RE: Python environment in plaxis

Gerardo Agustin Pittaro — Sat, 23 May 2020 08:55:09 GMT

Hi Plomp

Not sure if you are still finding the solution for this problem. To me it was not as easy as Stefanos mentioned below but I managed to install pandas in phyton for plaxis.

Below my steps.

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Plaxis. Right click on Anaconda. Properties --> Security. Then change permissions for all users.

2. On Windows Start menu search for PLAXIS Input or Output and run it as Administrator

3. Open the command prompt from Expert > Python > Command prompt

4. conda install Pandas

This will install pandas (and other modules) on phyton for Plaxis.

Hope it helps,

Cheers, Gerado

RE: Python environment in plaxis

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:19:08 GMT

Dear Thijmen,

We are currently busy implementing a way to be able to select a different Python environment. This will come in the future versions.

For now, it is not possible to change the Python environment in Input or Output programs. I would recommend using a different IDE, instead of the one delivered by PLAXIS as then you can use any custom environment needed.

Note that we deliver a Python distribution that is not directly related to Anaconda. We make sure to include a series of modules we would expect users to need for developing their scripts.

It is possible to install Python packages within PLAXIS. Please follow the steps below:

On Windows Start menu search for PLAXIS Input or Output and run it as Administrator
Open the command prompt from Expert > Python > Command prompt
New packages can be installed by using pip. For example, if you want to install the dropbox package you would type:
python -m pip install dropbox

Note that by installing Python packages, some existing modules may need to be upgraded. This might introduce issues to the Python distribution we deliver which we cannot foresee. In that case. please make sure to always make a copy of the Python folder before updating it so that you can always fall back to the version we deliver.