Are Tecplot products supported on Apple Silicon (aka M1, M2, and M3 chips)? Yes. Tecplot 360, FieldView, Tecplot Focus, and PyTecplot all run on Apple Silicon based machines. With the release of Tecplot 360 2025 R1, 360 is now native on mac ARM chips. If you are using a version of Tecplot 360 released before 2025, you’ll need Rosetta 2 to run x86 versions of Tecplot products. If Rosetta 2 isn’t […]
Problem: I’m running into errors when I try to run PyTecplot scripts with Anaconda. Solution: PyTecplot scripts can be run with Anaconda installed after creating a new, streamlined, conda environment which does not include Qt dependencies. PyTecplot is dependent on an external package, Qt version 5.15.2 (as of 360 2021 R2) which conflicts with the version of Qt (5.9.x as of November 2021) included in the base conda environment. The […]
Problem: When I run my PyTecplot Python script, I receive a TypeError, ValueError, KeyError, or AttributeError. However, I recorded this script from the 360 user interface, or wrote it using the current Pytecplot documentation, so it should be correct. What is causing this error? For example, running a recorded script using plot.fieldmaps(6,7,8,9,10,11) with PyTecplot 1.0 gives the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\recorded_pytecplot.py”, line 17, in <module> tp.active_frame().plot().fieldmaps(6,7,8,9,10,11).mesh.show=False TypeError: […]
Problem: In batch mode, when I run my PyTecplot script using Python 3.8+ on Windows, I receive an error stating that: tecplot.exception.TecplotLibraryNotFoundError: The Tecplot batch library or one of its dependencies could not be found… What is causing this error? Solution: It is likely that you are using an out-of-date version of PyTecplot. Using PyTecplot in batch mode with Python 3.8 on Windows 10 requires version 1.1 or later. Python […]
First off, PyTecplot requires an installation of Tecplot 360 2017 R1 or later. PyTecplot is also hosted on PyPI so you simply need to run ‘pip install pytecplot’ from a command prompt. Easy as Py! PyTecplot is also included in the Tecplot 360 installation so you can install from there if you have an overzealous firewall or want to ensure the PyTecplot version you’re installing is guaranteed to be compatible […]
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