Docs: the crank's one-datum workflow, its gallery images and the Decompose status

examples.md and mcp.md tell the one-datum workflow and its numbers; the
crank gallery captures and Start card thumbnails are taken again on this
build; ROADMAP marks the automatic blocks of extruded cross-sections done,
and features.md's Decompose entry says what is left (3D parts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
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@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ links made with it still open): seen from below, where the pocket is. How the ha
meshed and mirrored is told under `crank-arm`.
**Look at:** the pocket from below: straight mapped rows along its sides and floor, and at each
end its corner fillets cut off by the diagonal partitions into three-sided triangle primitives;
end its corner fillets as three-sided triangle primitives, cut off by the mesher's own blocks;
the two halves, mirror images across the arm's middle.
**Check:** as `crank-arm`.
@@ -140,27 +140,25 @@ arm's top face, where any hex is degenerate). 6061-T6 (E = 68 900 MPa, ν = 0.33
bore's faces fixed, 1500 N on the pedal hole in the crank's plane, across the arm (−y). Linear
static: about 5 s to open and 7 s to solve.
The mesh is built as an analyst builds a structured one. A datum plane on the symmetry plane
(`Sym`, y = 0) partitions the crank (`Half`); the half `CrankArm/a` is cut into seven cells:
across the arm at x = 30 (the root, beyond the spindle boss), 60 and 110 (the pocket's straight
middle) and 148 (before the pedal boss), and on two diagonals (`D1`, `D2`) through the centres
of the pocket's corner fillets, radial to them so they meet the pocket wall square. Every
cell's cross-section then splits into regions that map: the half ring round each bore (an
O-grid), four-sided blocks (transfinite), and the pocket's four corners, three-sided, as
triangle primitives. Exact edge seeds (`mesh.seed.edge`) give every cut the same divisions on
its two sides, so `mesh.cells` sweeps each cell (`extrude`, hex20 of 3 mm) and merges all six
cuts node for node, and `mesh.mirror` reflects the half onto `CrankArm/b`: 7 710 hex20
elements, 37 938 nodes, all valid, scaled Jacobian min 0.37, mean 0.92, edge ratio at most 7.0
(the swept crank before: min 0.17, its free-paved middle at the pocket the worst).
The mesh needs one datum. A datum plane on the symmetry plane (`Sym`, y = 0) partitions the
crank (`Half`); `mesh.hex.generate` extrudes the half `CrankArm/a` (hex20 of 3 mm) and cuts its
cross-section into mappable blocks itself, inside the mesher (nothing is added to the model):
the half ring round each bore as four-sided blocks, the pocket's R5 corners as three-sided
triangle primitives, and four-sided blocks along the arm, split where the pocket's fillets meet
it. Interval assignment gives every block's sides matching counts, with no seeds.
`mesh.mirror` reflects the half onto `CrankArm/b`: 8 664 hex20 elements, all valid, scaled
Jacobian min 0.37 (at the corners where the root arcs meet the bosses 20° off tangent), mean
0.91. Before the mesher cut blocks itself the same crank took seven partitions and eleven exact
seeds for 0.37 (and the swept half without them: min 0.009, its middle free-paved).
**Look at:** the mesh (Prepare ▸ Mesh): rows running straight along the arm, the O-grids round
the bores, eight layers through the arm, and the von Mises contours: the bending stress grows
along the arm toward the root; the peak, 145 MPa, sits at a square-bore corner where the rigid
along the arm toward the root; the peak, 117 MPa, sits at a square-bore corner where the rigid
clamp meets the free face, a support singularity.
**Check:** σxx on the arm's sides at x = 29 mm is −62.43 and +62.43 MPa, equal and opposite as
**Check:** σxx on the arm's sides at x = 29 mm is −62.44 and +62.44 MPa, equal and opposite as
the mirror-image halves are, against the beam formula
M/Z = 1500 · 141 / (16 · 35.6² / 6) = 62.6 MPa (0.3 %); a 41 815-element tet10 solution of the
M/Z = 1500 · 141 / (16 · 35.6² / 6) = 62.6 MPa (0.25 %); a 41 815-element tet10 solution of the
full part gives 62.3 MPa. The pedal bore moves 0.75 mm down (tet10: 0.70–0.75 mm; Euler–Bernoulli
with a rigid clamp: 0.58 mm, without shear or the boss's compliance), and the spindle carries the
whole 1500 N and 255 N·m.