Compatibility with Ansys 2022 R2

[hzw770]

When running pyepr on ansys 2022 R2, ansys complained that it does not recognize "re(Mode(1)):Curve1". This could be related to the new version's names of the figure properties.

The way I temporarily fix this is to remove ":Curve1", and also comment out several "set_property" commands in core_distributed_analysis.py .

[zlatko-minev]

Thank you will need to look at this more carefully

Is it backward compatible?

[hzw770]

I don't currently have old ansys versions installed unfortunately. But it shouldn't matter if one just comment out line 1579 to 1587 in core_distributed_analysis.py because they just edit the figure properties?

[zlatko-minev]

For any of the backward breaking changes you can add an if statement as shown in the ansys.py file that checks the version of ansys and one one thing if old and another if new

Do you know what I mean?

[hzw770]

I see, let me try

[hzw770]

For backward compatibility: In core_distributed_analysis.py:

First, import Dispatch at the beginning of this .py from win32com.client import Dispatch

Then replace previous 1579 - 1587, by:

        _app = Dispatch('AnsoftHfss.HfssScriptInterface')
        desktop = _app.GetAppDesktop()
        _ansys_version_ = desktop.GetVersion()
        if _ansys_version_ <= '2022':
            # Properties of lines
            curves = [f"{report_name}:re(Mode({i})):Curve1" for i in range(
                1, 1+self.n_modes)]
            set_property(report, 'Attributes', curves, 'Line Width', 3)
            set_property(report, 'Scaling',
                         f"{report_name}:AxisY1", 'Auto Units', False)
            set_property(report, 'Scaling', f"{report_name}:AxisY1", 'Units', 'g')
            set_property(report, 'Legend',
                         f"{report_name}:Legend", 'Show Solution Name', False)

[zlatko-minev]

Is the code backwards compatible now?

[zlatko-minev]

Wondering if it would be safe to merge this into main, what do you think?

[landamax]

Hi, only wanted to know whether this issue will be merged to main branch soon? I really want to use an original version and not to work with some quick-fixes as comment outs and such. Also it looks like this issue breaks down the EPR analysis in Qiskit Metal.

[zlatko-minev]

You mean this PR break with Qiskit Metal use. Yes, that means it is not compatible in current form. We would want some help to fix and make not quick issues. I also have some questions in the code here too.

[zlatko-minev]

I was also a bit confused before. I now notice that this PR is pulling from main into develop (not into main)

[landamax]

Oh I didn't even notice that it pulls into develop! I noticed this issue became more inclusive: it has some fixes for calculation of q factors, specifically the surface q factor (instead of raising a NotImplementedError it actually performs the calculation, which was implemented about a year ago). Can this issue be pulled into main?

[zlatko-minev]

I tried to change it on my end but got:

Can you try on your end? Or you can close this one and reopen it with master

[landamax]

Oh I think I don't have permissions to do something like that, but I see this:

so maybe you can merge the develop branch with master after reviewing this issue.

[zlatko-minev]

Thank you for the effort on this massive update! I just merged! Hopefully there aren't any major compatibility issues, i didn;t catch any here