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Mechanical scripting interface

UnitsHelper

Last update: 14.01.2025

class Ansys.ACT.Mechanical.UnitsHelper

Bases: object

Defines set of methods that can be used to find mechanical unit information

Overview

Constructors

Name Description
ConvertMechanicalUnitToCoreUnit Takes input mechanical unit string and category string
GetValidQuantityNamesAndUnits Retrieve a dictionary of quantity names to unit strings.

Method detail

classmethod UnitsHelper.ConvertMechanicalUnitToCoreUnit(mechanicalUnit: str, unitCategory: str)

Takes input mechanical unit string and category string
And returns framework unit string which can be used for conversion

classmethod UnitsHelper.GetValidQuantityNamesAndUnits()

Retrieve a dictionary of quantity names to unit strings.
These quantity names represent valid quantity names that can be used when defining quantities in
Mechanical ACT extensions.