Add example for plotting with plots.jl

[TheFibonacciEffect]

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Show how the PointEvalHandler can be used to evaluate the solution for plotting using Plots.jl in the case of the heat uquation.

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[KnutAM]

Thank you for the suggestion. However, in my opinion, this is not a recommended way to plot an FE solution in Ferrite, so we shouldn't recommend that in the docs.

FerriteViz.jl aims to make such plots easy (but currently unfortunately requires using a development branch).

[termi-official]

I think maybe we can still add this to the how-to section and elaborate in detail why this should not be used in general.

I will try to update FerriteViz in the meantime.

[TheFibonacciEffect]

I think it shouldnt be used generally, because you would have to find a way to sample from the more complex geometries and display it with plots.jl, which is what FerriteViz should be used for instead.

However I think it would be nice to add it, because it shows how to sample from a solution, which is important for solving optimization problems involving FEM. I couldnt find an example for that in the docs yet.

Explaining in more detail on why it shouldnt be used and pointing to the relevant branch FerriteViz, would be nice, but I am new to Ferrite, so I dont have the knowledge to write a section like that. So someone else would need to do that. To me however it seems evident why this shouldnt be used in general, more complex cases in which either FerriteViz (once its updated) or Paraview would be better used (especially 3D).

[termi-official]

Thanks for elaborating. It was not ment to offload writing up this section to you, no worries.

However I think it would be nice to add it, because it shows how to sample from a solution, which is important for solving optimization problems involving FEM. I couldnt find an example for that in the docs yet.

Sorry, I think I do not understand. Is there something missing in https://ferrite-fem.github.io/Ferrite.jl/stable/howto/postprocessing/ (which should be visible from https://ferrite-fem.github.io/Ferrite.jl/stable/howto/) or do you have something different in mind? If you want to solve optimization stuff with FEM (or PDEs in general), then I would highly recommend you to take a look into adjoint methods, as this might, without further knowledge about your specific form, make you optimization problem easier to handle.

[TheFibonacciEffect]

Yes, true, youre right its definetly there.