OpenSeesPyView: Python programming-based visualization and post-processing tool for OpenSeesPy

This paper presents a newly developed visualization framework called OpenSeesPyView, a Python programming-based graphical user interface (GUI) for OpenSeesPy, a prevalent finite element solver in earthquake engineering. To provide users more freedom for coding, OpenSeesPyView is weakly connected with OpenSeesPy through a model database. Users prepare the associated data to construct the numerical model in OpenSeesPy using the wrapper methods, which can save the model information and seismic responses into the model database. Then the developed tool runs to read the data from the database and visualize the model, mode shapes, time history responses, etc. In addition, it is convenient to modify and add codes to the proposed visualization framework.