How can I change the background color of an animation file through Pymechanical scripting?

[B-Naveen-Kumar]

Hi Team,

I believe there’s a need to add a new feature for animation background settings via pymechanical scripting.

If this feature already exists, could you please share your inputs here?

[dipinknair]

Thanks for opening the discussion. Please redirect your question to Ansys Developer Forum for Mechanical. There are many posts there that would help you since this is related to Mechanical scripting rather than PyMechanical.

[B-Naveen-Kumar]

@dipinknair , please take a look as I made some edits

[dipinknair]

@B-Naveen-Kumar the image export is done with Mechanical so you cannot change background setting with pymechanical. You can do with Mechanical API. There are two settings to change background of image when I looked into the published APIs with Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.GraphicsImageExportSettings()

Full code can be found here https://embedding.examples.mechanical.docs.pyansys.com/examples/00_tips/tips_02.html#configure-graphics-for-image-export

GraphicsBackgroundType.GraphicsAppearanceSetting  #exports image with blue and white 

GraphicsBackgroundType.white  #exports image with white background

Is this what you are looking ?

[B-Naveen-Kumar]

Im looking into animations (.mp4, avi, wmv.....) files

[dipinknair]

@B-Naveen-Kumar, As I mentioned before, with PyMechanical there is no flexibility to change animation or image background. Please check Ansys Developer Forum for Mechanical for your question.

[B-Naveen-Kumar]

Sure dipin..!!