pretab

Mapdl.pretab(lab1='', lab2='', lab3='', lab4='', lab5='', lab6='', lab7='', lab8='', lab9='', **kwargs)

Print the element table items.

APDL Command: PRETAB

Parameters:

lab1, lab2, lab3, … , lab9

Print selected items. Valid labels are "" or any label as specified with the ETABLE command. Convenience labels may be used for Lab1 to select groups of labels (10 labels maximum): GRP1 for first 10 stored items; GRP2 for items 11 to 20; GRP3 for items 21 to 30; GRP4 for items 31 to 40; GRP5 for items 41 to 50. Run etable("stat") command to list stored item order. If all labels are blank, print first 10 stored items (GRP1).

Returns:

str

Str object with the command console output. This object also has the extra methods: to_list(), to_array() (only on listing commands) and to_dataframe() (only if Pandas is installed).
NOTE: If you use these methods, you might obtain a lower precision than using Mesh methods.
For more information visit Postprocessing.

Notes

Prints the items stored in the table defined with the etable() command. Item values will be listed for the selected elements in the sorted sequence [ESORT]. force() can be used to define which component of the nodal load is to be used (static, damping, inertia, or total).

Examples

Print out element displacement results.

>>> mapdl.etable("values", "U", "X")
STORE VALUES   FROM ITEM=U    COMP=X     FOR ALL SELECTED ELEMENTS

Now print out the table.

>>> mapdl.pretab().splitlines()[:4]
['PRINT ELEMENT TABLE ITEMS PER ELEMENT',
 '       1   0.1073961540E-005  0.1073961540E-005',
 '       2   0.3156317304E-005  0.3156317304E-005',
 '       3   0.5125435148E-005  0.5125435148E-005']

Note that can access the array directly from APDL:

>>> mapdl.get_array("elem", 1, "ETAB", "values")
array([1.07396154e-06, 3.15631730e-06, 5.12543515e-06, ...,
       5.41204700e-06, 3.33649806e-06, 1.13836132e-06])