RE: Bulk processing Plaxis results from multiple files

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:32:49 GMT

Hello Zhenhe,

Any reason why not running it from any Python IDE, such as SciTE we deliver?

Your code can be like the following:

import subprocess

# setting constants
plx_input_path = r"C:\Program Files\Seequent\PLAXIS 2D 2023.1\Plaxis2DXInput.exe"
plx_output_path = r"C:\Program Files\Seequent\PLAXIS 2D 2023.1\Plaxis2DOutput.exe"
plx_input_port = 10000
plx_output_port = 10001
plx_pass = r'YOUR_PASSWORD'

# launch PLAXIS application with port and password
plx_i = subprocess.Popen([plx_input_path,
                          "--AppServerPort={}".format(plx_input_port),
                          "--AppServerPassword={}".format(plx_pass)])

# Launch Output program
plx_o = subprocess.Popen([plx_output_path,
                          "@",
                          "--AppServerPort={}".format(plx_output_port),
                          "--AppServerPassword={}".format(plx_pass)])

# boilerplate for Plaxis remote scripting server
from plxscripting.easy import *
s_i, g_i = new_server('localhost', plx_input_port, password=plx_pass)
s_o, g_o = new_server('localhost', plx_output_port, password=plx_pass)

projects_to_run = [r'D:\Projects\Project_1.p2dx', r'D:\Projects\Project_2.p2dx', r'D:\Projects\Project_3.p2dx']

# for-loop that has code that will run for all projects; here projects are in a list
for project in projects_to_run:
    print('Running: {}'.format(project))
    s_i.open(project)
    g_i.Project.echo()  # command for Input
    g_i.view(g_i.Phases[-1])
    print(g_o.getresults(g_o.Phases[-1], g_o.ResultTypes.Soil.Uy, 'node')[-1])  # command for Output
    s_i.close()
    s_o.close()

plx_i.terminate()    
plx_o.terminate()

If you want to use a different Python file per project, then it can be that the Command Prompt you are launching is not using the python.exe we deliver but another one you have installed on your PC.

I would recommend that you navigate to the PLAXIS Python distribution we deliver and start the Command Prompt via the pycmd.bat (batch file) we have created:
C:\ProgramData\Seequent\PLAXIS Python Distribution V2\python\pycmd.bat