A huge part of any Python developer's arsenal is the ability to link your Python program with "other stuff".

For this week's Script Tip Friday, Fabio Pavia, discusses how you can design for an optimal mould shape in 3 steps using partner tools for composites connected to Ansys Mechanical.

Python Code objects in Ansys 2022R2 allow the user to change the engine to Cypthon. This opens the door to using more modern python libraries and modules.

We cover the steps to find the time-varying center of gravity location of a deforming model using DPF in mechanical.

Using the scoping.on_mesh_property operator to extract the COMBIN14 (spring element) mesh, users can extract the MAPDL smisc results for spring forces with the mapdl.smisc operator.

SDSG is an element quantity that is the maximum difference between the nodal average value and the elemental nodal value for all nodes of the element (for all components of stress). Here we look at the ability to display SDSG results in Mechanical.

To check all available methods and properties of an object we often use the dir() command. Sometimes it is useful to filter it by keywords, and for this the filter() method can be used.

When you think of commercial engineering simulation software, you usually think of the software you are familiar with and all the workflows supported within it.

This week’s script tip comes from our very own Pernelle Marone-Hitz, Lead Application Engineer at Ansys.