Description

FEM-Design is an advanced and intuitive structural analysis software. We support all aspects of your structural engineering requirements: from 3D modelling, design and finite element analysis (FEA) of concrete, steel, timber, composite, masonry and foundation structures. All calculations are performed to Eurocode standards, with some specific National annexes.

The quick and easy nature of FEM-Design makes it an ideal choice for all types of construction tasks, from single element design to global stability analysis of large buildings, making it the best practical program for structural engineers to use for their day to day tasks.

Scope

The python package is mainly focus on fdscript automation which will help you in automatise processes as running analysis, design and read results.

Note: the FEM-Design connection via FemDesignConnection uses Win32 named pipes and therefore requires Windows + pywin32. On macOS/Linux you can still install the package and work with the generated XML/database objects, but you cannot control the FEM-Design desktop application through pipes.

The construction of the Database object is currently out of scope as it is delegated to the users. Database is based on xml sintax and you can use library such as xml.etree.ElementTree to manipulate the file.

Example

from femdesign.comunication import FemDesignConnection, Verbosity
from femdesign.calculate.command import DesignModule
from femdesign.calculate.analysis import Analysis, Design, CombSettings, CombItem


pipe = FemDesignConnection()
try:
    pipe.SetVerbosity(Verbosity.SCRIPT_LOG_LINES)
    pipe.Open(r"simple_beam.str")

    static_analysis = Analysis.StaticAnalysis()
    pipe.RunAnalysis(static_analysis)

    pipe.RunAnalysis(Analysis.FrequencyAnalysis(num_shapes=5))
    pipe.Save(r"simple_beam_out_2.str")

    pipe.Detach()
except Exception as err:
    pipe.KillProgramIfExists()
    raise err

A wider list of examples can be found in example

Documentation

https://femdesign-api-docs.onstrusoft.com/docs/intro