CubitPy

Utility functions and 4C related functionality for the Cubit and Coreform python interface, Especially for the creation of input files for 4C.

Usage

A tutorial can be found in the /tutorial directory.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to CubitPy, we welcome your collaboration. For general questions, feature request and bug reports please open an issue.

If you contribute actual code, fork the repository and make the changes in a feature branch. Depending on the topic and amount of changes you also might want to open an issue. To merge your changes into the CubitPy repository, create a pull request to the main branch. A few things to keep in mind:

• It is highly encouraged to add tests covering the functionality of your changes, see the test suite in tests/.
• CubitPy uses black to format python code. Make sure to apply black to the changed source files.
• Feel free to add yourself to the CONTRIBUTORS file.

Installation

CubitPy is developed with python3.12. Other versions of Python might lead to issues. It is recommended to use virtual environments with python. On Debian systems the following packages have to be installed

sudo apt-get install python3-venv python3-dev

Now a virtual environment can be created (chose an appropriate directory for this, e.g., /home/user/opt)

python -m venv cubitpy-env

The created virtual environment can be loaded with

source cubitpy-env/bin/activate

From now on we assume that the virtual environment is loaded. To install cubitpy go to the repository root directory

cd path_to_cubitpy

And install cubitpy via pip

pip install .

If you intend to actively develop cubitpy, install it in editable mode

pip install -e .

To run CubitPy it is required to set an environment variable with the path to the Cubit directory. This should be the "root" directory for the installation.

export CUBIT_ROOT=path_to_cubit_root_directory

To check if everything worked as expected, run the tests from within the tests directory

cd path_to_cubitpy/tests
pytest -q testing.py

If you intend to actively develop CubitPy, please make sure to install the pre-commit hook within the python environment to follow our style guides:

pre-commit install