Installation on Windows machine

[Martin Siemann]

Dear Renaud and FeResPost community,

Background

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I recently started to work with Nastran/Patran after some years without it. In the meantime I made lots of progress with Python programming. The capabilities of FeResPost look great and would substantially help me for my current assignments.

Question (TL;TR)

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How can I install the package for use on a Windows (7) machine and Python? I could not find any Information in the manual.

Thanks in advance for your help - Martin

[Renaud Sizaire]

Hello Martin,

You can find information on FeResPost installation in Appendix X.A. Basically, what you need to do is:

• Download the binaries that correspond to your Python version. The file you download should be called "FeResPost_win32_4.4.2.7z" or "FeResPost_win64_4.4.2.7z". (It depends whether you use 32bits or 64bits Python.) Note that the 64bits Python extensions are available for version 3.5 or 3.6 of Python.
• You extract the content of the archive somewhere on your computer.
• You should set your PYTHONPATH environment variable so that it points to the directory that corresponds to the "FeResPost.pyd". (The directory depends on the your Python version.)
  

(The last step is not absolutely necessary, as you can specify include search directories via Python command line arguments.)

In FeResPost Python examples, each example is launched via a batch file that gives you an example of environment you need to run a specific version.

What you need to understand is that all the binaries are contained in the "FeResPost.pyd" file corresponding to your Python installation. After unzipping the archive, you can copy this file at a location that you find suitable, and erase all the other files and directories.

Regards,

Renaud

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