[mnasoft]

Good day, colleagues.


Is it possible to launch ICEM interactivly using bat-file on Windows wich loading a tcl-script, in order to after the script is finished running, the procedures defined in this script are available in ICEM?

To launch ICEM CFD 14.5 I use a bat-file that looks like this:

path_to_icem/icemcfd.bat -script path_to_user_folder/script.tcl

The file script.tcl looks like this:

proc ch_vis {} {
    set surfaces [ic_geo_list_visible_objects surface]
    foreach surface $surfaces {
        set part [ic_geo_get_family surface $surface]
        foreach curve [ic_geo_boundary surface $surface 0 0 1] {
            ic_geo_set_part curve $curve $part 0
            foreach point [ic_geo_boundary curve $curve 0 0 1] {
                ic_geo_set_part point $point $part 0 } } } }
mess "script.tcl loaded \n"

it define procedure ch_vis and after that print message (which I can see).


Then I open apropriate project and trying to invoke ch_vis in console area.
But interpreter say that ch_vis command not defined.


Then if I invoke in console area command like this:

source path_to_user_folder/script.tcl

After that invokation of ch_vis becomes possible.


This behavior is a feature or a bug? Is it possible to change it somehow?

[tyrex]

A similar question was resolved here:


https://forum.ansys.com/forums/topic...-startup-icem/


ICEM CFD has a scripting interpreter, GUI interpreter, and batch interpreter. A Tcl interpreter is an isolated code space that can have certain protections set. Sometimes interpreters can communicate with each other depending on the protections set. When you launch ICEM CFD by command line with the -script argument, it runs this script in the script interpreter. When you run script inside the ICEM CFD message window, by typing individual commands or with the "source" command it is run in the gui interpreter. It is not easy to call functions and variables from the gui interp that are defined in the script interp.
ic_gui_set allows gui_interp access from the script_interp that is used with "icemcfd -script" startup.
one argument retrieves variable value.
two arguments sets a variable value.
Three or more arguments executes a function. Include a blank 3rd argument to make 3 if only sending 1 argument to function.
Only works, though, for procedures that take in 2 arguments or more.
If 3rd arg is blank, such as {}, then it will not return the value of the function. ic_gui_set needs 3 or more non-blank args to return a function value.


For loading script in GUI interpreter from sripting interpreter try:
ic_gui_set eval source script.tcl