Boundary condition, load and interaction symbols are wireframes (thin lines,
no shaded cones), so they never hide the mesh or a contour plot:
- a crossed wire triangle per constrained translation, tip on the node,
coming from outside the part where the set's faces say which side that is;
a held rotation adds a smaller triangle behind it (the double mark); fixed
shows all three axes, a symmetry plane only its normal;
- forces as open-headed arrows ending on the node, as long as four support
units at one place and 2.5 over a set, so loads and supports stay in
proportion (#78); moments as an axis line and a right-handed curved arrow
(#79); contact and tie surfaces as small squares on their faces;
- a constant size on screen at any zoom (#80): the symbol unit is the size
setting (View > Symbol size, `ui.set {symbol_size}`, 14 pt by default)
times the model length a pixel spans, rounded to a quarter of a doubling;
- spread evenly on a grid a few symbol units across, so their density follows
the screen, never more than 400 per definition;
- a layer of their own on the desktop (GPU and CPU): zooming rebuilds and
uploads the symbols only, never the mesh's scene; framing leaves them out;
- colour per kind from the theme's tokens (a new contact colour), and the
definition selected in the browser drawn in the selection colour, wider;
- depth-tested against the model with the line bias that keeps them on their
own surface; a load at a reference point or a single node and a reference
point's cross are drawn over the part (#78).
Headless pictures (MCP screenshot, `ui.render`) frame the camera first and
draw the symbols at the default size for it.
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mesh.tet.generate and mesh.planar stacked a second mesh on a meshed body;
mesh.hex.*, mesh.hex.octree and mesh.cells wiped every body's mesh. All of
them, and mesh.mirror for its image bodies, now go through replace::clear:
the body's old elements and the nodes only they use go, other bodies stay.
The reply reports replaced {body, elements, nodes}, stale_sets (sets that
listed the old labels) and results_cleared; the command is one undo step.
replace::MESHERS names the bodies each mesher fills, and replacement()
says what a run would replace, for the app to ask first. mesh.block stays
additive: a body is built from several blocks. Refs #267.
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The ~40 parameter checks give a ProblemKind instead of text; Session::execute looks the problem
up in the command's form (a group's missing field becomes that field's own path). Replies still
name keys; forms phrase the same problem by label. A test refuses every field of every form and
checks each refusal names a field of that form.
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Problem::phrase serves both for_agents and for_form. A required name says "enter a name", a
path "enter a path", anything else "required" (no more "Autosave: enter an autosave"). New
kinds for what commands check (positive, range, list, name, path, invalid), and refine() to
look a command's problem up in its form.
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The first look at a solved static step draws the von Mises contours on the
true geometry; the deformed shape comes when asked for (Deformed,
results.deformed, results.animate), at the automatic scale. Frequency steps
still open on mode 1 deformed and explicit steps at true scale, as the
owner's notes in #77 ask; a 0.24 mm deflection drawn as 10 mm no longer
reads as a failed part.
Fixes#77
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The distance and the target follow from the eight corners' exact
projections, for orthographic and perspective cameras and any direction of
view, so a long beam seen side on fills the width instead of a sphere
around it the height (#147). The free part is given as fractions of the
view, so overlays can be left out (#76); a margin is kept on each side.
Camera::fit is fit_in over the whole of a square view, and the headless
renderer fits to the picture's aspect.
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It changes when file.open, file.recover or file.sample replaces the session
and when geometry.open opens another design file or starts a new model; an
edit, a solve or reopening the same design keep it. The desktop app frames
the view on that change (#233).
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Zoomed in on the hex20 crank arm, the element edges and the shaded faces
did not meet (#260). The mesh is conforming; the display drew each hex20
face and edge as straight chords between corners while the mid-side
nodes lie on the curved surface (up to 0.44 mm off the chord at 3 mm),
and drew the geometry's face boundaries from the design tessellation,
off both.
Now a quadratic face is cut into triangles whose vertices are its
corners and mid-side nodes, each edge is drawn as its two halves, and
over the mesh the geometry's edges (and a hovered design edge) are drawn
as the element edges on geometry edges (`DisplayEdge::feature`), so
faces, edges, feature lines and the highlight share their vertices.
