v0.60.0

v0.60.0 Release Notes

With the release of v0.60.0, we improve both the licensing check and patch the distributed memory parallel usage bug on Windows when running under a VPN. Other features and bug fixes for this release include:

Features

• Refactor logging to use a global logger for the library while tracking individual instances. Critical for tracking output from multiple instances of MAPDL.
• Add extended examples to our documentation.
• Add license check. Automatically watch the license debug file and include this in the raised exception when MAPDL fails to connect. Helpful for debugging failed starts, especially on VPN.
• Improve and extend existing inline-functions. Permit direct interface to MAPDL to allow for mute=True or NOPR.
• Add ip parameter on the launcher.

Bug-Fixes

• Patch NOPR usage. Disable whenever possible to avoid conflicting behavior when using pymapdl interactively.
• Use Windows MPI by default when launching MAPDL on Windows.
• Patch CDWRITE and other file operations to account for both local and remote execution.
• Wrap CMATRIX

Miscellaneous

• Variety of code refactoring to better follow PEP8 standards through flake8
• Improved documentation build performance.
• Usage of autoformatter black
• Add VM3-5 to the examples
• Use numpydoc for our documentation.

Thanks all for contributing!

• @jleonatti
• @germa89
• @jgd10