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+#! python3
+import Sofa
+from SofaRuntime import Timer
+
+
+# This controller will extract the timer records from the simulation at each steps
+class TimerController(Sofa.Core.Controller):
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        Sofa.Core.Controller.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        # This is needed to avoid a conflict with the timer of runSofa
+        self.use_sofa_profiler_timer = False
+
+    def onAnimateBeginEvent(self, event):
+        if len(Timer.getRecords('Animate')):
+            self.use_sofa_profiler_timer = True
+        else:
+            Timer.setEnabled("cg_timer", True)
+            Timer.begin("cg_timer")
+
+    def onAnimateEndEvent(self, event):
+        if self.use_sofa_profiler_timer:
+            records = Timer.getRecords("Animate")
+        else:
+            records = Timer.getRecords("cg_timer")
+
+        step_time = records['AnimateVisitor']['Mechanical (meca)']['total_time']
+        print(f"Step took {step_time:.2f} ms")
+
+        nb_iterations = records['AnimateVisitor']['Mechanical (meca)']['StaticSolver::Solve']['nb_iterations']
+        for i in range(int(nb_iterations)):
+            total_time = records['AnimateVisitor']['Mechanical (meca)']['StaticSolver::Solve']['step_'+str(i)]['total_time']
+            CG_iterations = records['AnimateVisitor']['Mechanical (meca)']['StaticSolver::Solve']['step_'+str(i)]['CG iterations']
+            print(f"  Newton iteration #{i} took {total_time:.2f} ms using {int(CG_iterations)} CG iterations")
+
+        if not self.use_sofa_profiler_timer:
+            Timer.end("cg_timer")
+
+
+# Scene creation - This is automatically called by SofaPython3 when using runSofa
+def createScene(root):
+    root.dt = 0.01
+
+    # List of required plugins
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaSparseSolver')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaGraphComponent')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaOpenglVisual')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaPreconditioner')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaBoundaryCondition')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaEngine')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaImplicitOdeSolver')
+    root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name='SofaSimpleFem')
+
+    # Visual style
+    root.addObject('VisualStyle', displayFlags='showBehaviorModels showForceFields')
+
+    # Add the python controller in the scene
+    root.addObject( TimerController() )
+
+    # Create a grid topology of 10x10x60 centered on (0,0,0)
+    root.addObject('RegularGridTopology', name='grid', min=[-5, -5, -30], max=[5, 5, 30], n=[11, 11, 61])
+
+    # Create our mechanical node
+    root.addChild("meca")
+    root.meca.addObject("StaticSolver", newton_iterations=5, printLog=False)
+    root.meca.addObject("CGLinearSolver")
+
+    root.meca.addObject('MechanicalObject', name='mo', position='@../grid.position')
+    root.meca.addObject('HexahedronSetTopologyContainer', name='mechanical_topology', src='@../grid')
+    root.meca.addObject('HexahedronFEMForceField', youngModulus=3000, poissonRatio=0)
+
+    root.meca.addObject('BoxROI', name='base_roi', box=[-5.01, -5.01, -30.01, 30.01, 30.01, -29.99])
+    root.meca.addObject('BoxROI', name='top_roi',  box=[-5.01, -5.01, +29.99, 5.01, 5.01, +30.01], quad='@mechanical_topology.quads')
+
+    root.meca.addObject('FixedConstraint', indices='@base_roi.indices')
+    root.meca.addObject('QuadSetGeometryAlgorithms')
+    root.meca.addObject('QuadPressureForceField', pressure=[0, -30, 0], quadList='@top_roi.quadInROI', showForces=False)
+
+
+# When not using runSofa, this main function will be called python
+def main():
+    root = Sofa.Core.Node("root")
+    createScene(root)
+    Sofa.Simulation.init(root)
+
+    # Run the simulation for 5 steps
+    for iteration in range(5):
+        print(f'Iteration #{iteration}')
+        Sofa.Simulation.animate(root, root.dt.value)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()