TicraUtilities is a package to facilitate working with Ticra-compatible files and data objects in the Julia language. TICRA is a Danish company specializing in antenna analysis and synthesis software. Their products for analysis and design of reflector antennas (and associated feed structures) are widely regarded as standards in the antenna community. As a result, the file formats defined and used by TICRA software have also become de facto industry standards.
This package provides utilities in the Julia programming language for
- Reading, writing, and plotting Ticra-compatible cut (.cut) files.
- Reading, parsing, and writing Ticra Object Repository (.tor) files.
- Converting cut files to and from spherical wave expansion (.sph) files.
- Reading and writing so-called “station” (.stn) files.
- Reading and writing array excitation (.exi) files.
- Reading and writing “surface” (.sfc) files.
- And more…
Obviously, TicraUtilities will be of interest primarily to antenna engineers such as myself. Most of the antenna community uses Matlab or Python for their daily computing tasks, but I hope that this package, along with other anticipated efforts to come, will help to encourage more of my colleagues to take a serious look at Julia as their computing language of choice.