feat: Adapt PyMAPDL to common plotter

[AlejandroFernandezLuces]

Overview

This PR adapts PyMAPDL to the usage of the common PyAnsys plotter. It seems that part of PyMAPDL plotter is in another repo, so this work is partially done until I figure out how to modify this other part.

To summarize, on top of improving maintainability by keeping some common plotting code in the same location, this adds the following features:

• Change view buttons
• Displacement buttons
• Ruler widget to measure distances in the plotter
• Measure box widget
• Option to filter the meshes by a regex
• Option to add custom buttons to the plotter

Screenshot of how the plotter looks now:

Missing:

• Document and add comments where needed
• Adapt the other part of PyMAPDL
• Adapt picker to use common plotter picker

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[PipKat]

Suggested change

	_description_, by default None
	_description_, The default is ``None``.

A better description is needed here. I don't know what is meant by _description_.

[PipKat]

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	List of points of the labels.
	List of points of the labels.

.... of the labels or ... for the labels?

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Hello! 👋

Your PR is changing the image cache. So I am attaching the new image cache in a new commit.

This commit does not re-run the CICD workflows (since no changes are made in the codebase) therefore you will see the actions showing in their status Expected — Waiting for status to be reported. Do not worry. You commit workflow is still running here 😄

You might want to rerun the test to make sure that everything is passing. You can retrigger the CICD sending an empty commit git commit -m "Empty comment to trigger CICD" --allow-empty.

You will see this message everytime your commit changes the image cache but you are not attaching the updated cache. 🤓

[AlejandroFernandezLuces]

Everything seems to be working fine except for the minimal test jobs. I'm not sure what's happening there, any insights @germa89?

https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/actions/runs/9481844411/job/26125469222

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feat: Adapt PyMAPDL to common plotter · ansys/pymapdl@f820825

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