solution.get_TabularData() causes an error

[anthony-walker]

Calling solution.get_TabularData() in the context of App.Model.Analyses[0].Solution causes the following error on Windows. Has anyone encountered this and a way to fix it?

 System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException:  (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
   at Ansys.Common.Interop.DSGfx._DSCompositeDataProviderClass.get_Table(UInt32 uId)
   at Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.Solution.get_TabularData()

[koubaa]

@anthony-walker This is related to Mechanical Scripting, which is documented here. The API reference can be reached from the ACT API reference guide, linked there under "Additional Resources"[1]. There, it can be seen that the TabularData[2] property is not mentioned as an API of the Solution object. In our terminology, this means that it is not Published.

The bottomline is that just because something is reachable with Python it doesn't mean that it is Published. When doing python scripting inside of the Mechnical user interface, only the Published APIs will appear when using autocomplete. I have to admit that this isn't ideal for the PyMechanical user, since there's no easy way for PyMechanical to tell whether a given property or method is Published.

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1. In the future, we plan to directly host the Mechanical API reference somewhere more convenient to access.
2. get_TabularData() appears to be an alias of the TabularData property. This looks like an implementation detail of how python<->C# interop works for properties. For properties, using the direct accessor is preferred (and indeed only the direct accessor is documented in our API reference guide). i.e. App.Model.Name is preferred over App.Model.get_Name()