MaterialManager

class ansys.materials.manager.material_manager.MaterialManager(pyansys_client: Any)

Manage material creation, assignment, and other management tasks.

This class is the main entry point for the Pythonic material management interface.

Overview

Methods

write_material	Write a material to the solver.
read_materials_from_session	Given a PyAnsys session, return the materials present.

Attributes

model_type_map

Import detail

from ansys.materials.manager.material_manager import MaterialManager

Attribute detail

MaterialManager.model_type_map: Dict[str, ansys.materials.manager._models._BaseModel]

Method detail

MaterialManager.write_material(material: ansys.materials.manager.material.Material) → None

Write a material to the solver.

Parameters:

materialMaterial

Material object to write to solver.

MaterialManager.read_materials_from_session() → Dict[str, ansys.materials.manager.material.Material]

Given a PyAnsys session, return the materials present.

This method only supports PyMAPDL currently.

Returns:

Dict[str, Material]

Materials in the current session, indexed by an ID. For MAPDL, this is the material ID. For Fluent, this is the material name.