Getting Started

Initializing a blade object

After a successful installation, pyNuMAD can be imported in a python session in the usual way:

import pynumad

Next, to initialize an empty blade object run:

blade = pynumad.Blade()

To populate the blade with a yaml or Excel file you can run:

blade.read_yaml("path/to/yaml")
blade.read_excel("path/to/excel")

or initialize the blade with the path:

blade = pynumad.Blade("path/to/yaml")
blade = pynumad.Blade("path/to/excel")

Interfacing with other software

Depending on your needs, you might need to add installation paths for third-party software such as ANSYS, Cubit, etc… To do so, locate the file named src/pynumad/software_paths.json and modify it accordingly. Note that these paths are optional if you only need to read in a blade as described above and/or using the in-house mesher.

To Configure Cubit After downloading the main Cubit folder and placing it anywhere on your machine:

• Locate cubit.py in the main Cubit folder and add the full path to the “cubit” entry in src/pynumad/software_paths.json.

On Linux this may look something like: “/some/place/Cubit-16.10/bin/”. If Mac it may be: “/Applications/Cubit.app/Contents/MacOS/”.

• Locate PyCubed_Main.py in the main Cubit folder and add the full path to the “cubitEnhancements” entry in src/pynumad/software_paths.json.

On Linux this may look something like: “/some/place/Cubit-16.10/bin/python3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/”. On Mac it may be: “/Applications/Cubit.app/Contents/MacOS/python3/lib/site-packages/”.

To Configure ANSYS Locate the mapdl executable in your ANSYS installation folder. Then place the name of the executable along with its path in the “ansys_path” entry of src/pynumad/software_paths.json. For example, it may look like: “/some/where/ansys_inc/v222/ansys/bin/mapdl”