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Easily link Thermo-Calc to other software programs or your own software code with one of three available Software Development Kits (SDKs).

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Software Development Kits

For users who wish to use the power and flexibility of Thermo-Calc in their own application programs, we offer three Software Development Kits (SDKs). Software Development Kits are add-on features that allow users to call Thermo-Calc functions and access the thermodynamic and mobility databases directly from within your own software codes or other software programs.

Each SDK incorporates an application programming interface (API), a programmer’s guide, and a collection of examples to help users get started.

Easy to Use

SDKs make coupling with Thermo-Calc easy, allowing for a dynamic and flexible interaction between Thermo-Calc and a user’s own code or other software programs. The basic idea behind these SDKs is that application programmers should be able to retrieve data from our tools, such as multicomponent thermodynamic data, kinetic data, properties data, and phase equilibrium results, without having to implement various sophisticated models and to perform equilibrium calculations on their own. The user is simply able to access the calculation core of Thermo-Calc with all its possibilities through the API. Documentation on each function and its syntax is provided, along with example codes.

Extract Most Quantities and Properties

Most of the quantities that are possible to evaluate in Thermo-Calc can be readily extracted using the SDKs. These quantities can be extracted under equilibrium conditions, but also for metastable or non-equilibrium states, by simply changing the status of the phases under consideration. Additionally, precipitation and diffusion simulations, as well as Property Model Calculations are also possible with TC-Python.

Examples of Quantities and Properties that Can Be Extracted through any of the APIs:

Amount and composition of phases
Phase transformation temperatures, such as liquidus and solidus temperatures
Thermochemical properties, such as enthalpy, heat capacity, heat of formation, and more
Thermophysical properties, such as thermal conductivity, density, linear thermal expansion, and more
Properties of liquids, such as viscosity and surface tension
Driving force
Diffusion coefficients
Derivatives of state functions
Partition coefficients
Invariant temperatures, liquidus-/solidus- temperatures, and composition-dependence
T0-temperature, A1/A3/A4-temperatures, adiabatic temperature, chill factors, composition derivatives of temperature, and more
Thermodynamic limits for partitionless transformations and for transformations under para-equilibrium and quasi-paracondition
and many more…

Additional Simulations and Calculations that Can Be Made with TC-Python:

Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion simulations
Isothermal and non-isothermal precipitation simulations
CCT and TTT diagrams (precipitation simulation)
Property Model calculations, such as calculation of coarsening rate, yield strength, Ms, and more
and many more…

TC-Python

TC-Python is our most powerful and popular SDK. It is a Python™ language-based SDK available with Thermo-Calc that allows users to openly couple Thermo-Calc calculations with other software. The SDK is built in the popular language Python™ to give Thermo-Calc users access to many other programs, such as numerical packages like NumPy and SciPy, which can now be used in combination with our calculations. It can also be used from within Jupyter notebooks or comparable interactive Python™ consoles. It is truly a tool for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME).

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TQ-Interface

TQ-Interface, short for Thermodynamic Calculation Interface, is designed for time-critical, computationally intensive application software that is most likely but not necessarily written in Fortran. It constitutes a collection of Fortran subroutines and functions supplied in the form of a DLL (Dynamically Linked Library). There are also C functions matching all the Fortran subroutines in order to facilitate users who wish to program in languages other than Fortran.

TQ-Interface is successfully used in the MICRESS™ software package (developed by ACCESS e.V., in Aachen, Germany), for simulation of microstructural evolution in multicomponent alloys using a phase-field approach.

TQ-Interface is only available on Windows and Linux platforms.

TQ-Interface Programmer Guide

TC-Toolbox for MATLAB^®

TC-Toolbox for MATLAB^® provides an interface to the commonly-used MATLAB^® software for scientific and engineering computing. This kit is ideal for fast realization of ideas and visualization of results during research and development activities. It does not, however, offer calculations that are as fast as TQ-Interface. Through this toolbox, more than 50 Thermo-Calc commands are made available within MATLAB^®, including a set of commands also used for communicating with the Diffusion Module (DICTRA).

TC-Toolbox for MATLAB^® is only available on Windows platforms.

TC-Toolbox for MATLAB® Programmer Guide

Consistently Maintained and Updated

The SDKs are directly linked to the underlying Thermo-Calc code, so they are updated as Thermo-Calc is updated. Thermo-Calc, and thus the SDKs, are on a two-times-per-year release cycle and customers with a valid maintenance and support subscription for the SDKs receive these updates for free.

Availability

All SDKs are available as add-ons to a Thermo-Calc license. In order to run a user-written application program using any of the SDKs, it is necessary to have Thermo-Calc and relevant databases installed. Additionally, TC-Toolbox for MATLAB^® requires a license for MATLAB^® software. If you do not already have a Thermo-Calc license or you are interested in expanding your license, please contact us to discuss which license is right for you.

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