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`quality::conformity` checks a solid mesh for cracks: the free faces must
close up (every corner edge on exactly two), no two distinct nodes may
coincide, and every element edge has one mid-side node. The hex tests
assert it for every method, hex20 included, and the crank arm sample's
7274 hex20 is conforming (#260: the disjoint lines are a display issue).
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file.recovery.list gives each entry's age; File › Recover shows name, age and counts, newest
first, with Discard all. docs/formats/fieldcraft.md states the folder and pruning rules.
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The analysis stages in order (geometry, seeds & partitions, mesh, material, section, sets,
boundary conditions, loads, step, solve, results), each done, next, todo, blocked or optional,
with the command that does it. Built on the command requirements; Solve also reads the model
check's first error.
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Field gains `help`: one or two sentences of our own wording with a
typical value (yield stress: the initial yield, 276 MPa for 6061-T6,
250 MPa for mild steel; hardening modulus explained; and so on), set
next to each field in cmd/forms.rs. Dim::name gives the dimension
("stress"), Field::unit_label the unit or, with no unit system, the
dimension in brackets, and Field::help_text the tooltip with the unit or
where to set the unit system. The JSON Schema description carries the
help too. A test checks every form field has help and every dimensioned
field shows a unit or dimension in every system.
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mesh.tet.generate, mesh.hex.*, mesh.hex.blocks and mesh.cells give every
seed on the open design to their meshers, which match them to their own
curves by position, so a seed on an edge two cells share holds in both. The
tet reply gives, per seed, the mesh edges along it. Docs and the roadmap
say what is honoured where.
Fixes#230.
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schema::Problem now holds the &'static Field it is about and a ProblemKind
(Required, NotANumber, Below, Above, NotAChoice, UnknownVariant, ...).
Problem::for_form phrases it by the field's label, Problem::for_agents by
its JSON path, from the same data. The form no longer rewrites problem
text by string matching or re-walks the field tree; field_at moves to
schema.rs for the engine's own Param errors. The forms test matches
EngineError::Param { key, .. } directly.
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Seed design edges by their persistent names with a count or a size, a bias
and a constraint; one undo step each, saved with the model. Seeds on edges a
reopened design lacks are reported as stale.
Part of #230.
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The viewport keeps each drawn body's B-rep edges; with Select: Edges a click
picks the nearest visible one (before and after meshing), hover and the
selection draw it wide, and multi-select works as for faces.
Part of #230.
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A design edge is named by its faces' persistent names, sorted and joined by
`|`, numbered `~k` by position when several separate the same faces. The
names follow the faces through a design edit and a partition replay.
Part of #230.
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file.sample crank-mirror partitions the crank arm on its symmetry plane, sweeps
one half all-hex (hex20) and mirrors it into one conforming mesh, then defines
the crank-arm model. Samples may now run preparing commands (datums,
partitions) before their script sees the bodies. Its test checks the halves
alike and joined, every element valid and the sets on both halves; the heavy
test solves it: sigma_xx at the root -62.43 / +62.43 MPa against M/Z = 62.5.
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A symmetry condition (zero normal displacement, zero rotation about the
in-plane axes) on a datum plane normal to X, Y or Z, with its set given or made
of the open design's faces on the plane (a partition's cut faces), so half a
symmetric part is solved as a half. Half a 40 mm bar cut at its mid-width, with
the condition and half the load, bends as the whole bar to 2e-12 with half the
reaction. Inclined planes are refused as not supported yet.
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The bodies' elements are reflected across a datum plane (or a point and
normal) with fieldcraft_mesh::mirror and joined on it. The image is tagged as
the design's body at the reflected place (found by volume and centroid, or
named in `as`), its faces with that body's faces under them, so sets by face
name reach both halves. Half a bar meshed hex8 or hex20 and mirrored has the
whole bar's node and element counts and volume, and its bending deflection to
1e-12; tet4 and tet10 mirror valid and conforming.
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Each cell (a body of the open design) gets its own method: structured hex where
one fits (auto falls back to tet and says why), or tet. All go into one mesh.
