filleted-bracket-blocks splits the bracket with SolidCraft's Split Body
into three slabs across its width, the fillet corner halved along its
diagonal and a four-cell O-grid round each hole; the corpus runner meshes
partitioned parts as one conforming block mesh. A heavy test clamps the
upright, loads the foot and checks hex8 and hex20 converge (hex20 tip
deflection within 0.1 % of a fine tet10 solution). Roadmap M5:
conforming interfaces done.
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Geometry triangles remember their surface (body); the viewport and the
headless pictures draw each body of a multi-body design, such as the
cells of a partitioned part, in its own colour from the theme (eight in
turn), and a single body in the geometry colour as before.
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Meshes the open design's bodies (or the listed ones) as the cells of one
conforming all-hex mesh with one size and tessellation tolerance for all;
elements carry their cell's body, boundary faces its B-rep faces. A cell
that is no block, or cells that touch without sharing whole faces, is an
error naming the bodies. Catalogue entry with its VectorCraft icon, the
MCP mesh tool's hex_blocks method, docs/features.md.
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hex_mesh_cells meshes cells that meet face to face (SolidCraft split
bodies) as one conforming all-hex mesh: each cell a mapped block after
smoothly meeting faces are joined (virtual topology: the halves of a hole,
a plane running into a fillet), vertices, edges and faces shared by
identity, interval assignment over all cells, each shared face meshed
once, radial edges graded off curved faces. finish spans several cells:
tags per cell, hex20 mid-edge nodes shared across cells, a closed
2-manifold boundary and no free internal face.
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Theory cases for the nonlinear solver, each frozen as a fixture: uniaxial
stretch of a neo-Hookean block to twice its length (closed form), the
nonlinear patch test on a distorted hex8 mesh, a quarter turn of the same
mesh (objectivity: zero stress), the elastica of a hex20 cantilever at
P L²/(E I) = 1, 2, 5, 10 against Bisshopp–Drucker (0.2–0.5 %), and the
inflation of a thick neo-Hookean tube by a follower pressure against
Rivlin's closed form (0.08 % at the bore). A finite-strain Cook's membrane
is pending its transcribed reference. docs/fem.md describes the
formulation, the material point interface, the follower-pressure choice and
what nonlinear steps refuse; the literature, parity and roadmap pages
follow.
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solve.nonlinear follows a nonlinear static step in load increments: dead
loads and prescribed displacements ramp with the load factor, a pressure
follows the deformed faces (its load stiffness symmetrised so the
supernodal Cholesky stays), the consistent tangent is refactored every
iteration with an optional line search, and an increment converges on
force, displacement and energy together. Increments start from the
extrapolated last one, grow after fast convergence and are cut back on
inversion, a non-finite or growing residual, an indefinite tangent or too
many iterations; the step stops cleanly at the minimum increment, the
increment cap or the Newton iteration limit. Elements are assembled in
parallel in label order (same bits on any thread count). Results carry
Cauchy stress, logarithmic strain, the increment history and a displacement
frame per increment, which results.frame and the results panel show.
Trusses, shells, beams, plane stress, incompatible modes, temperature and
centrifugal loads are refused by name; couplings warn that they stay
linear.
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The material point interface returns the Kirchhoff stress and the spatial
tangent of its Lie derivative from the deformation gradient, with per-point
history committed by the solver: St Venant–Kirchhoff (pushed forward from
S = D E) and the decoupled compressible neo-Hookean with its isochoric and
volumetric parts. Total Lagrangian solids (tet4, tet10, wedge6, hex8, hex20
full and reduced) and plane strain and axisymmetric elements give internal
forces and the consistent tangent with its geometric stiffness; hybrid
solids use the Simo–Taylor–Pister three-field formulation on the existing
pressure fields. Incompatible modes and plane stress are refused by name.
Follower pressure on faces and 2D edges with its load stiffness. Every
tangent is checked against central differences of its forces.
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A nonlinear_static procedure (nonlinear geometry, initial/min/max increments,
increment and iteration caps, force/displacement/energy tolerances, line
search), validated with caps against hostile values. Materials gain an
explicit hyperelastic option (decoupled compressible neo-Hookean on the
isotropic constants). Abaqus writes *STEP, NLGEOM, INC / *STATIC with the
increments and *HYPERELASTIC, NEO HOOKE; LS-DYNA writes the ramped implicit
run with full Newton and *CONTROL_IMPLICIT_AUTO; Nastran refuses SOL 400 by
name, as LS-DYNA does hyperelastic materials in nonlinear steps. Explicit
dynamics refuses hyperelastic materials by name; solve.run names the solver
still to come.
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The results start on the undeformed shape (scale 0) and the deformation
swings, eased, from 0 to x150, back and out again, one picture per frame.
The video ends on a 60-frame camera orbit round the deformed beam
instead of cuts between views. The results camera is drawn back so the
contour legend leaves the beam clear, and each stage holds 2-3 s.
