Visualization Improvements

[justinngan92]

The following documents the improvements needed for the visualization (post_processing.py) module:

To visualize position of loads alongside the load effect This could be arrows for point loads; or a colored polygon for patch loads for example.

To visualize position of supports Similar to load visualization, an arrow or polygon at nodes representing support regions.

Functional plot_defo() and plot_force() when an Envelope object is supplied as input As of v0.1.1, these two functions are unable to plot Envelope xarrays (i.e. xarray of results reduced in Loadcase dimension). Some functionality additions is needed before this is possible. For example, the functions need to somehow "distinguish" that the supplied result is an Envelope xarray.

Streamline plots for transverse member Some additions could be: allow users options to automatically plot all transverse member or a selected node lines of transverse member.

Nodal averaging of load effect To average the load effect values at node points in plots - especially for force components (Mz, Fy, etc.)

edited on: 5/12/2021