Welcome to ANYstructure’s documentation!

This documentation focuses on the Python API and the current public functionality exposed by the anystruct package.

For GUI documentation, see the following link:

Python

To install ANYstructure use PIP:

pip install anystructure

API basic usage:

from anystruct import api
flat = api.FlatStru("Flat plate, stiffened")
cylinder = api.CylStru("Orthogonally Stiffened shell")

See API Examples for complete flat plate, cylinder, buckling method, and project file examples. See Compact API Report Example for a compact manual/report version.

The GUI can be started by:

from anystruct import gui
gui.main()

An entry point to the GUI is also installed with PIP:

ANYstructure.exe in your python installation (Scripts).

Finite-element GUI

The finite-element workflow uses ANYsolver>=0.4.6,<0.5 and the extracted ANYmaterial>=0.2.0,<0.3, ANYmesher>=0.4.0,<0.6, and ANYfileio>=0.3.2,<0.4 packages. Its load controls route axial force, bending moment, shear force, torsional moment, and pressure to the production solver. Follower pressure is enabled only for supported nonlinear static and arc-length analyses using the Static only or Nonlinear static runtime path. Unsupported configurations and solver failures are reported directly rather than replaced by an estimate.

Model, mesh, and result viewports use the shared ANY3dView contract and can be switched live between ModernGL GPU and ANYtk3D software rendering.

Raised horizontal dividers resize the input, model, and result sections. A raised vertical divider between result text and the result canvas makes the canvas height adjustable.

Windows executable

The latest release of ANYstructure can be downloaded here:

Github releases

Install and launch the app.