pyrobotstructural

An unofficial Python wrapper for Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional, providing a clean Pythonic API for scripting structural models via the Robot COM interface.

Note

Windows-only. Requires Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional to be installed.

Installation

pip install pyrobotstructural

Or install the latest version directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/m-wolin/pyrobotstructural

Quick start

import pyrobotstructural

dll_path = r"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2026\Exe\Interop.RobotOM.dll"
pyrobotstructural.initialize(dll_path)

app = pyrobotstructural.RobotApp()
app.model.geometry.add_node(1, 0, 0, 0)

Contents

User Guide

• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Initialization
  • Creating an application handle
  • Building a model
  • Loads
  • Calculating and reading results
  • Accessing the raw COM API
• Examples
  • 01 — Initialize
  • 02 — Build geometry
  • 03 — Loads
  • 04 — View control
  • 05 — Query model data
  • 05a — Query bar results
  • 05b — Query shell results
  • 06 — Full beam example
  • 07 — Support types
  • 08 — Lattice tower
  • 09 — Cladding local coordinate systems
  • 10 — Custom sections
  • 11 — Timber roof truss

API Reference

• API Reference
  • Application
  • Model
  • Loads
  • Query
  • View
  • Enums