Provide analysis completion rate

[iazehaf]

Description of the feature

As a developer, I want to assess the progress of an analysis, so that I can display it in a progress bar in a user interface. Given a running analysis, it would be great to interrogate the MAPDL server to get the percentage of completion. A get_completion_rate method could return a value between 0 and 1.

Steps for implementing the feature

mapdl.solution()
mapdl.antype("STATIC")
mapdl.solve()
rate = mapdl.get_completion_rate()

Useful links and references

No response

[germa89]

Very related with #3779

[mikerife]

@iazehaf why not just pick the data off the nlhist file? nlhist

A while back I created a convergence plotter for PyMAPDL; could use the same idea but for a progress. And nlhist file should be easier to pick out the current load step time than the gst file parsing I did origianlly.
https://github.com/mikerife/Convergence-Plotter

Mike

[iazehaf]

Thank you @mikerife. I am not familiar with MAPDL and PyMAPDL. This enhancement request is about enabling a method developer, who is not necessarily a Mechanical expert, to easily get a completion rate without having to write a logic for that. I will check nlhist.