Importing custom python modules for Hypermesh 2024

ActuallyAbe
ActuallyAbe Altair Community Member
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I am writing a python script that attempts to import custom python modulus that I wrote. When I run my main python script that imports these modules from within Hypermesh 2024, I get an error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'module_name_here'". Do I have to place my custom module into hypermesh's python module file library? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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  • almeidaaap
    almeidaaap
    Altair Employee

    Hi,

    What kind of modules are you creating? It´s not a recommended practice to implement your own functions in the installation folder. Maybe, just creating some functions or classes could be a better solution.

    Arthur

  • ActuallyAbe
    ActuallyAbe Altair Community Member

    I am creating modules that are located in separate python files for modularity. I could in theory implement everything in one file, but I would prefer to call on separate python files. One workaround I found was modifying the system path to search for custom directories that I would manually input.

    Do you know how to retrieve the filepath of a python script that the user would load in?

    For example in Hypermesh 2025, if they click Load→Python Script→ Select Python file, how would I retrieve the path directory of that original file location. Is there a tcl command or python api command I can call?

    Thanks

  • almeidaaap
    almeidaaap
    Altair Employee

    Got it,

    Yes, you can call the script directory, add these commands lines:

    import os
    
scriptDir   = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    
modelFile   = os.path.join(scriptDir,'..','folder1','folder2','modelfile.fem')
resultFile   = os.path.join(scriptDir,'..','folder1','folder2','resultfile.h3d')

    I hope this can help.

    Arthur

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