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Sep
Excel fit formulas
Reference for the equation coefficients on best fit lines.
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Sep
Read in keypoints from file
Reading a file into APDL and parsing to make keypoints is painful at best (IMHO). Writing this in something like ANSYS Tcl isn’t quite as bad.
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Sep
Using the ANSYS_MACROLIB
Being able to call the tcl scripts from the ANSYS command line is awesome but irritating to use the ~eui, command.
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Sep
Better vget
*vget is a handy way to get array values from nodes and elements but it can be clunky. This was just to make it simpler to get those values out of ANSYS and store them as a parameter or into a file.
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Sep
Read in data file with or without a dialog box
It’s helpful in ANSYS to read in data files and I can’t always remember what people name their files.
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May
mesh semi circle area (soccer ball mesh)
Some models that use area meshes on curved ends (like airfoils) are good candidates for soccer ball meshes. This was a simple method I needed to mesh them quickly
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Apr
Check ANSYS mesh for warning/error elements
Running meshes in batch usually need some way to check the mesh quality. Here’s one approach I took.
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Jun
flickr_sync
this was a project to sync my local images with my flickr library
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Jun
Protected: Getmyip
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Jun
Wordgame cheat
What good is a facebook game if you can’t cheat? For this to work you’ll need a file full of everyword 
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Jun
Protected: Geometry Fit
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Jun
Python Ansys Connect
Calling Ansys as part of bigger python program can come in pretty handy.
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Mar
Send mail with attachments
I’ve always wondered how to send an email w/ an attachment from the cli.
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Jan
WordPress FancyBox CallBack
So I needed a ‘Download’ Button on my wordpress photoblog, and I needed it to be conditional (e.g. I needed promo pictures to be downloadable). I also wanted it to be easy to trigger. The idea here, is to paste the above code into the Show Event Callback for the FancyBox plugin. This will replace the normal title on pictures with a link to the download script (php in this case). This only happens however, if the meta tag for downloading is set to true. This tag is set based on the category checkboxes when you make a wordpress post.
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Oct
Warning and Error popup msgs
These are handy when you just need a simple dialog box for errors or warnings from within your GUI.
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Oct
multiChoiceDialog example
One more wx dialog example
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Oct
ANSYS system commands
Not that this happens a lot but sometimes its nice to get the results of a dos command back into ANSYS. This one for example, returns the number of lines in a text file back to ANSYS as the variable asdf.
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Sep
Extract chart best fit equation
Sometimes you just really want to use that best fit line equation in the chart. But outside of copy and past and replace there’s not much you can do with it. Until now…
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Sep
simple mouseover/mouseout script
This is an awesome script by Jehiah Czebotar that allows you to bypass the onmouseover/onmouseout, preload stuff for images. Just add the ‘oversrc’ attribute and the script does the rest!
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Jun
Ansys From Python
Script to call Ansys from python
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Jun
Line Intersection
Quick line intersection method in Line class
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May
Python command line options
set up command line options easily.
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May
Sort photos into folders from EXIF data
Sorts photos into folders based on exif data. uses – destination/year/year_month_day format
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Apr
Progress Bar class
Nice little object that can be used anywhere. Just initialize it and then call it when you need it to update.
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Apr
Pylab multiplot
Simple multiplot example in pylab (condensed matplotlib).
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Mar
Execute command on files in folders
‘walks’ through the directories starting with the current working directory and performs a system command on each file (in this case convert flac to ogg)
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Dec
Make an array from C (cAnsMakeArray)
How to make an array with the ANSYS C API.
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Dec
Link rss location
Creates a link to the RSS of the webpage.
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Dec
Ode45 example
Example that uses ode45
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Dec
Print int as binary
This will take an integer and print out its binary string
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Dec
Import an NX part file
This imports an NX part file
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Dec
Get HyperMesh filename
When you simply need to know the hm filename and path…
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Dec
Get nodal coordinates
Uses Hypermesh built in panel for node selection and for each node returns the X/Y/Z values
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Dec
Get object tag type
Shows the type of a certain object. This is useful when you’re getting errors because of the type of tag you’re passing.
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Dec
Get work tag or open new
Give this function a tag address and it will return the work part tag or open a new part and return that tag.
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Dec
Open file dialog and display value
This can be used in a UIStyler dialog button callback in order to open any type of file and display the file path in a text field. This is common in dialogs where various input files are needed. Often the button is shown only with “…” as the text.
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Dec
Yes or no dialog box
Get a simple yes/no or yes to all from the user. (returns 0 for no, 1 for yes). Just keep calling this same function and it will remember if they clicked “Yes to All”.
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Dec
Get styler item value
this code can be used to get the value of a dialog item. The correct item value should be queried. This is something you should know from creating the dialog in the UIStyler.
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Dec
Writing values to file
This is a simple example on how to write to a file (myTextFileName.txt) scalar values (myValue), and full arrays (myArray). The formatting is similar to printf’s in C, number of figures, number after the decimal (i.e. f10.5 -> 12345.67890)
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Dec
Do loop for nodal principle stress
This creates a 2D array (myArray) and stores the nodal principle stresses in columns based on load steps (i.e. if you only have one load step, you get a single column of nodal stresses).
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