BoxBeam

BoxBeam is a legacy Fortran-based beam calculation tool. It is compiled for Python using f2py.

Installation from source requires an active Fortran compiler (ifort, gfortran).

Downloading

Use GIT to get the latest code base. From the command line, use

git clone https://gitlab.dlr.de/fa_sw/boxbeam boxbeam

If you check out the repository for the first time, you have to initialize all submodule dependencies first. Execute the following from within the repository.

git submodule update --init --recursive

To update all refererenced submodules to the latest production level, use

git submodule foreach --recursive 'git pull origin $(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch || echo master)'

Installation

BoxBeam can be installed from source using poetry. If you don't have poetry installed, run

pip install poetry --pre --upgrade

to install the latest version of poetry within your python environment. Use

poetry update

to update all dependencies in the lock file or directly execute

poetry install

to install all dependencies from the lock file. Last, you should be able to import BoxBeam as a python package.

import boxbeam

Example

Please refer to the linked repository for further reading

Contact

• Marc Garbade

References