JSB to PNG

A carpet plot plot of a 2D table

A lines plot of a 2D table

A lineplot of a 1D table

JSB to PNG will take a JSBSim file as input and will then output PNG images of the tables in that file.

It will output both lines and carpet plots for 2D/3D tables. For 1D tables just line plot.

JSB to PNG is written in Python.

Instructions

Required libraries

JSB to PNG requires Python with plotly.express and plotly.graph_objects libraries (recent version).

JSBSim table requirements

Each table in the JSBSim input file that you want to graph must have name attribute in the

tag. That name will also be used a Y-axis title in the graphs. Do not have multiple tables with same name since its used in naming the image files also. For 2D and 3D tables <independentVar> tags must all have lookup attributes. Example:

                 <table name="Groundeffect normal force">
                    <independentVar lookup="row">aero/h_b-mac-ft</independentVar>
                    <independentVar lookup="column">aero/alpha-deg</independentVar>
                    <tableData>
                               0.0     5.0    15.0     90.0
                        0.0  0.0000  0.2000  0.6500  -0.2500
                        2.2  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000
                    </tableData>
                </table>

Running JSB to PNG

JSB to PNG is used from the command line with this syntax:

python jsb-to-png.py [filename]

If no filename is specified as commandline argument then jsb-test.xml is assumed.

When run, a folder will be created in working folder named same as the JSBSim input filename, but without the xml extension.

For 2D and 3D tables it will graph both a lines and a carpet plot.

In that folder PNG of the tables will be output, it will overwrite images if the folder is not empty.

Related content

Forum topic

• JSBSim tables to PNG program topic on the forum

Source code

• JSB to PNG on Github

External links

• Jiff (C++ program that does approx the same thing)