Ansys ACT Mechanical - running .py file

[L_K]

How to run a python script file in ACT console?

 

[Erik Panos Kostson]

This link is very good and shows all the step from creating to running a script

http://www.padtinc.com/blog/the-focus/ansys-act-console-snippets

 

[L_K]

Thanks. Do you know how to run an external py file from console. For example I have file "test.py" in the working folder which I would want to run?

The reason is that I would like to use for example notepad++ to develop a snippet (usually requires lots of testing and mistakes) and avoid copy pasting to console all the time.

 

[Erik Panos Kostson]

See what you mean, not sure actually - perhaps someone else will now for sure

This might help where the script runs directly and not by copy paste into the Act console

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCsvagzvAv4

 

[L_K]

Solution is the following:

exec(script), where script is a string of the contents of the file.