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Robot Structural Analysis

Analyzing an Autodesk Robot model in VIKTOR can be done using the RobotAnalysis class (worker required).

Add integration to app config​

To make the worker integration available through the interface, add the following to your viktor.config.toml:

worker_integrations = [
    "robot", 
]

Instructions on how to manually install the worker can be found here.

App code​

No binding is provided by VIKTOR for this module, which means that the input file has to be generated manually:

import viktor as vkt

# Generate the input STR file.
input_file = ...

# Run the analysis and obtain the results.
analysis = vkt.robot.RobotAnalysis(input_file)
analysis.execute(timeout=10)
results = analysis.get_results()  # obtain the results in a dict
model_file = analysis.get_model_file()  # obtain the model file (.rtd)

If return_results is set to True, a result dictionary can be retrieved:

If return_model=True, the model file will also become available:

Testing​

New in v13.5.0

mock_RobotAnalysis decorator for easier testing of RobotAnalysis

RobotAnalysis.execute needs to be mocked within the context of (automated) testing.

The viktor.testing module provides the mock_RobotAnalysis decorator that facilitate mocking of workers:

import unittest

from viktor import File
from viktor.testing import mock_RobotAnalysis

from app.my_entity_type.controller import MyEntityTypeController

class TestMyEntityTypeController(unittest.TestCase):

    @mock_RobotAnalysis(
        get_model_file=File.from_path('test_file.rtd'),
        get_results={'bar_forces': {...}, ...},
    )
    def test_robot_analysis(self):
        MyEntityTypeController().robot_analysis()

For the decorator's input parameters the following holds:

  • If a Sequence type is provided, the next entry is returned for each corresponding method call. When a call is performed on a depleted iterable, an Exception is raised.
  • If a single object is provided, the object is returned each time the corresponding method is called (endlessly).
  • If None is provided (default), a default File/dict object (with empty content) is returned each time the corresponding method is called (endlessly).