Can I use this library only to plot my truss structures?

[Martin15135215]

I want to plot my simple truss (2D) and space truss (3D). Can I use this library only for this use case?

[JWock82]

Yes: you can render a model with or without its loads without having to analyze it. Thanks, Craig Brinck

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[Martin15135215]

Thanks, I saw no examples in the documentation. However, I found it on GitHub, in the folder examples, the function

https://github.com/JWock82/PyNite/blob/90d6fdc9fab57cc46e5d088fdf620988c901b50e/Examples/Space%20Truss%20-%20Nodal%20Load.py#L70-L73

Sadly, it opens a new window instead of showing in my Jupyter notebook.

I tried than the function ViewInteractiveWidget from here https://github.com/Kitware/ipyvtklink, and changed the function Visualization.render_model to return the window value and deleted the line with window.Render()
etc., so I could, it input it into the function ViewInteractiveWidget. However, there was an error message.

My goal was when I save the ipynb as HTML or PDF etc, there is still the 3D plot in it.

[JWock82]

That doesn't seem right. What operating system are you on? Unix?

[Martin15135215]

Yes, Debian 12

[JWock82]

Hmmm... I know there was an issue someone reported between VTK and Unix. They found a solution. I'm guessing this has something to do with that. I've never had trouble with this on Windows.

[JWock82]

Have a look at issue #139 and see if it helps.

[Martin15135215]

I appreciate it, I will look into it later.