- geometry.bodies lists each body's vertices; geometry.datum.point by
vertex takes the design's vertex names (labelled Vertex, not Mesh
vertex) (#346).
- geometry.centre: the point for what is picked: a vertex, nodes, a
hole's centre (cylindrical faces or circular edges), else a centroid
(#351).
- mesh.cells' form: the cells first, and a method drop-down per cell
(schema kind RefChoices) instead of JSON (#344).
- interaction.rigid_wall(.delete): rigid walls of an explicit step from
the Interactions tab, no longer coming soon (#350).
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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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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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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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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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cmd/forms.rs describes each command's parameters: model definitions (sets,
materials with elasticity, plasticity, hyperelasticity, damage, thermal and fluid
options, sections, reference points, couplings, masses, springs, boundary
conditions, loads, fluid domains, steps including nonlinear and explicit),
meshers, solvers, deck export, files and results. Tests check that every command
has a form and that a form's defaults are accepted or refused only for the
required fields left empty.
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Field, Kind, Dim and Collection describe a command's JSON parameters: numbers with
unit dimensions, choices, vectors, references to model items, groups, one-of
variants and rows. prefill, switch_variant and problems serve forms; json_schema
gives the same as JSON Schema. No command is described yet (form: None).
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Contact definitions on face sets: a pair (each surface's nodes against the
other's faces), general contact on a surface (self contact) or on every
exterior face of the solids; Coulomb friction with static and kinetic
coefficients and an exponential decay, a penalty scale and the choice to
adjust or refuse initially penetrating nodes, validated with caps. Rigid
walls of explicit steps gain friction. The check wants solid faces on
contact surfaces; sets used by a contact cannot be deleted.
fem::contact: the closest point of a triangle (Ericson) or a bilinear
quadrilateral (projected Newton) to a point, and a bucket grid of face
boxes for the global search, deterministic and bounded.
Commands interaction.contact.pair, .general, .edit, .delete and .find
(the touching parts of the mesh, with face sets and pairs made of them);
contacts in the model browser. Abaqus writes *SURFACE INTERACTION with
*FRICTION (exponential decay), *CONTACT PAIR and general *CONTACT; LS-DYNA
*CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SURFACE_TO_SURFACE and _SINGLE_SURFACE with FS, FD, DC;
Nastran refuses contact by name. The implicit solver refuses contact by
name (M7); the explicit solver refuses it until the next commit.
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