Re: [femm] More Batch processing/ Interfaceing

[dcm3c@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/4/01 8:11:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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.