Visualization Interface Tool

Contents

• Overview
• Documentation and issues
• License

Overview

The Visualization Interface Tool is a Python API that provides an interface between PyAnsys libraries and different plotting backends.

The Visualization Interface Tool offers these main features:

• Serves as an interface between PyAnsys and other plotting libraries (although only PyVista is supported currently).
• Provides out-of-the box picking, viewing, and measuring functionalities.
• Supplies an extensible class for adding custom functionalities.

Documentation and issues

Documentation for the latest stable release of the Visualization Interface Tool is hosted at Visualization Interface Tool documentation.

The documentation has these sections:

• Getting started: Learn how to install the Visualization Interface Tool in user mode and quickly begin using it.
• User guide: Understand key concepts for implementing the Visualization Interface Tool in your workflow.
• API reference: Understand how to use Python to interact programmatically with the Visualization Interface Tool.
• Examples: Explore examples that show how to use the Visualization Interface Tool to perform many different types of operations.
• Contribute: Learn how to contribute to the Visualization Interface Tool codebase or documentation.

In the upper right corner of the documentation's title bar, there is an option for switching from viewing the documentation for the latest stable release to viewing the documentation for the development version or previously released versions.

On the Visualization Interface Tool Issues page, you can create issues to report bugs and request new features. On the Discussions page on the Ansys Developer portal, you can post questions, share ideas, and get community feedback.

If you have general questions about the PyAnsys ecosystem, email [email protected]. If your question is specific to the Visualization Interface Tool, ask your question in an issue as described in the previous paragraph.

License

The Visualization Interface Tool is licensed under the MIT License.

The Visualization Interface Tool makes no commercial claim over Ansys whatsoever. This library adds a Python interface for visualizing Ansys results without changing the core behavior or license of the original Ansys software.