Can not import geometry remotely.

[narnia-ai-mason]

Hi, I'm working on accessing Mechanical remotely.
I have two machines:

• ansys_host: Remote machine that Ansys has been installed.
• client: Local machine that I'm working on with Python and ansys-mechanical-core .

Case I (directly executing ansys-mechanical)

First, I have run ansys-mechanical --port <port> directly on ansys_host.
Then mech = launch_mechanical(ip=ansys_host, port=port) works.
I have a IronPython script for importing geometry as follows:

GEO_IMPORT_SCRIPT = """
geo_import_format = Ansys.Mechanical.DataModel.Enums.GeometryImportPreference.Format.Automatic
geo_import_preferences = Ansys.ACT.Mechanical.Utilities.GeometryImportPreferences()
geo_import_preferences.ProcessSurfaces = False
geo_import_preferences.ProcessNamedSelections = True
geo_import_preferences.NamedSelectionKey = "" 
geo_import = Model.GeometryImportGroup.AddGeometryImport()
geo_import.Import(r"{cad_path:s}", geo_import_format, geo_import_preferences)
"""

So I can import a geometry by:

cad_path = "C:\\Users\\user\\workspace\\bracket0.scdoc"
mech.run_python_script(
    GEO_IMPORT_SCRIPT.format(cad_path=cad_path)
)

I've checked if the geometry was imported.

num_children = int(mech.run_python_script(
    'len(DataModel.Project.Model.Children)'
))
print('Model')
for i in range(num_children):
    name = mech.run_python_script(
        f'DataModel.Project.Model.Children[{i:d}].Name'
    )
    print(f'|- {name}')
    num_subchildren = int(mech.run_python_script(
        f'len(DataModel.Project.Model.Children[{i:d}].Children)'
    ))
    for j in range(num_subchildren):
        child_name = mech.run_python_script(
            f'DataModel.Project.Model.Children[{i:d}].Children[{j:d}].Name'
        )
        print(f'|  |- {child_name}')

It gave me

Model
|- Geometry Imports
|  |- Geometry Import
|- Geometry
|  |- component
|- Materials
|  |- Structural Steel
|- Coordinate Systems
|  |- Global Coordinate System
|- Remote Points
|- Mesh
|- Named Selections
|  |- Remained
|  |- Fixed
|  |- LoadedL
|  |- LoadedR
|  |- Loaded

It means the geometry has been successfully imported!

Case II (remotely executing ansys-mechanical using SSH)

Secend, I have run ansys-mechanical --port <port> remotely on ansys_host using SSH, and did the same thing.
But I got

Model
|- Geometry Imports
|  |- Geometry Import
|- Geometry
|- Materials
|- Coordinate Systems
|  |- Global Coordinate System
|- Remote Points
|- Mesh

It means, the Geometry Import has been added (geo_import = Model.GeometryImportGroup.AddGeometryImport()),
but the importing itself has failed (geo_import.Import(r"{cad_path:s}", geo_import_format, geo_import_preferences)).

Why this happen and how can I resolve this problem?

[dipinknair]

@narnia-mason Hi, What Operating Systems are you using for ansys_host and client?
can you provide any logs?

[narnia-ai-mason]

Hi! ansys_host is Windows machine and I tested on Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu for the client.

[dipinknair]

@narnia-mason can you please send an email to pyansys.core@ansys.com so that we can communicate over email directly. I have connected to Linux machine host through ssh and tried your code, imported a different geometry and did not see any issue.

[RobPasMue]

Hi @narnia-mason - just guessing here, but is the cad_path file present in your remote machine as well, with the same path? If the file does not exist on the remote machine, I don't think the remote execution mechanism for ansys-mechanical-core would also figure out that it needs to send the CAD file to the remote machine.