odb-plotter 0.1.0

Python3 API for Abaqus FEA .odb Files and related Command Line Visualization Tool

ODB Plotter

Install with pip

pip install ODBPlotter

ODB Plotter Design Goals

I intend for this project to serve two purposes:

• First, implement an extensible, flexible api for accessing data within .odb files or .hdf5 files with odb data
• Second, implement a user-friendly, sane-defaults cli to allow for quick data extraction, manipulation, and visualization with no hassle

What things need to be parametrized in the CLI?

• Target File (.odb or .hdf5) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Physical dimensions (x min & max, y min & max, z min & max) --> Not stored in UserOptions
• Temporal dimensions (start time & stop time) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Mesh Seed Size (Stored with the .hdf5 in a .json) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Meltpoint (Stored with jthe .hdf5 in a .json) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Time Sample Size (N for extracting from every Nth frame) (Stored with the .hdf5 in a .json) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Location of input files (default .hdf5 directory)
• Location of any output file (default output directory)
• View Angle (By default values or Elevation/Azimuth/Roll) --> Not Stored in userOptions
• Toggle use of the interactive viewer
• Run Immediately (Set the program to run if all necessary flags are set)

Current TODOS (Waiting for the official github repo to open issues...)

• Migrate to .json5 (comments in views.json5 file)
• Create OdbVisualizer Class to implement views and plotting functionality separately
• Manage Views in a more sane way
• Update CLI to take in user input from source config file
  • Use platformdirs
• Generate default config with platformdirs on install
• Test/rework lighting on all sides
• Parametrize all relevant values in the odb_to_npz.py script
• Add 2D plotting methods
• Add support for melt pool plot
• Add support for non-temperature based plots
• Interpolate Colors
• Consider moving to mayavi

TEMP:

angle: "Top-Right-Fromt Vertex: top" (May pass in a relevant string from views.json5 or a 3-tuple of Elevation/Azimuth/Roll)

    # TODO Default
    parser.add_argument("-v", "--view")