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user56574
user56574

Reputation: 9

How to deal with these unknown/weird variable types?

Abaqus FEM software, which uses Python, creates its own variable/list types, for example:

a = mdb.models['Model-1'].rootAssembly.instances['Instance-1'].faces
print a
type(a)

['Face object', 'Face object', 'Face object', ...]

type 'FaceArray'

print a[0]:
type(a[0])

({'featureName': 'Name-1', 'index': 6, 'instanceName': 'Name-1', 'isReferenceRep': False, 'pointOn': ((0.0, 0.733333, -0.133333),)})

type 'Face'

When I now initialize x=[] and add a 'Face object' with x.append(a[2]), it results in

[mdb.models['Model-1'].rootAssembly.instances['Instance-1'].faces[2]]

instead of

['Face object']

How can I create a new variable of the same format as a?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 368

Answers (1)

János Farkas
János Farkas

Reputation: 471

u have to create face array not simple array, then add into your face array Face objects

x = FaceArray()

Upvotes: 0

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