Convenience function to read ANSYS files

[johannes-mueller]

In demos/import_mesh_ansys.ipynb we dedicate almost 20 lines of code to convert the ANSYS mesh data structure to a pyLife compliant mesh dataframe.

Maybe we should have some kind of convenience function for it.

[DKreuter]

Good idea, we are usingPyMAPDL Reader - Legacy Binary and Archive File Reader, actually. We should shift to the actual version of pymapdl, but we should double check, if we can read *rst files w/o Ansys license.

[MiguelDLM]

Is this possible? I'm exploring the data of the example provided (beam_3d.rst) to better understand the data structure I need to apply to my results in MSH format.

[DKreuter]

Yes it should, just try it out 😉

[MiguelDLM]

Oh it works! I didn't try because of the warning in the instructions (#%% Ansys (license is necessary))

Thanks!