MaxwellCircuitComponents: create_component

[rickygill00]

Hello, I can't seem to name a winding component using create_component(). For example:

myWinding = MaxwellCircuitComponent.create_component(name="myWinding", component_library="", component_name="Winding")

This creates the winding but does not set the name to "myWinding". Using myWinding.set_property(name="Name", value="myWinding") changes the name.

Am I doing something wrong with create_component()?

[gmalinve]

Hi @rickygill00,

To create a winding you simply need this method: create_winding().
A usage example could be:
my_wdg = my_aedtapp.modeler.schematic.create_winding(name="wdg_name", location, angle use_instance_id_netlist=False)
This returns a CircuitComponent object where you could access several properties, one of which the composed_name.
To know which ones to access please do: dir(my_wdg) in your IDE.
If you want to use the set_property() method try the following from the CircuitComponent object:
my_wdg.set_property("Name", new_name)

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

Giulia

[jvela018]

Hi @rickygill00 ,

Without a snippet of the code I can't know why this is failing but here are my two cents.

As @gmalinve pointed out there are two things that you'll need to do, you need to create the winding and assign a name to it. Just to reiterate over what was said, you can go through the maxwell

        winding = circuit.modeler.create_component(
             component_library="Dedicated Elements",
             component_name="Winding",
             location=[0,0],
             angle=0,
             page=("Page{}".format(1))
         )
        winding.set_property("Name", "Layer_1")

Note that the name "Layer_" needs to match the name that you gave the Windings on the Maxwell Model. In this example the create component method will simply create a component Winding with a name LLayer_1 in Page 1 of the schematics at location 0,0.

Please see https://examples.aedt.docs.pyansys.com/version/dev/examples/low_frequency/general/external_circuit.html#Finalize-external-circuit . It'll show you how to create components - not only winding but also sources.

I hope this helps