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That is fantastic, thanks! So many gems in your blog.

I'm curious if there is any way of doing a linearly varying load in OpenSees. My understanding is no right now, but I could have missed something.
Linearly varying loads are seen a lot in foundations, and it would be fun to use OpenSeesPy for this design task.

Hey, I'm looking to create a wrapper of the OpenSeesPy package that includes dostrings. The dream is that this will automatically be generated from the .rst files. Basically convert this: https://github.com/zhuminjie/OpenSeesPyDoc/blob/master/src/ZeroLength.rst To this: https://raw.githubusercontent...

There are tutorials here that show using OpenSeesPY with functions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scemwqZ ... 9a7bqFN6zG

(disclaimer - I recorded those..)

Hey Michael, Thanks for your response on github and here. This works perfectly. I forgot you could use the eleResponse command with additional arguments. For anyone else reading, the following command will do what I want. out = op.eleResponse(1, 'section', '1', "fiberData" ) For most non-f...

Hey,

Maybe a little late, but the pip version is currently updating.
The get rendering is updated on github but not pip.

If you manually install the files everything should work!
Hopefully the pip version will be updated soon.

Cheers,
C.

Hey, Right now OpenSeesPy needs to be updated to python 3.8. The new version should be up sometime in the next two weeks or so. If you are using anaconda, you can create a python 3.7 virtual environment and run OpenSeesPy there. something like: conda create -n yourenvname python=3.7 anaconda conda a...

Hey Michael
Thanks for your response.

That makes sense - would that output would be through a recorder command, or is there any output command for fibre locations?
i.e. sectionFiber(eleTag, secNum) = [fibre_x, fibre_y, fibre_z]

What about non-fibre sections/elements?

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a convenient way to get the section geometry for an element already in a OpenSeesPy model. I'm working on a few post-processing scripts for OpenSeesPy. If I knew of a way to get section info about an element, it would be possible to plot thickened elements and do a w...

Micheal, that is incredibly useful to know about the fibre sections! I spent my entire masters degree thinking it was not possible to recorder individual fibers in OpenSees. I'm wondering what the scope is for string arguments? For example, it seems like for the node recorder, using ints in python w...