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A band under the window names the tool behind each stage (open, mesh,
batch, check_model, solve, show_results). caption.py draws the bars in the
standard library from the interface's Inter SemiBold (OFL): a minimal
TrueType glyf reader, a non-zero scanline rasteriser and a zlib PNG
writer, unit-tested with python3 -m unittest. ffmpeg pads each picture
and composites the bar with its overlay filter.
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The setup's symbols (fieldcraft_render::glyphs) are built with the display
data and drawn over the model in every style, at the drawn nodes (a results
plot's deformed shape), muted over results; the clipping radius holds them.
Theme tokens give their colours in light and dark. The browser's Loads & BCs
and Interactions rows get eye toggles (ui.set show_loads, show_interactions),
also in the view menu. The GPU viewport draws reference point names with the
interface's font; the bottom left says which definitions are sampled.
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view::scene draws the boundary conditions, loads and interactions as the
viewport does (muted over a results plot) and frames them; Shown.sampled and
the MCP picture info's sampled_symbols list definitions drawn with a sample.
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glyphs::Glyphs picks where a model's setup symbols go (resolving its sets
once, thinning them on a grid, capping each definition and sampling large
ones with a note) and draws them into a Scene at the nodes' current
positions: cones for constrained translations (and rotations where nodes
rotate), arrows for forces, double-headed arrows for moments, arrows normal
to pressure faces, one arrow for gravity and body forces, a curved arrow for
centrifugal loads, crosses with names for reference points, lines for
couplings, hatched squares for rigid walls. Colours come from the caller by
role, muted over results.
Scene gains labels, drawn by the CPU rasterizer with a small bitmap font of
its own.
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resolve_set_partial resolves the members of a set that are on the mesh, for
display: a set with a missing member still shows what it has, where
resolve_set refuses it. rotational_nodes is the check's rule for which nodes
have rotations (shell and beam nodes, not those of 2D sections), so the
viewport's symbols and the check agree.
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A command run by a script, the control channel, MCP, the command search
or the browser left the ribbon on whatever tab it showed, so an agent's
session never showed the stage it was at. `catalogue::stage_tab` is the
rule, from the catalogue: a command's entry tab, none for the Tools tab
(files, history, the model summary). The app follows it after a command
that changed the model or the results display (queries leave the ribbon
alone); a script follows its last command with a stage. A ribbon click
runs a command of the tab shown, so it never moves the ribbon: a test
checks every entry and drop-down command against its tab.
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The demo used the corpus I-beam, which is extruded along z and so stood
upright. A new corpus part, cantilever-i-beam, is the same section on the
YZ plane extruded along x, web upright: a sweep along a horizontal axis
for the meshers, and a cantilever that bends downward on screen. The
i-beam part is unchanged (its corpus row and the meshing tests keep it).
The demo clamps it at x = 0 and loads the free end with 1000 N in -z
through a kinematic coupling, and now checks the solution against beam
theory and stops when it is off: tip deflection (bending plus shear)
within 3 %, root bending stress (stress_xx along the top flange,
extrapolated to the root, nodes from the Abaqus deck) within 2 %.
docs/meshing/corpus.md regenerated with the new part.
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A factor of 0 was refused, so a picture sequence swinging the deformation
out from the undeformed shape had to start at a small factor or switch
`show` off. 0 is now a factor like any other (the view stays deformed), and
the results panel no longer works around the refusal. The MCP show_results
docs say so, beside `deformed: false`.
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`ui.view` and the MCP `screenshot` tool only turned to the named views, so
a picture sequence could only cut between them. `Orientation` (render) is a
camera orientation in degrees, {yaw, pitch, distance?}, checked as hostile
input: angles finite, distance finite and above 0, yaw wrapped, pitch
clamped to ±90, distance to 0.001–1e9. `modelcraft_engine::view::orientation`
parses it from JSON for both callers:
- control channel `ui.camera {yaw, pitch, distance?}` turns the app's camera;
- MCP `screenshot {camera}` turns it first (bridged through `ui.camera`,
headless in the CPU render, framed unless a distance is given). `view` and
`camera` are not given together.
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Crates fieldcraft-*, binaries fieldcraft and fieldcraft-cli, the .fieldcraft file (format tag
fieldcraft/1, manifest fieldcraft.json), FIELDCRAFT_* environment variables, the MCP server
name, egui widget ids (fc_*), the app icon document FieldCraft.icon and its generated family,
docs and licences. No compatibility shim: no files of the earlier name exist.
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An I-beam cantilever from the corpus is opened, hex meshed, defined, solved and shown with von
Mises contours and a swinging deformed shape, every step an MCP tool call bridged to the
desktop app and every picture the MCP screenshot of the window; ffmpeg encodes the MP4 and GIF.
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Main's oracle job failed at 8cba3a7: scordelis-lo-roof-solid u_z moved from
-0.3014029226397275 (blessed before #50) beyond its 1e-9 band. The case is a
thin shell (R/t = 100) of one layer of hex20R solids, ill-conditioned, so
rounding alone moves u_z by about 1e-9 relative: on macOS #50's multithreaded
supernodal factorisation moved it by 8.2e-10 (to -0.3014029223929), #52's
interpolation order by a further 1.3e-10 (to -0.3014029223541), and Linux
CI by slightly more, past the band. #52 kept the lattice geometry the same.
