The ActuatorSensor object defines a single point actuator where the actuation is determined by a user subroutine (UEL). The subroutine senses the data at the same point as the actuator.
The ActuatorSensor object is derived from the Interaction object.
import interaction mdb.models[name].interactions[name]
This method creates an ActuatorSensor object.
mdb.models[name].ActuatorSensor
Required arguments
A String specifying the repository key.
A String specifying the name of the step in which the actuator/sensor interaction is created. createStepName must be set to 'Initial'.
A Region object specifying the point at which the constraint is applied.
A String specifying the ActuatorSensorProp object associated with this interaction.
An Int specifying the number of coordinate components supplied to the user subroutine (UEL).
A Boolean specifying whether the element matrices are symmetric (ON) or unsymmetric (OFF). The default value is OFF.
An Int specifying the number of solution-dependent variables. The default value is 0.
A String specifying the name of the user subroutine (UEL) that defines the user element.
A String specifying the degrees of freedom, separated by commas.
A sequence of Floats specifying the initial values of the solution-dependent variables.
Optional arguments
Return value
An ActuatorSensor object.
Exceptions
This method modifies the ActuatorSensor object.
Required arguments
Optional arguments
The optional arguments to setValues are the same as the arguments to the ActuatorSensor method, except for the name and createStepName arguments.
Return value
Exceptions
The ActuatorSensor object has members with the same names and descriptions as the arguments to the ActuatorSensor method.