Installation
Note
Old versions of compas_fea were installed by adding the location of a
local source folder directly to the PYTHONPATH.
If you still have such a legacy install on your system, we highly recommend
that you remove all traces of it, which means to remove compas,
compas_fea, or any other COMPAS packages from your PYTHONPATH,
because it will interfere with the proper functioning of more modern, flexible
and robust installation procedures adopted by the COMPAS ecosystem.
This also applies to old procedures for installing COMPAS packages for Rhino.
If you still have COMPAS packages registered directly in the Modules Search Path in Rhino,
please remove them.
Requirements
To use compas_fea you need to install COMPAS,
and have at least on of the supported analysis backends available on your system.
Currently, compas_fea supports Abaqus, ANSYS, and OpenSEES to various degrees.
See FE software for more detailed information.
To install COMPAS, see the Getting Started instructions in the COMPAS docs.
Install compas_fea
As with all other COMPAS packages, we recommend to install compas_fea in a conda environment.
conda create -n fea -c conda-forge python=3.9 compas --yes
conda activate fea
pip install compas_fea
Working in Rhino
If you wish to use compas_fea in Rhino, you have to add it to the installed Rhino COMPAS packages.
conda activate fea
python -m compas_rhino.install -v 7.0
python -m compas_rhino.install -v 7.0 -p compas_fea
For more information about using COMPAS in Rhino, see the COMPAS docs: https://compas.dev/compas/dev/gettingstarted/rhino.html
Working in Blender
To use compas_fea in Blender, you simply have to register the environment with Blender.
conda activate fea
python -m compas_blender.install -v 2.93
For more information about using COMPAS in Blender, see the COMPAS docs: https://compas.dev/compas/dev/gettingstarted/blender.html