Unfortunately it has to be very complex currently because of the lack of ability to inspect the component and material names... looking forward to that version 14.
The API is still limited to the types of operations listed in the manual but getting component names from element numbers and vice versa will be in the next version (14).
Victor is there any way you can modify the python 2 install in a future version of Mecway so it creates a ipy.exe file inside the Mecway program folder, in addition to the DLL file? So that the Mecway
I finally found the latest version of the solver being discussed (3rav) and tried it on the benchmark bolt assy on two different machines with the following results:
There are samples, verification cases and tutorials which all fit within 1000 nodes. These are described in Help->Manual and Help->Tutorials. You could generate bigger models by refining
I will add to what Sergio said - if you do not have standard samples, use some version of the actual part (if available) and load in a similar fashion to the actual application.
lol at sergio and JohnM. same thing with me as well wrt Spooles. yes, i'm curious about PaStix as well too. i hope it will become easier to have a windows version of it. right now it looks to be a bit