Frame Library LaTeX

In a quest of an easy way to draw structural analysis figures for my question paper, I came across this rich library StAnLi few years ago. Being highly motivated from that library, I finally decided to develop a structural analysis library of my own. You can draw beam, frame, truss, cable or arch using this library.

I have used TikZ for drawing and Lua as my primary scripting language, so you need LuaLaTeX to run this library. You can download it from here, it also includes a sample (.tex) file.

You only need these few lines of codes to draw this beam.

\begin{luacode}
	scale = 0.30;
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	O = origin();
	A = node(O, 0, 0, "A");
	B = node(A, 12, 0, "B");
	C = node(B, 10, 0, "C");
	E = { {A, B}, {B, C} };
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	P = pointLoad(A, B, 3, "g", "8", "P");
	W = distLoad(B, C, "gd", "2", "");
	L = {P, W};
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	Sa = support(A, "h");
	Sb = support(B, "r");
	Sc = support(C, "r");
	S = {Sa, Sb, Sc};
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	HD = {A, P, B, C};
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	Iab = node(A, 5, 0, "(I)");
	Ibc = node(B, 4, 0, "(2I)");
	Pt = {Iab, Ibc};
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	drawFrame(E, L, S, HD, {}, {}, Pt);
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\end{luacode}

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