Opening APDL

Opening APDL through workbench uses the shared license, so you can’t modify a mechanical session while using APDL. This script writes the input file and gives the commands to open the file in apdl.

apdldir = "C:\\scratch\\APDL\\"
executable = r'C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v240\ansys\bin\winx64\mapdl'

import datetime
import os

def get_analysis():
    return _get_analysis(ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.ActiveObjects[0])

def _get_analysis(obj):
    if obj.GetType() == Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.Analysis:
    return obj
    if hasattr(obj, "Parent"):
    return _get_analysis(obj.Parent)
    raise ValueError("no workingdir or parent for selecteditem")

now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d--%I-%M')
apdldir = apdldir+now
os.system("mkdir -p "+apdldir)

print(r"""
cd {}
"{}" -g -lch -p prepost ^
-dir "{}" ^
-j file -l en-us -d win32 -s noread -dis -mip INTELMPI -np 4
""".format(apdldir, executable, apdldir))

print("/INPUT, 'input', 'dat',")

analysis = get_analysis()
analysis.WriteInputFile(apdldir+"\\input.dat")