Flowsheet Visualizer How-to

See an example flowsheet

An example flowsheet is included and can be viewed with the following terminal command:

python -m idaes_ui.fv.example

Visualize your flowsheet

To use the FV to visualize your own flowsheet:

Run from within an interactive environment, including a Jupyter Notebook

# create the flowsheet and put in variable 'flowsheet'
flowsheet.visualize("Flowsheet Name")

Run from within a Python script

Add a keyword argument so the Python interpreter keeps running and the FV can still communicate with its backend:

# create the flowsheet and put in variable 'flowsheet'
flowsheet.visualize("Flowsheet Name", loop_forever=True)

Select panels to view

The default view is shown below. Note the minimize buttons () at the right of each panel.

If you click on the minimize button for the stream table, it goes away and a small button appears under the top bar labeled Stream Table+.

If you click on the minimize button for the diagram, only the title bar will show!

You can restore the panels by clicking on the {Panel Name}+ buttons.