Getting started

This page is an overview of the features within pyGMS. Many of the methods shown here have plenty of configuration options. Please refer to the documentation of the individual methods to gain more information. An overview of the most important classes and their methods is given in API.

For installation instructreions see Installation. Generally, I recommend to use pyGMS together with Anaconda and jupyter.

Loading a model

Note

pyGMS currently only works with models that were saved in ASCII fromat.

To get started, import the GMS class of pyGMS and load a GMS model file.

In [1]: from pyGMS import GMS

In [2]: model = GMS('../../examples/model.fem')
Loading ../../examples/model.fem
Done!
Triangulating layers
Done!

You can display some information about to model using the info property:

In [3]: model.info
                             ../../examples/model.fem
Number of layers                                   46
Number of unique layers                             6
Points per layer                                 1881
Number of points                                86526
xlim                            (200000.0, 1000000.0)
ylim                           (6200000.0, 7600000.0)
zlim                     (-102500.104684, 4736.80127)

To check whether it was loaded correctly, we can for example plot a profile:

In [4]: model.plot_topography();
_images/plot_topography.png

Note

The ; at the end of the command is only required for technical reasons within this documentation of pyGMS.

or list the layers:

In [5]: model.layer_dict_unique.items()
Out[5]: odict_items([(0, 'Sediments'), (5, 'UpperCrustRDP'), (15, 'UpperCrustPampia'), (25, 'LowerCrust'), (35, 'LithMantle'), (45, 'Base')])

Note

The layer references are stored as dictionaries that link the layer id to the layer name. The layer_dict_unique contains the primary layers, whereas the layer_dict also contains all refined layers.

Loading variables

To accelerate pyGMS, variables are not loaded into the model when initiating an object. The available variable names are stored in the field_dict of a pyGMS model:

In [6]: model.field_dict.keys()
Out[6]: dict_keys(['X', 'Y', 'Z', 'RhoB', 'Tcond', 'Tspec', 'HeatGen', 'T'])

In order to add a variable, use the function layer_add_var(). In this case we add the temperature variable T:

In [7]: model.layer_add_var('T')