The result itself is unchanged at the 1e-9 level (0.33% from the
reference).
A quantity may now set `fixture_relative` (with a required
`fixture_reason`) for a wider fixture band; Scordelis-Lo uses 1e-7 and is
re-blessed. Moved-fixture messages print full precision.
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The pending 2D LE1 case becomes a real one; the plasticity cases stay
pending with what they still need (static J2 for the collapse pressure,
the transcribed measurements for the Taylor bar).
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A four-sided planar patch at z = 0, meshed by the Coons transfinite
interpolation of its edges for plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric
sections: the elements fill a named face of the body, edges and corners
carry names, patches join edge to edge (the join check treats the edges of
2D elements as their sides).
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The large-deformation explicit core of #42 (objective stress rates, updated
kinematics) moves the bar wave and rigid-wall impact results by a few 1e-4
relative; both still pass their references (u_end 0.034%, rebound KE
-0.54%). Fixtures updated deliberately for that change.
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Weld and face-to-face check move from the mesh.block command to
modelcraft_mesh::join (bounding-box-limited weld, grid-binned hanging-node
test), for node merging and imports to reuse. mesh.block and
mesh.tet.generate share fresh_labels. The block map evaluates each edge
curve once per lattice parameter; vector helpers come from vec3; tet10 and
hex20 mid-side nodes follow ElementKind::edges. Session::run_script returns
each step's output, which the oracle reads instead of its own loop.
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The oracle binary (modelcraft-testkit) runs each case's recipe through the
command engine, measures its quantities by JSON pointers into step outputs
or commands, compares them with the cited references and the frozen
fixtures, and writes docs/oracle.md. 20 theory cases (patch tests of every
solid element, Timoshenko cantilevers, Lame, Kirsch, beam frequencies,
torsion and bending through couplings, explicit waves and impact, CDT
invariants), 8 published benchmarks (MacNeal-Harder patch, straight and
curved cantilevers, thick cylinder, Scordelis-Lo with solids, NAFEMS LE1,
LE10, FV32) and 10 pending cases with citations.
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A structured mesh of a six-sided block from its corners, with circular
and elliptical edges (Gordon-Hall transfinite interpolation), grading,
named faces, edges and vertices as geometry tags, and joining to the
existing mesh face to face (refused otherwise). solve.probe takes "at"
points and reports the nearest node with a result.
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- model: materials gain solver-neutral plastic (bilinear isotropic/kinematic,
hardening table, Johnson-Cook with adiabatic heating), damage (Johnson-Cook
D1-D5) and erosion (plastic strain); explicit steps gain nonlinear_geometry
(default on) and stress_rate (jaumann | green_naghdi).
- fem: rotation (Hughes-Winget, Flanagan-Taylor), plasticity (radial return,
capped bracketed Newton for Johnson-Cook, damage; the update takes the
mechanical strain increment so thermal strains can be subtracted), closed-form
hex8 gradients for deformed configurations.
- explicit: updated Lagrangian hex8/tet4, per-element material state, erosion
with reported energy, plastic work in the energy account.
- solver: warns that the linear solver uses the elastic constants of plastic
materials (results hash-identical).
- decks: Abaqus *PLASTIC (+ Johnson-Cook keywords), Nastran MATS1/TABLES1,
LS-DYNA *MAT_PLASTIC_KINEMATIC / *MAT_PIECEWISE_LINEAR_PLASTICITY; what a
format cannot express is reported as Unsupported.
- engine: model.material.plasticity, model.material.damage (catalogue ready),
explicit element probe, eroded elements in the solve summary.
Step commits before the rebase onto the DOF framework: branch explicit-x2-steps.
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docs/formats/tagged-mesh.md defines the exchange: 3MF Core with an optional
ft:face attribute per triangle (and ft:faces per object) in a ModelCraft
namespace. modelcraft_geometry::tagged_mesh::read_3mf reads it from bytes
(wasm), capping every size and count and range-checking every index and
coordinate. geometry.import.mesh adds the surfaces to the session, which keeps
them beside the open design and restores them when a command fails.
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A pure-Rust CAE modeling workspace following the SolidCraft conventions:
- modelcraft-model: nodes and elements by label with hostile-input validation
- modelcraft-geometry: SolidCraft's kernel (pinned git dependency) behind our own API;
tessellation into a face-tagged boundary surface for volume meshing
- modelcraft-engine: CommandSpec registry, Session::execute with rollback and panic guard,
scripts and a journal
- modelcraft-cli: list commands, run scripts
- xtask: layers (only geometry may use solidcraft-*), assets, licences, tests, wasm, ci
- AGENTS.md, architecture, ADR 0001 (libraries and licences), roadmap, CI
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