Creating an interactive dialog that contains a game loop to allow my implementation of TETRIS in ABAQUS to operate

Another brief blog post this week as I have been busy on both a coding course and a programming exercise, which, when I get it working, I shall share. Going back to my roots with a simple fluid dynamics code. So for this week I shall simply share the templates that I have made and use, with reminders in place, for making different kinds of ABAQUS scripts. Templates are great. They save you time hammering out the boilerplate and forgetting that basic detail that you are so use

For this week’s blog post a very unglamorous subject for the scripting beginner: reading and writing basic text files to and from ABAQUS and formatting the data so that appears in tabular form for use elsewhere. Not difficult, but a potential source of headaches for the beginner. There is no difference in the file operations between using Python in the ABAQUS environment and regular Python. Once you have the basics of file I/O then you can start to interrogate your models and

Sometimes user input is essential for your script... the next best to no GUI is a simple GUI. I stated in a previous post that user interfaces for your ABAQUS scripts should be avoided wherever possible because they complicate the code and make it more time consuming to change. If you really must have a GUI then the simplest one possible should be used. The most basic is a kernel dialog where the user enters data into a text box, without any kind of feedback. This was used in

Animation of some of the combinations possible using the geometry generating script. I am behind on my posting schedule – I might plead...