sectinqr

Mapdl.sectinqr(nsect, key, pname='__tmpvar__', **kwargs)

Get information about a section id set.

Warning

DISCLAIMER: This function is un-documented in the official ANSYS Command Reference Guide. Hence its support is limited and it use is not encouraged. Please use it with caution.

Parameters:

nsectint

Section id table number should be 0 for key=11, DB_NUMDEFINED, DB_NUMSELECTED, DB_MAXDEFINED, and DB_MAXRECLENG.

keyint

Information flag.

• DB_SELECTED - return select status

  • 0 - ection id table is undefined.

  • -1 - section id table is unselected.

  • 1 - section id table is selected

• DB_NUMDEFINED - return number of defined section id tables

• DB_NUMSELECTED - return number of selected section id tables

• DB_MAXDEFINED - return highest section id table defined

• DB_MAXRECLENG - return maximum record length (dp words)

• 2 - return length (dp words)

• 3 - return layer number (for cross reference files return number of entities)

• 4 - return address of first data word

• 5 - return length (in record type units)

• 6 - return compressed record number.

• 11 - return void percent (integer)

• 16 - return location of next record (this increments the next record count)

• 18 - return type of file.

  • 0 - integer

  • 1 - double precision

  • 2 - real

  • 3 - complex

  • 4 - character*8

  • 7 - index

• 19 - return virtual type of file.

  • 0 - fixed length (4.4 form)

  • 1 - indexed variable length (layer data)

  • 2 - xref data tables

  • 3 - bitmap data (for 32 data item packed records)

  • 4 - data tables (three dimensional arrays)

pnamestr

Name of the variable where the queried value is stored.

**kwargs

Extra arguments to be passed to Mapdl.run.

Returns:

int or str

The returned value of sectinqr is based on setting of key.