pyabaqus 1.0.14

Type hints for python scripting of Abaqus

pyabaqus

Type hints for Abaqus/Python scripting

pyabaqus is a Python package providing type hints for Python scripting of Abaqus, you can use it to write you Python script of Abaqus fluently, even without doing anything in Abaqus. It also provides some simple APIs to execute the Abaqus commands so that you can run your Python script to build the model, submit the job and extract the output data in just one Python script, even without opening the Abaqus/CAE.

Other links for this project

• GitHub repository: github.com/Haiiliin/pyabaqus
• PyPI: pyabaqus · PyPI
• Documentation: pyabaqus documentation

Related project

Abaqus Executor is an application to run your Abaqus model more fluently, check it in github.com/Haiiliin/pyabaqus-executor or check the documentation.

Quick start

Installation

pyabaqus is uploaded to PyPI, you can simply install it using pip:

pip install pyabaqus

You may install the latest development version by cloning the GitHub repository and use python to install from the local directory:

git clone https://github.com/Haiiliin/pyabaqus.git
python setup.py install

Write your Abaqus/Python script

After installing the pyabaqus package, you can start writing your own Abaqus/Python script to build your model. You can refer pyabaqus/tests at main · Haiiliin/pyabaqus for some tests of the script, for more detailed documentation, please check pyabaqus documentation.

Setup your Abaqus Environment

In order to use Abaqus command to execute the Python script and submit the job, you need to tell Abaqus where the Abaqus command located. Usually, Abaqus command locates in a directory like this:

C:/SIMULIA/Commands/abaqus.bat

You can add the directory C:/SIMULIA/Commands to the system environment variable path, or you can create a new system variable named ABAQUS_BAT_PATH, and set the value to the file path of the Abaqus command, i.e., C:/SIMULIA/Commands/abaqus.bat

Run your Abaqus/Python script

Now you can just run your Abaqus/Python script using your own Python interpreter that pyabaqus is installed.

• Create an Abaqus Model

  

• Extract Output Data