mastapy 13.0.0

Python scripting API for MASTA.

Mastapy is the Python scripting API for MASTA.

• Website: https://www.smartmt.com/
• Support: https://support.smartmt.com/
• Documentation: https://documentation.smartmt.com/MastaAPI/13.0/

Features

• Powerful integration with MASTA with the ability to run Python scripts from the MASTA interface directly.
• Ability to use MASTA functionality external to the MASTA software in an independent script.
• An up-to-date and tight integration with Python. This is not a lightweight wrapper around the C# API. It is specifically designed for Python and works great in tandem with other common scientific Python packages (e.g. SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.)
• Extensive backwards compatibility support. Scripts written in older versions of mastapy will still work with new versions of MASTA.

Release Information

Major Changes

• Added support for Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12.
• Debugging scripts from within MASTA has been greatly simplified. The old mastapy.start_debugging method has been deprecated and replaced by a "Calculate (Debug)" button on scripted properties.
• Performance has been greatly improved. All imports within mastapy are lazily evaluated and typing.TYPE_CHECKING has been used extensively internally to mask out imports only used for typing purposes.
• The package has been modernised. Packages now include a pyproject.toml file introduced in PEP 518 and are formatted using Black.

Minor Changes

• Adds lazy type checking to all applicable methods and properties. Type checking is only triggered if a TypeError or ValueError is raised. If an incorrect type is detected, a TypeCheckException will be raised.
• Adds typing.Optional[bool] and typing.Optional[float] as valid return types from MASTA properties.
• The old cast method has been deprecated in favour of the new cast_to property.
• Method and property documentation now has the return type on the first line.
• Adds support for a MASTA_DIRECTORY environment variable, which can be set to the path to your MASTA directory. If the environment variable is set, mastapy will automatically initialise using it.
• Adds mastapy.masta_licences which can be used as either a decorator or context manager to acquire and remove licences.
• Lots of bug fixes.