plxscripting

Python files required to interact with PLAXIS API. These files are created by Seequent/Bentley (owner of PLAXIS) and distributed as part of the PLAXIS installation. The goal of this repository is simply to store this files to ease the CEMS development pipeline.

Installation

To install simply run:

$ pip install plxscripting

Or for a particular version (e.g. 1.0.2):

$ pip install plxscripting==1.0.2

Compatibility tables between Plaxis program version and repo version

Each version of this repository is compatible with one (or more) versions of the PLAXIS 2D and 3D programs. Below you find two tables containing the known compatibilities, so you can install the version you need depending on the PLAXIS program you need to use.

Contribution

Developer's note

Every time a new PLAXIS version is released, a new version of the plxscripting directory and the encryption.py file is released/included in the PLAXIS installation. Theses files are typically located under a directory similar to:

C:\ProgramData\Seequent\PLAXIS Python Distribution V2\python\Lib\site-packages

where Seequent used to be named Bentley in the previous versions and V2 will have a different index.

The contribution of this repository restricts itself to:

• Copy the copy these files to plxscripting directory and the encryption.py under the src of this repository.
• Make a new release using the same version as in the file plxscripting\__version__.py.
• Updating the compatibilty tables writter in the previous section.

Environment

We recommend developing in Python3.9 with a clean virtual environment (using virtualenv or conda), installing the requirements from the requirements.txt file:

Example using virtualenv and pip to install the dependencies in a new environment .env on Linux:

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Requirements

Requirements are autogenerated by the pip-compile command with python 3.9

Install pip-tools with:

pip install pip-tools

Generate requirements.txt file with:

pip-compile --extra=test --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml

Update the requirements within the defined ranges with:

pip-compile --upgrade --extra=test --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml