set properties for a embeddedbeam via python ---not working

RE: set properties for a embeddedbeam via python ---not working

xiong qi — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:20:52 GMT

Hi, Matthew and Stefanos.Thank you for your quick response!

The project has been completed according to the method you gave.

Best wishes to you.

RE: set properties for a embeddedbeam via python ---not working

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:52:06 GMT

Dear Xiong,

We have made many improvements in our latest version regarding the properties exposed in GUI and what is needed in a Python script.

Since you are using an older version the solution is a bit more complex; Matthew is right. Practically you need to define more properties as we need them to internally compute the properties for the calculation.

So, for instance, try the following:

g_i.embeddedbeammat(
("MaterialName",'pile'),
("BeamType", 0),
("PredefinedBeamType", 1),
("Diameter", 1.2),
("Thickness", 0.15),
("E", 36.00E6),
("w", 24),
("Size", 1.2),
("A", 0.494800842940392),
("Iyy", 0.0695813685384928),
("Izz", 0.0695813685384928),
("I", 0.0695813685384928),
("Lspacing", 10.5),
("SkinResistance", 2),
("Tmax", 10000),
("Fmax",200)
)

Note that the figure these out is by creating the material manually and using the echo command to get all the listed properties.

RE: set properties for a embeddedbeam via python ---not working

Matthew Johnson — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:00:37 GMT

Hi xiong qi,

You need to pass more variables to the embeddedbeam material object. e.g. the area, Iyy, Izz, even though they are displayed to be blanked out and cannot be manually edited - you need some logic to do area & second mom. of a circle

RE: set properties for a embeddedbeam via python ---not working

xiong qi — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 07:23:56 GMT

PS: The version is Palxis 2D v20.04