Display geometric models in "three views" mode

[shenbo]

Description

we can display geometric models in three views. like below:

just add a Geometry.plot() method like Geometry.plot( basis='xyz' ) or Geometry.plot( basis='3views' )?

a simple code as below:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, sharex='all', sharey='all', figsize=(12, 12))
ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4 = axes[0][0], axes[0][1], axes[1][0], axes[1][1]

my_geometry.plot(basis='xz', color_by='cell', colors=color_assignment, axes=ax1)
ax1.set_xlabel('x')
ax1.set_ylabel('z')
my_geometry.plot(basis='yz', color_by='cell', colors=color_assignment, axes=ax2)
ax2.set_xlabel('y')
ax2.set_ylabel('z')
my_geometry.plot(basis='xy', color_by='cell', colors=color_assignment, axes=ax3)
ax3.set_xlabel('x')
ax3.set_ylabel('y')
ax4.set_visible(False)
plt.show()
plt.savefig('xyz.png')

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[MicahGale]

In engineering drawings this is commonly called an orthographic projection. One of the most important things in this set of views is that features always line up in their perpendicular views.

I like this idea but I think some more thought on the basis name is needed because it might be nice sometimes to change which is the base projection.