mechanical to export my temeprature profiles to txt files. But now I have to press the button manually everytime the solution is obtained. Is there a way to make Mechanical export the data directly without me pressing a button? Then for the other task, which is creating and setting up the external data files I have also created a scrip using ACT. I wrote my python script and then make WB read it. This means that I have to read my scrip everytime an analysis is finishes and I want this operation to be performed. Is there a way of making workbench solve my mechanical system A, save the results to txt (without me pressing a button) and directly creating the external data for mechanical system B? To this, is there a way to "enter" mechanical via the python scripting of WB? So I could develop a code that first saves the txt files in system A and directly generates the external data block and imports loads into system B. Thanks in advance!

[Aniket]

 

Hi,

for executing an existing mechanical code, you should be able to use python code object in your model:

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v231/en/wb_sim/ds_python_code_Event.html 

Also, to send Mechanical commands from the workbench you can use:

If the ACT python commands are directly being sent without an extension one can use the SendCommand API https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v231/en/wb2_js/ContainerName30.html:

system = GetSystem(Name=”SYS”) # Specify system name, or
#system = GetAllSystems()[0] # get first system
model = system.GetContainer(ComponentName=”Model”)
model.SendCommand(Language=”Python”, Command=string)

If the python commands that are being sent from Workbench Journal are a part of a Mechanical extension, then use the following commands:

string=”’ExtAPI.ExtensionManager.GetExtensionByName(‘Extension name’).ScriptScope.My_Python_command()”'
model.SendCommand(Language=”Python”, Command=string)

-Aniket

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