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Diference between pure APDL and pyansys #3928

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As @mikerife mentioned, the differences between pure APDL and PyMAPDL (PyAnsys) are due to the different averaging method because the choosen graphics.

Hi @wmpjrufg remember that MAPDL has two methods of averaging and presenting result data to be plotted: 'Full' and 'Power' graphics. MAPDL running batch defaults to Full graphics while running interactively defaults to Power graphics. PyMAPDL is a third method of running MAPDL which is a hybrid where inputs are interactive but outputs are batch. So you are comparing the Full to the Power graphics results. The values are expected to be different as the model has two parts (with distinct material, element type etc). So the averaging across …

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