Python should be on your structural engineering software list for 2021

Python should be on top of your structural engineering software list as it the best Structural design software as it allows you to automate the mundane and make your analysis software more powerful by unlocking its shortcomings through automation and data manipulation.

Structural analysis software is often hamstrung but the limitations of the program, however, learning Python allows you to unlock these limitations and automate any repetitive tasks. in this video I will be covering:

Why all structural engineers should learn python
tips for learning python
and the key concepts of python's programming language

With Python, your are able to unlock the API's built into most major structural engineering software, making the best structural design software even better. This is why it should be is your top structural engineering software lists, being the best structural design aid in your structural engineering tool chest.

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My name is Brendan and I am a structural engineer with over 15 years of experience based in Australia. I have a wide variety of projects from very small to some of the biggest in the southern hemisphere. I have a passion for good structural design and teaching/mentoring.

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[ericksantamaria]

Programming is one of the things that make me proud and happy.
Im from Panama and I used to work for a company where I had the opportunity to develop a spreadsheet to model from excel to sap2000 a whole metro viaduct allowing us to reduce time of modeling complex geometry, inserting of Pys to the structural model and to automatize the assignation of live loads.
Now I want to make the switch to Python to see the advantages. Thanks for your video! 💪🏻

[nicolasramirez]

Perfect timing for me, planning on learning the basics of Python this summer. Thanks Brendan, from the US!

[alvarofue]

Great content! I remember taking a course in the University called "Computation applied to engineering" or something like that. There we learnt Fortran and I was blown away by the speed compared to other high level programming like Matlab. I liked Fortran a lot, because it was meant to do mathematical calculations and was very "engineer friendly". Probably Phython is in the same league.

[Sampx]

Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. I've been learning Matlab and Mathcad but I am going to include Python in the list.

[reborn]

totally agree on this. During the current digital or data era, learning a programming language is important for engineers. Its basically a modern language, it can be used to optimize working process or implemented into structural analysis that require repetitive calculations or loops. AND its super useful for someone participating in software devlopement that is related to engineering field.

[alanemarson]

Hi Brendan, we use Python as part of our engineering software already - videos still getting better and better btw!

[Cesar-ekyw]

You can save a lot of time in boring and monotonous stuff, and spent your time, thinking or creating more tools, for example in etabs I was able to save 30 minutes, that I used to spent in each design in order to set up all the variables, elements, combination, seismic forces, wind forces, materials and section definitions etc... Edit: thank you for your effort and knowledge, I loved this chanel

[SustainableDreams]

Thank you! Very quick and easy explanation of the different libraries! been learning Python for a month now and nobody had sad it so simply!

[reymichaelestela]

Hi Brendan, thank you for this content. I'm a Civil engineer in a 3rd world country, and it's really hard to find like-minded peers in my country. I always feel lost whenever I find myself wanting to program/automate my tasks but my co-workers would always cancel my efforts simply because they can't digest all the innovations a programming language can offer. Currently, I'm very confident with my excel skills and I can also do VBA as well but I know excel is not enough. being a fellow Engineer engaged in construction, you have inspired me, it really meant a lot to me. Thank you

[takundatapfuma]

I hope to learn python in the near future, i wasted a lot of time at uni🤧. Much appreciated Brendan.

[adamiacobaccio]

Great video Brendan. I took an intro to programming in Python elective during my final semester at uni and wish I had been offered the course at the start of my degree. It really is such a powerful and relatively accessible language. Hope you can get into more detail of how you use Python in your workflow in future videos.

[mujtabaahmadi]

Thanks for the video. I think it is always great to have an example to support the claim.

[gerardodacruz]

Thanks Brendan. I am currently learning Python not only to learn how to code but to eventually to apply FEA on it

[DeepakKrishna]

Great content Brenden, it will be helpful if you could show some examples how Python can be applied in Structural engineering.

[fredio]

The stock footage you used is super hilarious/out of place :-D But dude, object oriented, not object orientated! Best thing about Python is formatting your code with exponential indentation. It really highlights when you've got stuff nested too deeply :-D

[peteverhoeven]

JavaScript/AppScript! I used to be an excel zealot, now I love Google sheets!

[deyuhao]

Thanks Brendan for sharing the knowledge. Could you please say a bit more about working with Etabs using python? There's not much info in Etabs' API documentation. Much apprecaited.

[hemantprakashbim]

SIR PLEASE MAKE A SERIES ON USES OF PROGRAMING TO STRUCTURAL SOFTWARES LIKE ETABS TO EXCEL THROUGH PYTHON

[structuralanalysis]

Another very useful video. Thank you . Personally, I have been using Matlab to manipulate the excel sheet data such as importing the data from excel sheet, running certain loops in Matlab, processing and then exporting the result into the excel file again. It saved a hell lot of time. It would be so much helpful if you upload some videos showing actual data manipulations.

[rogerfuentes]

Nice content! keep goin im learning the easy way with your videos