Basic Scripting ANSYS MAXWELL

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BasicExercises –  BasicExercises  – Scripting Scripting ScriptingtheCreatio Scripting theCreationofaMode nofaModelObject lObject Thisexercisewilldiscuss Thisexercisewilldiscusshowtorecord, howtorecord,modifyandrun modifyandrunascriptforautomating ascriptforautomating generationofacircle.Thef generationofacircle.Thefollowingtasks ollowingtaskswillbeperformed: willbeperformed: Recordascriptinwhich Recordascriptinwhichacircleisc acircleiscreated. reated. Modifythescripttochange Modifythescripttochangethecircle’sr thecircle’sradiusandhei adiusandheight. ght. Runthemodifiedscript.

CreateDesign Selectthemenuitem icon

orclickonthe

SaveProject Selectthemenuitem Savethefilewiththename

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BasicExercises – Scripting RecordScript Selectthemenuitem Savethescriptfilewiththename

DrawCircle Selectthemenuitem 1.

Usingthecoordinateentryfields,enterthecenterofcircle X: ,Y: ,Z: ,Pressthe

2.

key

Usingthecoordinateentryfields,entertheradius dX: ,dY: ,dZ: ,Pressthe

key

StopScriptRecording Selectthemenuitem

DeleteCircle Selectthesheet

fromhistorytree

Selectthemenuitem

RuntheScript Selectthemenuitem Browsetothelocationofthescriptfileand Ifsuccessful,theoriginalcircle,

,shouldbeback.

Wecannowexplorethecontentsofthescriptfile.

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LocatethefileontheHardDiskandopenitwithTextEditor(sayTextpad) '---------------------------------------------- 'ScriptRecordedbyAnsoftMaxwellVersion15.0.0 '10:23:17PMDec18,2011 '---------------------------------------------- DimoAnsoftApp DimoDesktop DimoProject DimoDesign DimoEditor DimoModule SetoAnsoftApp=CreateObject("AnsoftMaxwell.MaxwellScriptInterface") SetoDesktop=oAnsoftApp.GetAppDesktop() oDesktop.RestoreWindow SetoProject=oDesktop.SetActiveProject("Ex_9_10_BasicScripting2D") SetoDesign=oProject.SetActiveDesign("Maxwell2DDesign1") SetoEditor=oDesign.SetActiveEditor("3DModeler") oEditor.CreateCircle Array("NAME:CircleParameters", "IsCovered:=", true, "XCenter:=", _ "0mm", "YCenter:=", "0mm", "ZCenter:=", "0mm", "Radius:=", "1mm","WhichAxis:=",_"Z","NumSegments:=","0"),Array("NAME:Attributes", "Name:=", "Circle1", "Flags:=", _ "", "Color:=", "(132 132 193)", "Transparency:=", 0.25, "PartCoordinateSystem:=", _ "Global", "UDMId:=", "", "MaterialValue:=", "" & Chr(34) & "vacuum" & Chr(34) & "", "SolveInside:=", _ true)

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isthegenericvisualbasicvariabletype. '---------------------------------------------- 'ScriptRecordedbyAnsoftMaxwellVersion15.0.0 '10:23:17PMDec18,2011 '---------------------------------------------- DimoAnsoftApp DimoDesktop DimoProject DimoDesign DimoEditor DimoModule  Definedusing

.

SetoAnsoftApp=CreateObject("AnsoftMaxwell.MaxwellScriptInterface") SetoDesktop=oAnsoftApp.GetAppDesktop() oDesktop.RestoreWindow SetoProject=oDesktop.SetActiveProject("Ex_9_10_BasicScripting2D") SetoDesign=oProject.SetActiveDesign("Maxwell2DDesign1") SetoEditor=oDesign.SetActiveEditor("3DModeler")

TheoAnsoftAppobjectprovidesahandleforVBScripttoaccessMaxwell TheoDesktopobjectisusedtoperformdesktop-leveloperations,includingproject management. TheoProjectobjectcorrespondstooneprojectopenintheproduct.Itisusedto manipulatetheprojectanditsdata. TheoDesignobjectcorrespondstoaninstanceofadesignintheproject. TheoEditorobjectcorrespondstoaneditor,suchasthe3DModeler.Thisobjectis usedtoaddandmodifydataintheeditor.

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 Alloftheparametersneededtocreatethecirclearedefinedinthislineof code.Herewewillmodifythe ofthecirclebychangingthe appropriatetext. oEditor.CreateCircleArray("NAME:CircleParameters","IsCovered:=",true, "XCenter:=",_"0mm","YCenter:=","0mm","ZCenter:=","0mm", "WhichAxis:=",_"Z","NumSegments:=","0"),  Array("NAME:Attributes","Name:=","Circle1","Flags:=",_"","Color:=", "(132132193)","Transparency:=",0.800000011920929, "PartCoordinateSystem:=",_"Global","UDMId:=","","MaterialValue:=","" &Chr(34)&"vacuum"&Chr(34)&"","SolveInside:=",_true)

Locatethelinecontainingthe :

andchangethenumericalvaluesto

"WhichAxis:=",_"Z", "WhichAxis:=",_"Z", SavethefileandreturntoMaxwell.

DeleteCircle Selectthesheet

fromhistorytree

Selectthemenuitem

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BasicExercises – Scripting RuntheScript Selectthemenuitem Browsetothelocationofthescriptfileand Ifsuccessful,theoriginalcircle,

,shouldbeback.

GeneralizethescripttoruninanyProjectandDesign Torunthescriptinordertocreateyourcircleinadifferentproject.Changethe followinglinesinthescript. Set oProject = oDesktop. Set oDesign = oProject. Set oProject = oDesktop. Set oDesign = oProject.

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