odb-plotter 0.8.1

Python3 API for Abaqus .odb Files and related Command Line Visualization Tool. Focused on Additive Manufacturing Thermal Transfer

ODB Plotter

Constraints:

ODB Plotter is being developed by CMML, and as such has a focus on Additive Manufacturing and Temperature Data.

Install with pip

pip install odb-plotter["all"]

Install in headless mode (data processing only)

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

Changelog

• Before 0.5.0: Did not have the Changelog here.
• 0.5.0: API Updates and better dataframe filtering
  • 0.5.1: Implement new system information (pypi tags, this changelog)
  • 0.5.2: Returning support to Python 3.8+ (type hinting)
  • 0.5.3: Patching conversion bugs
  • 0.5.4: Parametrize number of cpus for testing
• 0.6.0: Extractor improvements, ODB interface tools (iteration, receiving ODB data), re-implementation of basic 3D plots over time (including melt-pool plots). Created two-dimensional plotting capabilities
  • 0.6.1: Update notices if pyvista isn't installed
  • 0.6.2: Improve data extraction for plotting. Ensure that plotting doesn't fork-bomb
  • 0.6.3: Actually filtering 3D plots.
  • 0.6.4: Fixing Python2 Error Reporting
  • 0.6.5: Fixing Python2 Error Reporting in more places
  • 0.6.6: Fixing conversion problems
  • 0.6.7: Implementing tools for .odbs with coords in only some steps or tools for frame steps with different sizes
• 0.7.0: Improve user settings, parameterization, metadata. Let users select plotting colors, keep metadata of nodesets or spatial, thermal, temporal bounds within the .hdf5. Reqwrite CLI to use Python's cmd module and pyreadline/GNU readline.
  • 0.7.1: Data Output fixes, sane defaults, fixing typos, improved plotting, including 2D and better regard to time ranges.
• 0.8.0: Updates to how coordinates are stored in .hdf5 files.
  • 0.8.1: Updating color backgrounds for 3D images
• Upcoming:
  • 0.8.*: Updates to text and sizing of plots
  • 1.0.0: Final bug-fixing, type checking, bounds checking, etc. Hopefully coinciding with (or following) a publication.
  • 1.1.0: Improve pyvista functionality: views, gifs, non-interactive image saving, leave the viewer.