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Getting started with classes in Python Part 5: `classmethod` and `staticmethod`

james.derrick@ansys.com | 12.03.2024

This series continues by exploring two notable exceptions to the self parameter for methods, classmethod and staticmethod.

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Aligning external imported data with your Mechancial Model via Python scripting

jimmy.he@ansys.com | 11.20.2024

This article walks users through creating coordinate systems from the coordinates of three non-colinear points, and then using two coordinate systems to align the external imported data with the current Mechanical model. This tool allows users to eliminate the guesswork from the alignment process and improve the accuracy of data alignment.

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Getting started with classes in Python Part 4: Hashing & Mutability

james.derrick@ansys.com | 11.18.2024

Part-four of this series sees us move from the "basic" knowledge required to understand classes and into more "intermediate" topics - starting with mutability of dataclasses.

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Getting started with classes in Python Part 3: Methods and properties

james.derrick@ansys.com | 11.05.2024

Part-three in a ten-part series, this article introduces adding methods to your data classes.

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Getting started with classes in Python Part 2: `dataclasses`

james.derrick@ansys.com | 10.29.2024

Part-two of this series covers constructing one of the simplest and most useful types of class, data classes and the reasons you may want to do this in the first place.

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Getting started with classes in Python Part 1: Anatomy of a Class

james.derrick@ansys.com | 10.18.2024

In Python you may hear this phrase said a lot "everything is an object", which they are! Objects, that is.

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Getting started with classes in Python

james.derrick@ansys.com | 10.17.2024

Understand the basics of programming in Python but heard a lot about "classes" without being sure what they are or how they'd be useful to you? This article series is for you.

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PyAnsys Sound is now available!

Ansys Developer | 09.23.2024

Introducing PyAnsys Sound! A python library for Ansys Sound users.

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Using Machine Learning to predict analysis solve times from local data: Part 2

mark.capellaro@ansys.com | 09.18.2024

Part two (of two) in Mark's series on using machine learning to predict analysis solve times focuses on using scikit-learn to estimate your solve times.