Cells on either side of a partition are joined: where their element faces
match node for node the nodes are merged; otherwise (hex next to tet, or
different divisions) the two partition faces get a set each and a dual mortar
tie, the reported hex-tet transition. A 40 mm bar cut in half, one half hex,
the other tet, stretches F L / (E A) to 1e-6.
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Datum planes draw as a hatched square around the model, axes as a line through
it, each with its name, in the desktop viewport and the headless render. The
browser's Geometry node lists the datums and the partitions with the datum
each cuts by.
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Datum planes by principal plane and offset, three points, or point and
normal; datum axes by principal axis, two points, or point and direction.
geometry.partition cuts the open design by a datum plane and keeps the
partition in the model, so geometry.open, file.open and undo cut the design
again. Requirements, forms and the Prepare entries are wired; features.md
lists them as ready.
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CommandSpec gains `requires: &[Requirement]` (crates/engine/src/requirement.rs): an open
design, geometry, nodes, a mesh, something to analyse, materials and sections for the
elements, sets, the definition an edit or delete acts on, a step, a result. Session::execute
checks them before running, so a command missing one fails at once with no partial work,
naming each missing piece and the toolbar entry that provides it ("Needs a material —
Properties › Material"). Requirements are real prerequisites (the model's own reference
checks and model.check's rules), never a workflow order. engine.commands / list_commands
list them.
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geometry.open with "model": "new" cleared the model but kept the session's
file path, so File > Save wrote the new model over the previous one. The path
and the revision saved there (which document the session is) were not part of
the undo state. A step now records the document when its command changed it:
the new model is untitled and unsaved; undo restores the old file and its
clean state, redo the untitled model (or the file it was saved to since).
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Opening a design over a model kept its mesh and every definition silently,
even when the design was another part (#145, #114). geometry.open now takes
`model`: "keep" (default: same-design reopen keeps the mesh and sets that
follow persistent face names) or "new" (clears mesh, definitions and
imported surfaces, keeps the unit system). The reply says whether the design
is `related` to the model's geometry references and lists `stale` mesh
bodies and sets. One undo step either way.
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The heavy test asked the upright's top to grow within 2 % of free thermal
expansion; the clamped bore holds it back by 2.1 % on the Linux CI's tet mesh,
which differs from macOS's (#115). 3 % still catches a wrong expansion
coefficient or temperature.
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Plane strain, plane stress and axisymmetric models take contact pairs and
general (self) contact on the linear edges of tri3 and quad4 elements:
edges oriented out of their elements, the edge mortar of fem with the
thickness or 2 pi r in the weights, the element's area over the edge's
length as the thickness under it, and the in-plane rows of the tangent
blocks. Verified by the contact patch test in plane strain and
axisymmetric (to 1e-9 small sliding, 1e-4 finite), Hertz's line contact
on quad4 edges (Johnson 1985, 4.3; equal to the hex8 model's to 1e-5),
and a hybrid rubber C-ring closing on itself that moves node for node as
the one-layer solid ring.
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file.sample crank-arm: a 170 mm 6061-T6 crank built in SolidCraft
(crates/engine/samples/crank-arm.json), swept along z by mesh.hex.generate
as 7274 hex20 elements of 3 mm (scaled Jacobian min 0.17). The hex variant
drops the pocket floor fillet and boss chamfers, and its root arcs meet the
bosses 20 degrees off tangent so the arm's top face has no zero-angle cusp.
The square bore is fixed and 1500 N acts on the pedal hole; the faces are
picked by their surfaces, not their names. Its heavy test matches the root
bending stress to M/Z = 62.6 MPa within 3 % (0.3 % in practice).
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file.sample bracket-hex: the corpus bracket split into 30 SolidCraft cells,
meshed by mesh.hex.blocks as one conforming hex20 mesh of 3 mm, clamped at
the upright and loaded at the foot. The sample's script finds the clamp and
load faces in every cell that has them. Its test matches the tip deflection
of a fine tet10 solution within 1 % and checks the clamp carries the load.
