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Python-based drawing tool for making sketches of mechanics problems.

Tutorial

For an introduction to Pysketcher, see the tutorial in HTML or PDF (or a simplified version of the tutorial in Chapter 9 in A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python, by H. P. Langtangen, Springer, 2014).

Citation

If you use Pysketcher and want to cite it, you can either cite this web site or the book that has the original documentation of the tool.

BibTeX format:

@book{Langtangen_2014,
  title = {A Primer on Scientific Programming With {P}ython},
  author = {H. P. Langtangen},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {Springer},
  edition = {Fourth},
}

@misc{Pysketcher,
  title = {{P}ysketcher: {D}rawing tool for making sketches},
  author = {H. P. Langtangen},
  url = {https://github.com/hplgit/pysketcher},
  key = {Pysketcher},
  note = {\url{https://github.com/hplgit/pysketcher}},
}

Publish format:

* books
** A Primer on Scientific Programming With {P}ython
   key:       Langtangen_2014
   author:    H. P. Langtangen
   year:      2014
   publisher: Springer
   status:    published
   edition:   Fourth
   entrytype: book
* misc
** {P}ysketcher: {D}rawing tool for making sketches
   key:       Pysketcher
   author:    H. P. Langtangen
   url:       https://github.com/hplgit/pysketcher
   status:    published
   sortkey:   Pysketcher
   note:      \url{https://github.com/hplgit/pysketcher}