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[Koen Franse]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a macro that is normally used in Ansys Mechan

ical, working in PyAnsys scripting. Normally, the macro is called in a 'Commands (APDL)' section under the Solution tree of my Modal analysis:

Containing the following lines:

    finish
    /psearch, C:
    moma

in which moma.mac is the macro. Now I want to be able to run the macro seperately, after the Modal analysis has finished, in PyAnsys scripting. Therefore I set 'Save MPADL db' to Yes in Mechanical.

In PyAnsys, I set the path to the simulation folder containing the .db file:

    mapdl=launch_mapdl(run_location=path)

And read the .db file:

    mapdl.run("cdread,db,file.db")

I run the psearch command and execute the macro in the same way as in Workbench:

    mapdl.run("/psearch,C:")
    mapdl.run("moma")

This gives me the output "USE COMMAND MACRO moma", but I'm not sure if the macro is actually ran, since the output file I expect is not created in the folder as it is when I run the macro in Mechanical. Is there something I am still doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

Hi

I would suggest to post this in the pyAnsys/pyMAPDL forum – also is your macro post processing results, then we need to read in the rst file.

See: FILE (ansys.com)

All the best

Erik

 

 

[Koen Franse]

Hey Erik,

Thanks, I'll post it in the pyMAPDL forum on git!

[Erik Kostson]

 

Hi

So if you are post processing which I think you are, then:

Issue file so (if you are in the same directory as the file.rst results, otherwise give the file path - see file command in help manual for more info):

mapdl.run(“file,,rst”)

All the best

Erik