USD viewer usage

The Ansys Tools Visualization Interface provides a USD viewer that can be used to visualize USD stages. The viewer is built on top of the python-usd-viewer package, which provides a simple interface for visualizing USD stages.

USD viewer installation

To use the USD viewer, you need to install the python-usd-viewer package. Please refer to the USD viewer installation guide for detailed instructions on how to install the package.

USD viewer usage

Once you have the USD viewer installed, you can use it to visualize USD stages. The Ansys Tools Visualization Interface provides a USDInterface class that serves as a bridge between the USD viewer and the Ansys Tools Visualization Interface plotter.

Here is a simple example of how to use the USD viewer through the Ansys Tools Visualization Interface:

from ansys.tools.visualization_interface import Plotter
from ansys.tools.visualization_interface.usd_interface import USDInterface

pl = Plotter(backend=USDInterface())

mesh = pv.Sphere()

pl.plot(mesh)

pl.show()