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[prabhukumar]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to automate a process in spaceclaim. My goal is to import an STL file, extrude it and save it as STEP file. I could record the script in the spaceclaim software and it works perfectly fine. I would like to run the script directly from the command terminal without manually opening the software. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

 

Regards,
Prabhu. 

[Aniket Chavan]

If you have your SpaceClaim script and know the container in which SpaceClaim resides (If you don't know you can simply start recording a journal from workbench page, and then open SpaceClaim to get the required information).

myCommand="print 'test'"

container.SendCommand(Language="Python", myCommand)

as explained in the help:

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v195/act_cust_wb/actdev_cap_customworkflow_definetask.html

Also, see:

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v195/wb2_help/wb2h_usingjands.html

Finally, once your workbench python journal is ready, through which you can call SpaceClaim journal, you can use the following command from a windows command prompt:

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v195/wb2_js/wb2js_cmdlineexec.html

-Aniket

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[prabhukumar]

Thanks for the reply. The links you have posted is secured to the customer portal. I am a student and looks like I cannot access the site with a proper license as well?

 

 

[Aniket Chavan]

please check my signature that explains how to access those links for students.

-Aniket

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[prabhukumar]

Hi Aniket, thanks for the reply. 

But I think the response on the link "How to access Ansys Online Help Document" is not working. No browser window is opening with Ansys 17.1 or 18.1. 

I was looking on other links on the student community and found the below link

/forum/forums/topic/links-to-help-go-to-customer-portal-sign-in-page/ where Peter also mentions about the steps for Ansys 19.1 and when I asked him (on that link) that steps doesn't work for 17.1 and 18.1. He replied that older versions of Ansys help were local and newer versions were web based. 

So I cannot access them? 

[Aniket Chavan]

I don't think we had free student version back when we had 17 or 18? Are you using a free student license? 

Links I have given are for 2019R3, you can download the latest version from https://www.ansys.com/academic/free-student-products

Also, the scripting in SpaceClaim in older versions was beta and not work exactly the same as that of the latest versions.

 

[prabhukumar]

I am using the academic license of the university. And have access to Workbench 17.1 and 18.1. 

[Aniket Chavan]

Is there any chance that you can upgrade to latest version that is available free for students?

I am asking this because:

1. we only support latest and 2 major releases before that (even for commercial customers)

2 Many of the scripting capabilities might not be possible in older versions.

 

[prabhukumar]

Thanks for your time. 

 

I got an answer from a youtube video and the following command works to run a sample.py  from the command prompt: 

C:Program FilesANSYS Incv194scdm>spaceclaim.exe /RunScript="E:tempsample.py" /Headless=True /Splash=False /Welcome=False /ExitAfterScript=True

The arguments are: /RunScript - specify full path of script file /Headless - hide/show SCDM GUI /Splash - hide/show splash screen appearing while launching SCDM /Welcome - hide/show welcome screen /ExitAfterScript - specifies if SCDM application should exit when script is finished

[Aniket Chavan]

Good. Please post the link of the video as well so it will help others.

[prabhukumar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4XTgAuRMQ&feature=em-comments Please look at the video and the comments. 

[Tèche]

Hello Aniket, I'm looking for at least one small example of using SendCommand with python script to create a simple geometry, in my ANSYS Help (V18) I only found an example with Javascript.. nAnd this example doesn't work for me:nI don't see any ellipse created when I run this..nThen I create a cylinder and record a py script. Running a script in SpaceClaim is ok:nThen I want to do the same by launching a .wbjn file (using SendCommand), so I do this:nBut it doesn't work, it only create a surface, and no extrusion, because , I guess, it doesn't know what is Info1 and Face1.nnYes, there is a documentation and some video on Youtube, but it s not clear at all for me how I should proceed. nCan you gives me any help?nThank you in advancenTatianan

[Tèche]

Hello, don't consider my question, I think I found a solution. There are examples in Insert Snippet/ ExamplesnArrayn