odb-plotter 0.1.1

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

ODB Plotter

Install with pip

pip install odb-plotter

Run the cli with python

python -m odbp

Or import to use the api

from odbp import Odb
...

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

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

• Pick License (likely either MIT or GPL3)
• Work on ergonomics: version information, help menu, license info, etc.
• Migrate to .json5 (comments in views.json5 file)
• 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
• Parametrize all relevant values in the odb_to_npz.py script
• Add 2D plotting methods
• Mayavi
  • Test/rework lighting on all sides
  • Add support for melt pool plot
  • Add support for non-temperature based plots
  • Interpolate Colors
• Rework cli.py and odb-plotter script to remove need for __main__.py

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")