How to export data from .rst file other readable format such as .csv or txt so it can be used in another tools for processing ?

[aakash17c]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if I can use pyansys commands to export data from ansys mechanical solver data such as .rst format to another format so it can be used in another tools for processing, if anyone have ides about code help me.

[pmaroneh]

Hi @aakash17c , PyDPF allows this. It also enables to manipulate the data extracted from the .rst file, so you would probably don't even need any other postprocessing tool.

[aakash17c]

I did try to find the relavent options to extract data, do you mind if you can share me which module I can use ?

[mikerife]

https://dpf.docs.pyansys.com/version/stable/examples/index.html
https://dpf.docs.pyansys.com/version/0.10/api/ansys.dpf.core.operators.serialization.field_to_csv.html

Or

https://post.docs.pyansys.com/version/stable/examples/index.html

[mikerife]

Hi @aakash17c In addition to what @pmaroneh said PyMAPDL has some additional methods to retrieve results for example to a Pandas dataframe. See here in the documentation. If you need just a few types of results then perhaps this can be done then native Python used to write out the data in a format of your choice.

Mike