import os
import subprocess
import json
# Assuming this script, ntop file, and json files will be in the same folde
Current_Directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath('__file__'))
exePath = r"C:/Program Files/nTopology/nTopology/nTopCL.exe" # nTopCL path
nTopFilePath = r"RelDensity.ntop" # nTop notebook file name
Output_Directory = r"C:\Users\ajayprasad\Downloads\RelDensity" # Output directory path
Input_File_Name = "input{}.json" # JSON input file name template
Output_File_Name = "out{}.json" # JSON output file name template
# Input variables in JSON structure
thickness_values = [round(x * 0.1, 1) for x in range(1, 21)] # List of thickness values from 0.1 to 2 with increments of 0.1
cellsize_values = [round(x * 0.5, 1) for x in range(1, 21)] # List of L values from 0.5 to 10 with increments of 0.5
# Iterate over each cell size value
for i, cellsize in enumerate(cellsize_values):
Inputs_JSON = {
"description": "",
"inputs": [
{
"description": "",
"name": "Output directory",
"type": "text",
"value": Output_Directory
},
{
"description": "",
"name": "Unit cell",
"type": "enum",
"value": 0
},
{
"description": "",
"name": "L",
"type": "real",
"units": "mm",
"value": 10.0
},
{
"description": "",
"name": "Unit Cell Size",
"type": "real",
"units": "mm",
"value": cellsize
},
{
"description": "",
"name": "Thickness",
"type": "real",
"units": "mm",
"values": thickness_values
}
],
"title": "Relative Density of Walled TPMS"
}
# Create input.json file
input_file_name = Input_File_Name.format(i + 1)
with open(input_file_name, 'w') as outfile:
json.dump(Inputs_JSON, outfile, indent=4)
# nTopCL arguments in a list
Arguments = [exePath] # nTopCL path
Arguments.append("-j") # json input argument
Arguments.append(input_file_name) # json path
Arguments.append("-o") # output argument
output_file_name = Output_File_Name.format(i + 1)
Arguments.append(output_file_name) # output json path
Arguments.append(nTopFilePath) # .ntop notebook file path
Arguments.append("-v2")
# nTopCL call with arguments
print("Running nTopCL with input file: {}".format(input_file_name))
print(" ".join(Arguments))
output, error = subprocess.Popen(Arguments, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
# Print the return messages
print(output.decode("utf-8"))
