{"id":364259,"date":"2024-04-25T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-maxwell-mesh-element-access\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:17:11","slug":"ansys-maxwell-mesh-element-access","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-maxwell-mesh-element-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Maxwell Mesh Element Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within an Ansys Maxwell python macro, I want to identify the Electric Field strength of a named object (be it a surface or volume object) on a per-element basis. Specifically, for a given named object, I want to obtain a list of each mesh element, in which I have the average E-field for that element and the area\/volume of that element.<\/p>\n

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I have determined how to decode an aedtplt file to achieve this goal, but this requires manually aggregating individual nodes to create a shape, then calculating the area\/volume of that shape. Given the wide variety of shapes that the meshes can take (and the esoteric way they are defined) I would much rather just use an API call to directly obtain the area of the mesh element. I’m sure one must exist, but I have been unable to find documentation for this is the Ansys scripting guide.<\/p>\n

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To reiterate, the python script API functions I need are:<\/p>\n

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  1. A way to select a named object and retrieve a list of mesh elements from that object (be it a volume or surface object)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. For each element, a function to retrieve the electric field strength of the element<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. And also for each element, a function to retrieve the area\/volume of the element<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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