adamspy

adamspy is a python package designed for CAE analysts who use Adams to automate manipulation of files and data outside of the Adams environment.

Tip

See aviewpy for a library that workis inside the Adams View environment.

Installation

pip install adamspy

Setting Environment variables

Before importing adamspy into your python script you need to set some environment variables to allow adamspy to communicate with your adams installation. Here are the the environment variables you need to set.

Variable	Value
ADRILL_USER_CFG	Full path to the user adrill cfg file (e.g. C:\users\user_name.adrill.cfg)	Optional
ADRILL_SHARED_CFG	Full path to the shared adrill cfg file (e.g. C:\MSC.Software\Adams\2018\adrill\adrill.cfg)	Optional
ADAMS_LAUNCH_COMMAND	Full path to the adams launch command (e.g. C:\MSC.Software\Adams\2018\common\mdi.bat)

Usage

The adamspy.postprocess package and its submodules likely contain the most useful tools in this library.

Here is an example of getting results from an Adams results .res file

from adamspy.postprocess.ppt import get_results
result_file = 'example.res'
t_min = 70
t_max = 80
reqs_to_get = {}
reqs_to_get['MSE'] = ['Instantaneous_Bottom_MSE', 'Filtered_Surface_MSE']
reqs_to_get['ROP_controls'] = ['Command_ROP', 'True_WOB']
requests, units = get_results(result_file, reqs_to_get, t_min, t_max)

Adams Drill

The adamspy.adripy package contains tools for automating Adams drill.

Note

Adams Drill was discontinued in 2023

Please see the documentation here: https://bthornton191.github.io/adamspy/#