Given a ply, what's the most efficient way of calculating its area using the Python API?

Deleus

To tackle the above problem I'm doing:

import hm

import hm.entities as ent

model = hm.Model()

collection = hm.Collection(model, ent.Element, hm.Collection(model, ent.Set, f"Name={ply.name}"))

area = model.hm_getmass(collection)

This seems to work just fine but starts to run a lot slower when dealing with hundreds of plies for larger models.

Is this the most efficient way of doing it? Is there a faster way?

Thanks as usual, Daniele

Michal Stefuca

Hi @Deleus

For large models, the performance hit might be coming from creating the Set collection based on the name. This uses the FilterByAttribute which becomes slower the bigger the model gets. We are planning to improve this in the future releases.

Can you please try creating the set collection by directly querying the list of Set entities from the ply and passing the output to the Collection constructor?

Thanks,
Michal Stefuca

Automation & Customization