DE-LA-MO

The De-la-mo website can be found at http://thermal.cnde.iastate.edu/de-la-mo.xhtml

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE OBSOLETE DE-LA-MO V1 REPOSITORY. You probably want de-la-mo v2, which no longer requires the Acis solid modeler, nor swig, nor a compiler.

On-line documentation and installation instructions are located at http://thermal.cnde.iastate.edu/de-la-mo/index.html

De-La-Mo is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. It is published under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE.txt file for details

Repository Organization

• `doc/': Contains documentation source code
• `scripts/': Contains Python helper scripts for building De-la-mo models
• delamo/: Contains the python package delamo
• examples/: Contains example python scripts which demonstrate how to use delamo
• examples/data/: Contains data files used in the example scripts
• src/: Contains C++ source code for the ModelBuilder tool. This tool is accessed from python using a SWIG-generated interface
• src/swig/: Contains SWIG source code for the ModelBuilder tool
• src/testcases/: Contains C++ source code for the ModelBuilder test cases
• CMake/: Contains CMake helper scripts

Quickstart Build Instructions

1. Acquire requirements listed at http://thermal.cnde.iastate.edu/de-la-mo.xhtml
2. Run CMake on the CMakeLists.txt in the repository root directory. It is generally the best practice to build into a new directory.
3. make && make install

Installation Structure

• scripts/ Contains Python helper scripts for building De-la-mo models

• delamo/ Contains the python package delamo which is ready for import by the python scripts.

  This directory also contains the SWIG-wrapped ModelBuilder library and extra shared libraries required for functionality (e.g., SpaACIS.dll on Win32).

• examples/ Contains copies of the python scripts from <repository root>/examples/ directory.

• examples/data/ Files from <repository root>/examples/data/ are copied here.

How to Run De-la-mo

Each of the Python scripts in the examples/' directory can be run directly from a Python interpreter. This will create a subdirectory with the _output' suffix containing the generated CAD model (.sat' file) and generated Python script for ABAQUS (.py' file). Run the generated `.py' file inside ABAQUS/CAE to perform the desired analysis.

The 'delamo_process' utility (in the `scripts/' directory) can be used as a helper to assist in running De-la-mo scripts. It is especially helpful for multi-step processes such as automated damage insertion.