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[mscal]

Essentially, I am trying to automate the creation and definition of a Cut Boundary Constraint for a submodel.  This is using the ironPython in the console embedded in Mechanical.  With the Macro Recorder I have figured most of it out.  However, I cannot figure out how to access this worksheet that comes for specifying the "Source TIme" property.   Neither the Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.ImportedLoads.ImportedLoadGroup object, or Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.ImportedLoads.ImportedDisplacement object, have an input/output property that I am used to filling our tabular loads.  

Can anyone assist?  Here is what I have so far:

analysis = Model.Analyses[0]

analysis.AnalysisSettings.NumberOfSteps = 2
analysis.AnalysisSettings.LargeDeflection = False

iload = analysis.AddImportedLoadResultFile()
iload.ResultFile = r'path\to\source\file.rst'
icut = iload.AddImportedCutBoundaryConstraint()
# Set scoping method to Named Selection
icut.PropertyByName('GeometryDefineBy').InternalValue = 1  
# Set to BC faces
icut.PropertyByName('ComponentSelection').InternalValue = NamedSelection.ObjectID # Assume I have defined a Named Selection

 

[Matthew Middleton]

table = icut.GetTableByName("Data View")
#table.Columns    # lists column header names, which are row dictionary keys
row1 = table.Item[0]
#row1.Item is dictionary with keys as shown from table.Columns
# table changes will not be seen in the table unless click away and on imported load again, or use ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.Refresh()
row1.Item['Source Time'] = 1    Setting to zero will set to 'End Time' when using internal transferred loads (Not External Data system)
row1.Item['Analysis Time'] = 1.2
# Can also access with two indices: table[row][column]
# to add a row:
#row2 = Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.WorksheetRow()
# set dictionary entries like row1 above
#table.Add(row2)
# table.Add(None)   # If you want to fill in the columns afterward
ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.Refresh()
iload.ImportLoad() 

[mscal]

It works, thank you.  Is this method/property GetTableByName, and the resulting interface to the table, documented anywhere?

[Matthew Middleton]

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