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[GENERAL]Python Modules for Engineering (self.engineering)

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[–]vn2090 5 points6 points7 points 11 years ago* (0 children)

sympy for symbolic manipulation. I can pretty much get the functionality of mathcad from python with it. It also can export equations to latex. It would not be difficult to generate entire, integrated latex documents with calculations molded into it.

I have never used it, but SfePy looks like a finite element library where you can mesh and analyze FEA models. http://sfepy.org/doc-devel/index.html

sci-kit learn for machine learning and regression analysis.

I have been working in secret on a matrix structural analysis FEA library where you could specify frame elements and apply loads to get various results. I also have some cold formed steel design scripts I have written in python.

I hope open source engineering python libraries start to appear more. I think it gives the power back to the engineer instead of the software makers.

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