From 5707bcc21e9ba6ef40d0e46a063bbcab5e945e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: German <28149841+germa89@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:53:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: adding __len__ to components

---
 src/ansys/mapdl/core/component.py | 10 ++++++++++
 tests/test_component.py           |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/component.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/component.py
index 402f229338..4bd35df8b7 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/component.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/component.py
@@ -471,6 +471,16 @@ def __iter__(self) -> Iterator:
         """
         yield from self._comp.keys()
 
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        """Return the number of components
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        int
+            Number of components
+        """
+        return self._comp.__len__()
+
     @property
     def names(self) -> Tuple[str]:
         """
diff --git a/tests/test_component.py b/tests/test_component.py
index aa790c4ff7..38c093fa82 100644
--- a/tests/test_component.py
+++ b/tests/test_component.py
@@ -299,6 +299,15 @@ def test_dunder_methods_items(mapdl, basic_components):
     assert [("MYCOMP1", "NODE"), ("MYCOMP2", "KP")] == list(mapdl.components.items())
 
 
+def test_dunder_methods_len(mapdl, basic_components):
+    assert len(mapdl.components) == 2
+    mapdl.components["mycomp3"] = "NODE", [1, 2]
+    assert len(mapdl.components) == 3
+    mapdl.nsel("s", vmin=1)
+    mapdl.cm("asdf", "node")
+    assert len(mapdl.components) == 4
+
+
 def test__get_all_components_type(mapdl, cube_geom_and_mesh):
     mapdl.allsel()
     mapdl.esel("s", "", "", 1)

From 8335e0c711e99f04df2b62061dadb9bf57ffe727 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pyansys-ci-bot <92810346+pyansys-ci-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:11:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: adding changelog file 3663.miscellaneous.md
 [dependabot-skip]

---
 doc/changelog.d/3663.miscellaneous.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/changelog.d/3663.miscellaneous.md

diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3663.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/3663.miscellaneous.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1765d3ae2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3663.miscellaneous.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+feat: adding __len__ to components
\ No newline at end of file