Misc Fixes (ansys#300)

* automatically addressing DMP bug

* make install_requires version explicit

* allow logging failure on collection

* fix invalid consistency check

* version bump to 0.44.12

Author: akaszynski

pyansys/_version.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # major, minor, patch
-version_info = 0, 44, 11
+version_info = 0, 44, 12
 
 # Nice string for the version
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))

pyansys/launcher.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Module for launching MAPDL locally."""
+import platform
 from glob import glob
 import re
 import warnings
@@ -512,6 +513,12 @@ def launch_mapdl(exec_file=None, run_location=None, mode=None, jobname='file',
     version = int(re.findall(r'\d\d\d', exec_file)[0])
     mode = check_mode(mode, version)
 
+    # known issue with distributed memory parallel
+    if 'ubuntu' in platform.platform().lower():
+        if 'smp' not in additional_switches:
+            # Ubuntu ANSYS fails to launch without I_MPI_SHM_LMT
+            os.environ['I_MPI_SHM_LMT'] = 'shm'
+
     start_parm = {'exec_file': exec_file,
                   'run_location': run_location,
                   'jobname': jobname,

pyansys/mapdl.py

@@ -1895,7 +1895,10 @@ def __del__(self):  # pragma: no cover
             try:
                 self.exit()
             except Exception as e:
-                self._log.error('exit: %s', str(e))
+                try:  # logger might be closed
+                    self._log.error('exit: %s', str(e))
+                except:
+                    pass
 
     @supress_logging
     def get_array(self, entity='', entnum='', item1='', it1num='', item2='',

pyansys/mesh.py

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def _parse_vtk(self, allowable_types=None, force_linear=False,
 
         if additional_checking:
             cells[cells < 0] = 0
-            cells[cells >= nodes.shape[0]] = 0
+            # cells[cells >= nodes.shape[0]] = 0  # fails when n_nodes < 20
 
         if VTK9:
             grid = pv.UnstructuredGrid(cells, celltypes, nodes, deep=False)

pyansys/rst.py

@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ def plot_nodal_solution(self, rnum, comp=None,
             comp = 'U' + comp
 
         if comp == 'NORM':
-            if dof[:3] != ['UX', 'UY', 'UZ']:
+            if dof[:3] != ['UX', 'UY', 'UZ'] and dof[:2] != ['UX', 'UY']:
                 raise AttributeError('Unable to compute norm given the DOF(s) %s'
                                      % str(dof))
             # Normalize displacement
@@ -2140,7 +2140,12 @@ def _plot_point_scalars(self, scalars, rnum=None, grid=None,
             elif element_components:
                 _, ind = self._extract_element_components(element_components)
                 disp = disp[ind]
-            new_points = disp + grid.points
+
+            if disp.shape[1] == 2:  # ignore Z
+                new_points = grid.points.copy()
+                new_points[:, :-1] += disp
+            else:
+                new_points = disp + grid.points
             grid = grid.copy()
             grid.points = new_points
 

setup.py

@@ -8,13 +8,12 @@
 
 try:
     import numpy as np
-except:
+except ImportError:
     raise Exception('Please install numpy first with "pip install numpy"')
 
 
 def check_cython():
     """Check if binaries exist and if not check if Cython is installed"""
-    path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
     has_binary_reader = False
     for filename in os.listdir('pyansys'):
         if '_binary_reader' in filename:
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ def check_cython():
             raise ImportError('\n\n\nTo build pyansys please install Cython with:\n\n'
                               'pip install cython\n\n') from None
 
+
 check_cython()
 
 
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ def compilerName():
 
 install_requires = ['numpy>=1.14.0',
                     'pyvista>=0.25.0',
-                    'appdirs',
+                    'appdirs>=1.4.0',
                     'psutil>=5.0.0',
-                    'pexpect',
-                    'tqdm',
+                    'pexpect>=4.8.0',
+                    'tqdm>=4.45.0',
                     'pyiges>=0.1.2']
 
 # MacOS can't launch MAPDL