User guide

In the PyDYNA installation, the docker directory has one child directory, run, which contains the necessary files to run LS-DYNA in a Docker container. The run module provides the ability to start the LS-DYNA solver without requiring any client-server library or Docker container.

Once you have results, you can use the Ansys Data Processing Framework (DPF), which is designed to provide numerical simulation users and engineers with a toolbox for accessing and transforming simulation data. DPF can access data from Ansys solver RST files and from several files with neutral formats, including CSV, HDF5, and VTK. Using DPF’s various operators, you can manipulate and transform this data.

The ansys-dpf-post package provides a simplified Python interface to DPF, thus enabling rapid postprocessing without ever leaving a Python environment. For more information on DPF-Post, see the DPF-Post documentation.