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# Re: [femm] More Batch processing/ Interfaceing

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- Subject: Re: [femm] More Batch processing/ Interfaceing
- From: Keith Gregory <k.gregory@lboro.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 08:00:06 +0100
- Cc: Lua@lboro.ac.uk
- In-reply-to: <21.c9695d5.284d74fd@aol.com>

Dave,
Lua is a new one on me too. Have a look at http://www.lua.org it looks like the language was designed do what Robin is using it for !
Keith.
to do At 19:34 04/06/01 -0400, you wrote:

> In a message dated 6/4/01 8:11:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> robin.cornelius@hirst-magnetics.com writes:

> > I know there was a lot of talk a short while ago about batch processing in
> > Femm.
> > I had my own need for batch processing now and decided to do it my self. I
> > have implemented the lua programming language into femm(3.0) and have nearly
> > completed the work on the preprocessor.
> > What this means is you write a lua script file (lua can contain control
> > loops, variables, counters, IO, maths routines etc) and call my extension
> > functions such as addnode(x,y) directly. All my extension functions are
> > essentially wrapper functions for the real femm code but this is transparent
> > to the user.
> > I am planning to also implement this in the postprocessor and have a way of
> > getting feedback from the post processor to the preprocessor so that
> > self-refining scripts can be generated or the results in the postprocessor
> > can be dumped to a file for later analysis and so many hundred runs could be
> > performed, dumping the results each time of only the data you are interested
> > in, into an external file which could then be loaded in to an external
> > analysis package matlab, excel etc.
> > The preprocessor code should be finished later this week and the
> > postprocessor code by next week.
> > Is anybody interested in this as I will make it available if there is any
> > demand.

> I would be very interested to check it out, and probably a lot of other
> people on the group would as well. This could end up being a really valuable
> contribution to the project. If you want to distribute it, a good mechanism
> might be to upload to the "files" section of the femm site on Yahoo groups.
> Permissions are set so that any member can upload and download there. The
> page is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/femm/files/
> Is there a good link you could give with respect to lua? I'm not really
> familiar with it.
> Dave.
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Keith Gregory
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Loughborough University
Phone: 01509 227025 Fax: 01509 227014
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