slice plane when extracting results

First, great work with pyansys!

I have a code that, for a given section of my 3D model, I extract the maximum temperatures of that section, in my thermal transient analysis. Its like a slice tool.

NSEL,S,LOC,Z,0.045-TOL,0.045+TOL
    !===================
    *GET,num_nos,NODE,0,COUNT  
    *DIM,vet_nos,array,num_nos      
    *VGET,vet_nos,NODE,,NLIST       
    /POST26
    *CREATE,ansuitmp
    *CFOPEN,'my_file','txt',' ',APPEND
    *DO,ij,1,num_nos,1
        N=vet_nos(ij)         
        NSOL,2,N,TEMP     
        STORE
        *GET,XX,NODE,N,LOC,X
        *GET,YY,NODE,N,LOC,Y
        *GET,MAX_TEMP,vari,2,extrem,vmax  
        *VWRITE,XX,YY,MAX_TEMP,N,
        (2F12.8,2F10.2)
    *ENDDO
    *CFCLOS
    *END
    /INPUT,ansuitmp

Is it possible to retrieve the data in a similar way with pyansys? (don’t need to cfopen, just retrieve data from the loop at given section in NSEL)

Thanks!

[rodrigofarias-MECH]

Ran into an issue with this mesh type and I’ll have to update the latest release to read it in. Broke somewhere around pyansys==0.41.1, so prior to that it should work.

Otherwise, slicing works out of the box. I’ll write up an example and add it to the docs, but you should be able to work with it “as-is” in an older version:

import pyansys
rst = pyansys.read_result('ts_simu_termica.rth')
nnum, temp = rst.nodal_temperature(100)
single_slice = rst.grid.slice(normal=[0, 0, 1], origin=[0, 0, 0.01])
single_slice.plot()

Decided to add some animation to it as well. I’ll have that out in the next release:

Thank you so much my friend! This is exactly what I wanted. And the animation was perfect, really good.

I will continue to develop my models and give feedback on pyansys. If you need more sample files to post to pyansys documents, feel free to contact me.

[rodrigofarias-MECH]

I just edited the last line to single_slice.plot(scalars='temperature', show_edges=True)

Now it works 😃 !