Topology optimization available? #2018
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Is topology optimization functionality available in pymapdl? |
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Hi @pkrull-ansys No, optimization and topological optimization was undocumented in MAPDL at version 14. The functionality accessed via Workbench Mechanical replaced it; and it is a separate executable. So 'behind the scenes' mapdl and topological optimization work together to solve the model, but they are separate exe's. Can you describe what you want to do and whether or not PyMechanical or PyoptiSlang can, or cannot, be used? The TO program is meant to be launched by Mechanical but a while back I did look into whether I could manually launch a TO job on a cluster. Can maybe, and let me emphasize maybe!, take some of those lessons and implement something in PyMAPDL. Mike |
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@mikerife Many thanks! In the end, I want to create a python script for a workflow that includes geometry creation (pygeometry), topology optimization (py???), and additive manufacturing simulation (pyadditive, pymapdl). I'd like to automate the workflow so that multiple permutations could be run simultaneously. At this point, I don't have any restrictions on which pyansys libraries can and cannot be used. My main questions are
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Hi @pkrull-ansys No, optimization and topological optimization was undocumented in MAPDL at version 14. The functionality accessed via Workbench Mechanical replaced it; and it is a separate executable. So 'behind the scenes' mapdl and topological optimization work together to solve the model, but they are separate exe's.
Can you describe what you want to do and whether or not PyMechanical or PyoptiSlang can, or cannot, be used? The TO program is meant to be launched by Mechanical but a while back I did look into whether I could manually launch a TO job on a cluster. Can maybe, and let me emphasize maybe!, take some of those lessons and implement something in PyMAPDL.
Mike