{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/pyhextop-a-compact-python-code-for-topology","title":"PyHexTop: a compact Python code for topology optimization using hexagonal elements","arxiv_id":"2310.01968","date":"2023-10-03","proceeding":null,"authors":["Aditi Agarwal","Anupam Saxena","Prabhat Kumar"],"abstract":"Python serves as an open-source and cost-effective alternative to the MATLAB programming language. This paper introduces a concise topology optimization Python code, named ``\\texttt{PyHexTop},\" primarily intended for educational purposes. Code employs hexagonal elements to parameterize design domains as such elements provide checkerboard-free optimized design naturally. \\texttt{PyHexTop} is developed based on the ``\\texttt{HoneyTop90}\" MATLAB code~\\cite{kumar2023honeytop90} and uses the \\texttt{NumPy} and \\texttt{SciPy} libraries. Code is straightforward and easily comprehensible, proving a helpful tool that can help people new in the topology optimization field to learn and explore. \\texttt{PyHexTop} is specifically tailored to address compliance minimization with specified volume constraints. The paper provides a detailed explanation of the code for solving the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm beam and extensions to solve problems different problems. The code is publicly shared at: https://github.com/PrabhatIn/PyHexTop","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01968v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01968v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"pyhextop-a-compact-python-code-for-topology","repo_url":"https://github.com/prabhatin/pyhextop","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}