{"id":166495,"date":"2022-02-17T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/getting-type-string-data-from-mechanical-script-to-apdl-command-snippets-via-args-or-otherwise\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:59:26","slug":"getting-type-string-data-from-mechanical-script-to-apdl-command-snippets-via-args-or-otherwise","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/getting-type-string-data-from-mechanical-script-to-apdl-command-snippets-via-args-or-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting type string data from Mechanical script to APDL Command Snippets (via ARGs or otherwise)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi,<\/p>\n

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I want APDL to read my Named Selection… well, "names" created in Mechanical, and I have been unable to find a way to do it natively. I have been able to do it via Mechanical script (as follows, for those interested):<\/p>\n

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named_selection_all=DataModel.GetObjectsByType(Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.NamedSelection)<\/p>\n

for ns in named_selection_all:<\/p>\n

  print(ns.Name)<\/p>\n

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I have been able even to access the ARGS from the script with this kind of command:<\/p>\n

command_snippet_1.InputArgument1 = r'35'<\/p>\n

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However, it seems it is not possible to get it to accept a string. Or at least I have not been successful. The reason I want my APDL script to read those string is because I want it to export a series of results for each named selection with the filename being the name of said named selection. <\/p>\n

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Any ideas? Thank you in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-166495","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-mechanical","topic-tag-apdl","topic-tag-named-selections","topic-tag-scripting-journaling-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t