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[Ingmar van Dijk]

Hi all,

Experienced engineer but notive programmer here. I code directly into the python console in ansys mechanical. I'd like to make some functions I can always import and call to clean up my code.

However, a standard function doesn't know what to do with ANSYS commands. 

Can somebody help me write this example:

The external function is something like:

def lights():
    ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Ambient=0.4

And I call it like this:

#Import sys for system and imp for importlib. In Python3 it is importlib instead imp.
import sys
import imp

#Set your path where your python files are, for example my test folder for random ansys stuff
path = r"R:\OF_EN\SUS\_DOC\Tools\FEA\700-FEM-ANSYS-Python\Mech-Functions"

#Check if path exists. Without check it will always add the path and create a bunch of bullshit
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)

#Import your library you want
import TestFunction as tester
#import SetLightning as lights

#IMPORTANT: reload your library. If you dont, you dont see changes in your code
imp.reload(tester)
#imp.reload(lights)

tester.lights()

This of course doesn't work as the function is trying to perform a function that doesn't do anything at that external location.

Help on how to fix this is much apprechated!

Thanks in advance,

Ingmar