pylife-odbserver
A server for odbAccess to be accessed by pylife-odbclient
Purpose
Unfortunately Abaqus usually comes with an outdated python engine. So you can't access an Abaqus odb file from within modern python code using the latest packages. This python package is the client part of a client server setup to make odb files accessible from within python code using a current python version in a transparent way.
Solution
This package provides a slim server that as python software that is running
with old python versions of Abaqus (even 2.7), that can be run inside the
Abaqus python engine. It accepts command via sys.stdin and according to the
command is querying data from the odbAccess interface and returning them in a
pickle object.
The sibling package pylife-odbclient comes with a python class OdbClient
that spawns the server in the background when an instance of OdbClient is
instantiated. Then the client object can be used to transparently access data
from the odb file via the server. Once the client object goes out of scope
i.e. is deleted, the server process is stopped automatically.
Installation
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Create and activate a plain python-2.7 environment without additional packages. For example by
conda create -n odbserver python=2.7 pipInstead of
2.7you must choose the python version of your abaqus version. You can find it out usingabaqus python --version -
Run
pip install pylife-odbserver -
Set environment variables (optional)
The
odbclientwill look for your Abaqus binary inC:/Program Files/SIMULIA/<release_year>/EstProducts/win_b64/code/bin/SMALauncher.exe
and for the above Python environment in:
<repo_root>/.venv-odbserverC:/Users/<yourname>/.conda/envs/odbserverC:/Users/<yourname>/.virtualenvs/odbserver
If your paths are different, you must either specify them each time you run the
odbclient, or you can set them as environment variables as follows:[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("ODBSERVER_ABAQUS_BIN", "<absolute/path/to/your/abq.exe>", "User") [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("ODBSERVER_PYTHON_ENV_PATH", "<absolute/path/to/the/above/python/env>", "User")
You can check the above with:
[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("ODBSERVER_ABAQUS_BIN", "User") [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("ODBSERVER_PYTHON_ENV_PATH", "User")
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See the instructions in
pylife-odbclienton how to install the client.
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