Change window size and view point in Get_Rendering about openseespy HOT 9 CLOSED

Thanks Dr. Scott! The best way to use the model viewer is through the terminal command (Anaconda or Linux). An interactive Matplotlib window is generated by the program. You can use the mouse/click-and-hold to manually change the window size and viewing angle and save the figure in the desired orientation/zoom level.

While using Spyder (or any other IDE), change the IPython console/Graphics settings (in Preferences) to Automatic graphics backend. This will generate an interactive window instead of an inline .png image. We should mention this on the Plotting commands page.

I'll also add an option to set view angle and window size manually, just in case.

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For Jupyter notebooks, one way to do that is to write %matplotlib qt before starting the script. This will open an interactive plot window instead of an inline image. Use %matplotlib inline to switch back to inline plotting.

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Thanks, @u-anurag, that worked! But I had to install PySide2 first, but this is probably included already in Pythong IDEs. I'm working in Linux without an IDE.
pip install PySide2

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I just noticed that Anaconda installs all the dependencies of Matplotlib as a package. Qt packages (PyQt and PySide) are optional dependencies as per the Matplotlib website. I have created a pull request to update the information on the Plotting commands page.

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Should I force Qt backend in the plot_model() and plot_modeshape() functions? I don't use Jupyter Notebook a lot so I don't know if users prefer an inline plot or an interactive dedicated window. In that case, users don't have to worry about adding %matplotlib qt before running the script.

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I found that %matplotlib notebook produces an inline interactive figure on Jupyter notebook instead of a dedicated window. You should try that.

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