Closes#166
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file.sample heated-bracket: the corpus filleted bracket in steel, tet10, its
hole bores clamped, the upright's end held at 120 C and the rest cooled by
still air; one coupled temperature-displacement step. Its test checks the
temperatures against the heater and the air, then warms the bracket evenly,
clamps one hole, and matches the free thermal expansion alpha dT times the
distance from the hole along x.
Closes#165
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file.sample flow-past: air at 25 mm/s past the upright L-bracket in a box of
2.5 mm lattice cells (Re 83), inlet, outlet, a no-slip floor and slip walls;
the fluid step reports the force on each named face. Its test holds the
drag coefficient on the upright's frontal area between 1 and 3.5 (2.3) and
the lattice's mass change under 1 %. No picture: the viewport does not draw
flow results yet (M12).
Part of #164 (its streamlines wait for a flow display in the viewport)
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file.sample rubber-seal: a gasket ring of hybrid hex8 elements in four
mapped quarter blocks, squeezed 2.5 mm between plates bonded to it
(nonlinear static, Mooney-Rivlin rubber). Its test frees the plates and
matches the closed form for incompressible uniaxial compression within 3 %,
and bounds the bonded ring's extra stiffness. The plates are prescribed
displacements until implicit contact (#161) can press it into a groove.
Closes#163
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file.sample drop-test: an L-bracket standing on its foot (a SolidCraft script
in sample.rs) swept into hex8, falling 2 m onto a rigid floor tilted 15 deg;
explicit dynamics for 1 ms with gravity and plasticity. Its test checks the
mass against rho V, the impact speed sqrt(2 g h) and kinetic energy, the
energy balance and the momentum the floor takes. docs/examples.md starts
with it, and its picture is docs/media/examples/drop-test.png.
Closes#162
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A sample may carry a SolidCraft script (the corpus recipe form) whose design
opens before its commands run, and its script sees the design's bodies.
fieldcraft-engine now builds fieldcraft-geometry with its scripts feature.
The start screen scrolls its sample list, and a test keeps the file.sample
form's choices in step with the samples.
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solve.nonlinear counts the slipping nodes, solve.probe gives a secondary node's shear traction
and slip, and the results display draws contact_shear and contact_slip, contact_status coding
stick and slip.
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solve.nonlinear summarises each contact (normal force, largest pressure, closed nodes, deepest
penetration, augmentations), solve.probe gives a secondary node's pressure, gap and status per
contact, and the results display draws contact_pressure, contact_gap and contact_status. The
contact commands, the catalogue and the model docs say what nonlinear static steps do with a
pair.
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An explicit step may ask for mass scaling to a target time increment (on
a set, or the whole model): elements whose stable increment is below it
get the density that reaches it, with their lumped masses, frequency
bound and hourglass scales; adiabatic heating keeps the physical
density. The run reports the elements scaled, the added mass in all and
per section with its fraction, a warning, and the added mass's kinetic
energy in the energy account. Verified on a uniform bar scaled to twice
its increment (added mass 3×, increment doubled, a quarter of the
kinetic energy left to the physical mass). ROADMAP and parity note the
hyperelastic materials and mass scaling.
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NonlinearStatic.arc_length {constraint, max_load_factor, displacement_limit}: Riks–Crisfield
arc-length increments (cylindrical or spherical arc, tangent predictor signed by the angle
criterion, the constraint's quadratic root chosen by the angle with the last iterate), arcs
grown, shrunk and cut back as increments are. The converged state's tangent is factored for the
next predictor (LDLᵀ when indefinite); its negative eigenvalues are recorded per increment and
changes in their count are reported as limit or bifurcation points. Ends at the maximum load
factor, a displacement limit or the increment cap. Abaqus *STATIC, RIKS; LS-DYNA refuses it by
name; forms gain the arc-length group. A shallow arch of hex20 snaps through on the closed-form
path (1.9 %), both limit points found, inertia 0 → 1 → 0 between them.
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Fixes the build of develop: #171 crossed with the typed command forms, so BUCKLE lacked its
form. SOLVE_BUCKLE follows SOLVE_FREQUENCY; the step form gains the buckle variant and the
nonlinear step's imperfection group.
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