Month: November 2010

Polygon | reading and writing gpc files

A user pointed me to a problem when reading and writing gpc files. GPC understands two kinds of files, with or without hole-flags. Polygon supports both formats, but this was not yet documented. When using the Polygon() constructor with a filename or the read() or write() methods you may specify an optional  second boolean argument….


ncDataReader2 | 2.2.1

A new minor release of ncDataReader2 is coming. It only fixes one important bug: Numerical  attributes (like scale_factor and add_offset) were not read correctly with 2.2.0. Source and binary packages will follow soon.


Accessing external data from Modelica with ncDataReader2

This example demonstrates the use of the library ncDataReader2 to access data sets from Modelica in a way suitable for the simulation system. The access is handled via external functions from Modelica which read and interpolate the data stored in netCDF files. Dymola is used as the simulation system here. As ncDataReader2 is a simple,…


Making Windows work – free software essentials

Although working mostly with linux  I need to install or to use a MS Windows machine from time to time. Being spoiled by the large amount of software available for linux I really miss a lot of functionality on a “naked” windows computer. After the installation and update process of windows I usually install a…